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Inspire Session

Session: Seed initiatives for change: how do transformational pathways emerge?

INS 17-8 - Future climate resilience visions of New York City: 2100

Thursday, August 18, 2022

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM EDT

Location: 520A

Presenting Author(s)

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Elizabeth Cook

Barnard College
New York City, New York, United States

Co-author(s)

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Jennfier Ventrella

The New School
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Timon McPhearson

Urban Systems Lab, The New School, New York, United States
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Adam Parris

NYC Mayor's Office of Climate and Environmental Justice
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David Iwaniec

Georgia State University, United States
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Lelani Mannetti

Georgia State University
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Tischa Munoz-Erickson

International Institute of Tropical Forestry, USDA Forest Service, United States
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Daniela Tagtachian

City University of New York
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Melissa Tier

Princeton University

Future urban resilience to pressing climate challenges depends on diverse and transformative solutions. Co-developing solutions across multiple perspectives can address the complexities and interdependencies within urban systems. Drawing on co-produced knowledge and positive future visions of New York City (NYC) in 2100, we present scenarios developed during participatory workshops with NYC practitioners to envision a resilient and climate-adapted city. We build on a framework of transformative capacities needed to achieve future visions and highlight the value, as well as tensions, of participatory processes in developing transformative and anticipatory capacities and a diversity of future transitions toward a climate resilient future.