Integrating Urban Resilience Systems – The SETS Approach

Originally aired December 7, 2015

The concept of resilience has been evolving as a way to address the challenges cities face from a changing climate. Social, ecological, and technological domains — with different but intersecting perspectives — underlie the concept of resilience. In this third session of the “Along the Urban Path” series, ASU faculty and other leaders examine the SETS (Social, Ecological, Technological Systems) approach, exploring how all three systems must be addressed together to select actions that improve resiliency and minimize unintended consequences.

Speakers

Dr. Ann Kinzig (Moderator)

Chief Research Strategist; Professor, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University

Dr. Ann Kinzig is Chief Research Strategist and Director of Research Development for the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability and Professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on ecosystem services, conservation-development interactions, and the resilience of natural-resource systems, with projects examining conservation-development trade-offs in developing nations and the resilience of pre-historic landscapes in the American Southwest.

Kristin Baja

Climate and Resilience Planner, Office of Sustainability, Baltimore City

Kristin Baja is the Climate and Resilience Planner with the Office of Sustainability at Baltimore City, responsible for development and implementation of the City’s Disaster Preparedness Project and Plan (DP3), which integrates climate adaptation with hazard mitigation efforts. Before joining Baltimore City, she worked for the City of Ann Arbor developing their Climate Action Plan and Sustainability Framework, and has been involved in climate and resilience planning with cities throughout the United States.

Dr. Clark Miller

Senior Sustainability Scientist; Associate Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University

Dr. Clark Miller is a Senior Sustainability Scientist and Associate Professor at the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University. His research and teaching focus on the governance challenges posed by global environmental change, with a particular emphasis on energy transitions and the role of knowledge and expertise in global environmental governance.

Tischa A. Muñoz-Erickson

Program Manager, Urban Field Station, International Institute of Tropical Forestry

Tischa A. Muñoz-Erickson’s research focuses on urban sustainability governance, particularly the role of knowledge systems and social networks in decision-making and governance, and the visions underlying sustainability plans and actions. As Program Manager of the International Institute of Tropical Forestry’s Urban Field Station and San Juan ULTRA program, she works to establish linkages between sustainability and social-ecological scientists across cities in the Caribbean and Latin America.