SSCI 165Lgw Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ebird, Social Capital, Precautionary Principle
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Historical antecedents of resilience: cities inherently vulnerable, not new: fire, famine, disease, nuclear attack, earthquake, war. Resilient cities: able to maintain functions and structure in face of internal/external shocks, dual-use tech, (cid:862)(cid:271)oun(cid:272)ing for(cid:449)ard(cid:863) Approaches to risk: anticipation (trial w/o error) Urban resilience pillars: econ capital, social capital, enviro capital, adaptive governance. Key role of ict: cities are where dense networks of info & comm (ict) technologies converge, allen(cid:271)y"s rise of (cid:862)cogniti(cid:448)e city(cid:863) Geospatial data: digital renderings of where things are on surface of earth, in atmosphere, below surface, or in ocean, ability to combine physical and social data, pgi vs. vgi. Pgi professional geographic information: fieldwork: census data; building footprint, embedded/mobile sensor: traffic; air quality, remotely sensed: vegetation; elevation. Vgi volunteered geographic information: cro(cid:449)dsour(cid:272)ed: (cid:862)(cid:272)itizens as sensors(cid:863); ebird; itrees, ambient (agi): tracking protests; social capital, soft gis.
