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This research analyzes resilience strategy documents for United States cities that participated in the Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) program. The empirical subjects of this study are the 22 United States cities where resilience strategies were completed as of May 2021. Using fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA), this research investigates whether there is a relationship between: 1) a city's Chief Resilience Officer's (CRO) professional training; 2) the threats identified in each city's resilience strategies; and 3) whether or not the strategies emphasize equity priorities. Because of the focus on a joint causal system, the fsQCA method allows interaction effects among each characteristic, rather than holding constant a set of independent variables to ascertain the effect of a cause on a dependent variable. This research therefore seeks to ascertain whether certain types of identified threats, in combination with a CRO's professional background, relate to the prioritization of equity in resilience strategy documents. The results of the analysis by intermediate solution shows two causal condition combinations (or recipes) relating to equity as a priority. First, equity was more likely to be a priority in places with a CRO who was not trained in the social sciences. Second, equity was also more likely to be a priority in cities that identified climate and natural hazards as well as infrastructure and non-environmental challenges. Our analysis suggests that analyzing both the contents of resilience strategies and the leadership involved in the development of said plans is an important contribution to the field, especially as we collectively grapple with how best to confront myriad and evolving challenges of the 21st century.

2022

Krisenbewältigung
Krisenbewertung & Lagebild

Cowell, Margaret
Cousins, Tiffany

Cities

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10.1016/j.cities.2022.103946