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As climate change becomes a more obvious existential threat to many communities, sharper tools are needed to analyze policymaking and especially the variations in effective adaptive planning. While policy creation, preparedness and disaster management are essentially local activities, much analysis simply focuses on cities and overlooks robust tools to understand what happens within communities of all types. This paper explores the local state, an analytical framework which can connect our understanding of state, market and civil society within communities below the level of the nation state. The local state concept is resurgent within the academic literature and this paper shows the potential of this analysis, drawing on empirical examples of climate change adaptation from Tucson AZ and New Orleans, coupled with broader discussion from several countries.
Andrew Kirby. Analyzing climate change adaptation policies in the context of the local state. Environmental Science & Policy 2021, 123, 160 -168.
AMA StyleAndrew Kirby. Analyzing climate change adaptation policies in the context of the local state. Environmental Science & Policy. 2021; 123 ():160-168.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAndrew Kirby. 2021. "Analyzing climate change adaptation policies in the context of the local state." Environmental Science & Policy 123, no. : 160-168.
The paper uses bibliometric methods to explore the production of knowledge in the field of climate change from 1991–2019. Using the Web of Science database, we demonstrate the growth of publications in the field, including papers in mitigation, adaptation and resilience. Using VOSviewer software, we show the connections between these subfields and the journals in which they are published. The analysis displays clusters of publications in different subfields and minimal convergence of research in STEM fields and the social sciences. We suggest that this lack of convergence may reflect a relative shortage of interdisciplinary research which may in turn have negative outcomes in terms of research and policy.
Rachel Einecker; Andrew Kirby. Climate Change: A Bibliometric Study of Adaptation, Mitigation and Resilience. Sustainability 2020, 12, 6935 .
AMA StyleRachel Einecker, Andrew Kirby. Climate Change: A Bibliometric Study of Adaptation, Mitigation and Resilience. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (17):6935.
Chicago/Turabian StyleRachel Einecker; Andrew Kirby. 2020. "Climate Change: A Bibliometric Study of Adaptation, Mitigation and Resilience." Sustainability 12, no. 17: 6935.
Purpose: Identifies a hierarchy of information and argues that professional knowledge has marginalized ‘local knowledge’. Methodology/Approach: In a review of recent research, the paper offers examples of how ‘wicked problems’ (from obesity to climate change) impose different burdens on different communities, which foregrounds the value of residents’ experiences. Findings: In an era of climate change, adaptive planning must incorporate ‘local knowledge’, which may return to older technologies and established practices. Research Implication: The paper argues that ‘local knowledge’ can be ‘powerful knowledge’, as discussed within educational research, which has important implications for school and college curricula. Originality/Value of paper: Amateur experts, citizen observatories and crowd sourced data can all play significant roles within communities facing new forms of risk and hazard.
Andrew Kirby. Reconstructing Powerful Knowledge in an era of climate change. Revista Produção e Desenvolvimento 2020, 6, 1 .
AMA StyleAndrew Kirby. Reconstructing Powerful Knowledge in an era of climate change. Revista Produção e Desenvolvimento. 2020; 6 ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAndrew Kirby. 2020. "Reconstructing Powerful Knowledge in an era of climate change." Revista Produção e Desenvolvimento 6, no. : 1.
Andrew Kirby. https://sustainability.hapres.com/htmls/JSR_1098_Detail.html. Journal of Sustainability Research 2019, 1, 1 .
AMA StyleAndrew Kirby. https://sustainability.hapres.com/htmls/JSR_1098_Detail.html. Journal of Sustainability Research. 2019; 1 (2):1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAndrew Kirby. 2019. "https://sustainability.hapres.com/htmls/JSR_1098_Detail.html." Journal of Sustainability Research 1, no. 2: 1.
In a recent Volume of this journal, authors Sakao and Brambila-Macias ask if we "share an understanding of transdisciplinarity in environmental sustainability research?". This response to their timely question argues that while transdisciplinarity is highly desirable, the accepted goal of incorporating multiple stakeholders in research projects (T2) may be problematic due to the heterogeneity that this introduces. This challenge is explored in two case studies taken from sustainable urbanism research, one focused on green gentrification, the other upon urban food production. The paper concludes with an endorsement of a sequential program of T1 and T2 research.
Andrew Kirby. Transdisciplinarity and sustainability science: A response to Sakao and Brambila-Macias in the context of sustainable cities research. Journal of Cleaner Production 2018, 210, 238 -245.
AMA StyleAndrew Kirby. Transdisciplinarity and sustainability science: A response to Sakao and Brambila-Macias in the context of sustainable cities research. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2018; 210 ():238-245.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAndrew Kirby. 2018. "Transdisciplinarity and sustainability science: A response to Sakao and Brambila-Macias in the context of sustainable cities research." Journal of Cleaner Production 210, no. : 238-245.
This article offers insights into how to use what are now readily-available digital versions of ‘urban art’ to explore different facets of city life. It uses paintings as a more nuanced alternative to contemporary film, which tends to offer a simplistic dystopian vision of the urban experience. The article explores the city as portrayed by influential artists working in different countries from the midnineteenth century onwards, including France in the late nineteenth century – Gustave Caillebotte (focusing on Paris); America in the early twentieth century – George Bellows (on New York); Britain in the mid-twentieth century – L.S. Lowry (on Salford); and a contemporary Chinese artist – Cao Fei (on Guangzhou). Each allows us to see the city through specific narrative choices, and each example suggests how this approach might be used in any examination of urban life.
Andrew Kirby. Seeing cities through urban art. Geography 2017, 102, 33 -43.
AMA StyleAndrew Kirby. Seeing cities through urban art. Geography. 2017; 102 (1):33-43.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAndrew Kirby. 2017. "Seeing cities through urban art." Geography 102, no. 1: 33-43.
Note: In lieu of an abstract, this is an excerpt from the first page.Excerpt More has changed in journal publishing in the past twenty years than the previous four centuries. Digital technologies have transformed the submission, review, production and distribution of scholarly materials, with the result that there has been exponential growth in the number of papers published in an expanding roster of journals—some are mainstream, some highly specialized, some are produced by publishers who have existed since printing began and others are produced by small groups with niche interests.
Andrew Kirby. Editors and Journal Startup in the Digital Era. Publications 2015, 3, 232 -236.
AMA StyleAndrew Kirby. Editors and Journal Startup in the Digital Era. Publications. 2015; 3 (4):232-236.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAndrew Kirby. 2015. "Editors and Journal Startup in the Digital Era." Publications 3, no. 4: 232-236.
This paper aims to contribute to the evolving literature on the new landscape of scholarly journals. It builds on a series of experiences as a journal editor which span the print and digital eras, and focuses on two current activities with new journals. One was designed as a synoptic journal in a broad multidisciplinary field, supported by a commercial publisher; the other a non-revenue journal which aims to showcase the work of undergraduates in the author’s institution. Despite the uniqueness of goals and delivery, some of the experiences—and challenges—have proved remarkably similar.
Andrew Kirby. The Challenges of Journal Startup in the Digital Era. Publications 2015, 3, 219 -231.
AMA StyleAndrew Kirby. The Challenges of Journal Startup in the Digital Era. Publications. 2015; 3 (4):219-231.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAndrew Kirby. 2015. "The Challenges of Journal Startup in the Digital Era." Publications 3, no. 4: 219-231.
This article is the second of two on teaching about sustainability and cities in geography. The first article set the scene by assessing sustainability initiatives and arguing that the most profound challenge facing urban communities in the twenty-first century is adaptation (Kirby, 2014). This second article explores these claims in greater detail and goes on to show the potential for geographic research and education in this arena. Via a series of examples, this article demonstrates that existing approaches, such as planning, resilience and sustainability, are all shackled to broad normative concepts, when it is highly localised responses that are required to deal with the problems cities face in the coming decades. With its ability to offer a curriculum that incorporates the singularity of individual communities, geography is uniquely placed to offer leadership in this context.
Andrew Kirby. Adapting cities, adapting the curriculum. Geography 2014, 99, 90 -98.
AMA StyleAndrew Kirby. Adapting cities, adapting the curriculum. Geography. 2014; 99 (2):90-98.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAndrew Kirby. 2014. "Adapting cities, adapting the curriculum." Geography 99, no. 2: 90-98.
Geography possesses in its intellectual DNA a unique ability to understand cities. Decades ago, it embarked on this project but was distracted, for a number of reasons. The emergence of a field committed to sustainability has renewed the relevance of urban education. This, the first of two articles, begins to identify what geography has to offer. In the second article, I will suggest in greater detail how the discipline can provide leadership both in schools and in public policy in relation to studies of cities and sustainability.
Andrew Kirby. Geographical leadership, sustainability and urban education. Geography 2014, 99, 13 -19.
AMA StyleAndrew Kirby. Geographical leadership, sustainability and urban education. Geography. 2014; 99 (1):13-19.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAndrew Kirby. 2014. "Geographical leadership, sustainability and urban education." Geography 99, no. 1: 13-19.
Andrew Kirby. Editorial. Cities 2013, 32, S1 -S2.
AMA StyleAndrew Kirby. Editorial. Cities. 2013; 32 ():S1-S2.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAndrew Kirby. 2013. "Editorial." Cities 32, no. : S1-S2.
This editorial essay is the first of two designed to lay out a firm intellectual foundation for the material that will be published in future editions of CRoC. This first part is necessarily critical, pointing out that there is a stifling discourse of normative thinking that imposes a rigid framework of what is ‘good’ and what is ‘evil’ in our cities, to use Schorske’s terms. Lacking in understanding of context and place, attempting to impose a rigid template of density and planning practice, this critical framework inhibits our ability to think coherently and creatively about the future—which is what Angel describes as a “planet of cities”.
Andrew Kirby. Cities and powerful knowledge: An editorial essay on accepted wisdom and global urban theory [Part I]. Cities 2013, 32, S3 -S9.
AMA StyleAndrew Kirby. Cities and powerful knowledge: An editorial essay on accepted wisdom and global urban theory [Part I]. Cities. 2013; 32 ():S3-S9.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAndrew Kirby. 2013. "Cities and powerful knowledge: An editorial essay on accepted wisdom and global urban theory [Part I]." Cities 32, no. : S3-S9.
Andrew Kirby. Introduction to a new meta-journal in urban studies. Cities 2012, 29, S1 -S2.
AMA StyleAndrew Kirby. Introduction to a new meta-journal in urban studies. Cities. 2012; 29 ():S1-S2.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAndrew Kirby. 2012. "Introduction to a new meta-journal in urban studies." Cities 29, no. : S1-S2.
Andrew Kirby. Private Neighborhoods and the Transformation of Local Government by Robert H. Nelson. Journal of Urban Affairs 2008, 30, 225 -226.
AMA StyleAndrew Kirby. Private Neighborhoods and the Transformation of Local Government by Robert H. Nelson. Journal of Urban Affairs. 2008; 30 (2):225-226.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAndrew Kirby. 2008. "Private Neighborhoods and the Transformation of Local Government by Robert H. Nelson." Journal of Urban Affairs 30, no. 2: 225-226.
A significant number of Americans now live in housing that is marked by walls and in many instances by gates. While an increasing amount is written on these enclaves, relatively little research has been done on the developments themselves, the Home Owner Associations (HOAs) that run them, or their residents. This paper draws on the American Housing Survey and the Phoenix Area Social Survey to present demographic information on the housing and to indicate some of the attitudes of these homeowners. The data are used to question some popular conceptions concerning both gated communities and common interest neighborhoods, especially those relating to issues of fear and security, and to the functioning of the HOA. It is argued that it is important to continue the process of empirical research as these phenomena diffuse globally and are the focus of speculation, comment and policy development.
Andrew Kirby; Sharon L. Harlan; Larissa Larsen; Edward J. Hackett; Bob Bolin; Amy Nelson; Tom Rex; Shapard Wolf. Examining the Significance of Housing Enclaves in the Metropolitan United States of America. Housing, Theory and Society 2006, 23, 19 -33.
AMA StyleAndrew Kirby, Sharon L. Harlan, Larissa Larsen, Edward J. Hackett, Bob Bolin, Amy Nelson, Tom Rex, Shapard Wolf. Examining the Significance of Housing Enclaves in the Metropolitan United States of America. Housing, Theory and Society. 2006; 23 (1):19-33.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAndrew Kirby; Sharon L. Harlan; Larissa Larsen; Edward J. Hackett; Bob Bolin; Amy Nelson; Tom Rex; Shapard Wolf. 2006. "Examining the Significance of Housing Enclaves in the Metropolitan United States of America." Housing, Theory and Society 23, no. 1: 19-33.
Andrew Kirby. Peering into the future of academic review. Cities 2005, 22, 85 -87.
AMA StyleAndrew Kirby. Peering into the future of academic review. Cities. 2005; 22 (2):85-87.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAndrew Kirby. 2005. "Peering into the future of academic review." Cities 22, no. 2: 85-87.
Andrew Kirby. Behind the Gates: Life, Security and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America.Low Setha, Routledge, New York, 2003, xi+275 pages, ISBN 0-415-94438-4. Cities 2004, 21, 551 .
AMA StyleAndrew Kirby. Behind the Gates: Life, Security and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America.Low Setha, Routledge, New York, 2003, xi+275 pages, ISBN 0-415-94438-4. Cities. 2004; 21 (6):551.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAndrew Kirby. 2004. "Behind the Gates: Life, Security and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America.Low Setha, Routledge, New York, 2003, xi+275 pages, ISBN 0-415-94438-4." Cities 21, no. 6: 551.
Andrew Kirby. Behind the Gates: Life, Security and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America. Cities 2004, 21, 551 .
AMA StyleAndrew Kirby. Behind the Gates: Life, Security and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America. Cities. 2004; 21 (6):551.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAndrew Kirby. 2004. "Behind the Gates: Life, Security and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America." Cities 21, no. 6: 551.
Andrew Kirby. Metropolitics or Retropolitics? Antipode 2004, 36, 753 -759.
AMA StyleAndrew Kirby. Metropolitics or Retropolitics? Antipode. 2004; 36 (4):753-759.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAndrew Kirby. 2004. "Metropolitics or Retropolitics?" Antipode 36, no. 4: 753-759.
This study investigates the relationship between social connections and collective civic action. Measuring social capital in eight Phoenix, Arizona, neighborhoods allowed the authors to determine that individuals with strong social bonding (i.e., association and trust among neighbors) are more likely to take civic action. However, while social capital lessens the relationship between an individual’s social status and the likelihood of taking action, it does not eliminate the positive relationship. The analysis also suggests that bonding and bridging are distinct forms of social capital that have some different antecedents
Larissa Larsen; Sharon L. Harlan; Bob Bolin; Edward J. Hackett; Diane Hope; Andrew Kirby; Amy Nelson; Tom R. Rex; Shaphard Wolf. Bonding and Bridging. Journal of Planning Education and Research 2004, 24, 64 -77.
AMA StyleLarissa Larsen, Sharon L. Harlan, Bob Bolin, Edward J. Hackett, Diane Hope, Andrew Kirby, Amy Nelson, Tom R. Rex, Shaphard Wolf. Bonding and Bridging. Journal of Planning Education and Research. 2004; 24 (1):64-77.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLarissa Larsen; Sharon L. Harlan; Bob Bolin; Edward J. Hackett; Diane Hope; Andrew Kirby; Amy Nelson; Tom R. Rex; Shaphard Wolf. 2004. "Bonding and Bridging." Journal of Planning Education and Research 24, no. 1: 64-77.