Special Issue "Social Capital, Infrastructural Capital and Resilience Capacity in Urban Systems"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Peter Nijkamp
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Department of Management, The Open University of The Netherlands, 6411 CR Heerlen, The Netherlands
Interests: cover plan evaluation; multicriteria analysis; regional and urban planning; transport system analysis; mathematical modeling of spatial systems; migration; technological innovation; environmental and resource management
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Dr. Karima Kourtit
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Department of Management, The Open University of The Netherlands, 6411 CR Heerlen, The Netherlands
Interests: creative industries; urban development; cultural heritage; digital technology; strategic performance management
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Dr. Jaewon Lim
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School of Public Policy & Leadership, Greenspun College of Urban Affairs, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89557, USA
Interests: urban/regional demographic and economic analysis; sustainable economic development; spatial analysis of labor markets; inter-regional migration, regional economic impact analysis; tourism economics, spatial analysis, and econometrics; geographic information sciences/systems

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue aims to publish a collection of analytical and original contributions on the sustainability of urban systems from the perspective of community sense (social capital), connectivity/accessibility (infrastructure and social overhead capital), and the potential for recovery after a disruption (resilience capacity). Consequently, the focus will be on the fluctuations in and the evolution of cities or urban agglomerations. Social capital refers here to the cohesion or bonds among residents or groups of residents (including neighborhoods in cities), which together make up a social network that is able to better absorb shocks or uncertainties, while accessibility pertains to the physical connectivity and efficient mobility in urban areas through which infrastructure users can reach destinations with the lowest distance, friction, or shock costs possible. While applied studies are welcome, much emphasis will be placed on evidence-based, analytical studies, particularly with a view to the time-varying trajectory or socioeconomic development of urban areas that are characterized by shocks or fluctuations (both natural and man-made). The geographical coverage of these studies pertains to diverse cities (or classes of cities) from both the developing and developed world.

This Special Issue seeks, in particular, to collect papers that address the following issues or research approaches:

  • analysis of the infrastructural and social conditions causing cities to be vulnerable to shocks or disasters;
  • comparison of different cities that have been successful in enhancing resilience with their social capital, institutions, and community sense when facing unexpected and uncontrollable extreme events;
  • emphasis on the potential for recovery of cities as a result of two types of forces, viz. social capital and accessibility; and
  • attention to the governance of a complex urban system, in particular from the interwoven nature of the software (social capital) and the hardware (mobility infrastructure).

Dr. Peter Nijkamp
Dr. Karima Kourtit
Dr. Jaewon Lim
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • sustainable cities
  • community sense
  • inclusive cities
  • urban mobility
  • connectivity
  • accessibility
  • resilience
  • recovery potential

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Resilience toward Volcanic Eruptions: Risk Perception and Disaster Microinsurance in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Sustainability 2021, 13(16), 8912; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13168912 - 09 Aug 2021
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Disaster microinsurance has been argued to enhance people’s resilience toward natural hazards. In developing countries, however, the uptake of this insurance scheme has been limited. This paper investigates the influence of the perception of disaster risks on the probability of local people participating [...] Read more.
Disaster microinsurance has been argued to enhance people’s resilience toward natural hazards. In developing countries, however, the uptake of this insurance scheme has been limited. This paper investigates the influence of the perception of disaster risks on the probability of local people participating in a hypothetical disaster microinsurance scheme. We use household data to assess a specific disaster risk, notably the risk of an eruption of the Mount Merapi in Yogyakarta. We find that this perception positively influences the interest to participate in disaster microinsurance. We also find that insurance literacy has a strong positive relationship with the respondent’s interest to participate in disaster microinsurance. Full article
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Urban Structure in Troubled Times: The Evolution of Principal and Secondary Core/Periphery Gaps through the Prism of Residential Land Values
Sustainability 2021, 13(10), 5722; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13105722 - 20 May 2021
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The structure of modern cities is characterized by the uneven spatial distribution of people and activities. Contrary to economic theory, it is neither evenly distributed nor entirely monocentric. The observed reality is the result of various feedbacks in the context of the interactions [...] Read more.
The structure of modern cities is characterized by the uneven spatial distribution of people and activities. Contrary to economic theory, it is neither evenly distributed nor entirely monocentric. The observed reality is the result of various feedbacks in the context of the interactions of attraction and repulsion. Heretofore, there is no agreement concerning the means to measuring the dimensions of these interactions, nor the framework for explaining them. We propose a simple model and an associated method for testing the interactions using residential land values. We claim that land values reflect the attractiveness of each location, including its observable and unobservable characteristics. We extract land values from prices of residences by applying a dedicated hedonic model to extensive residential real estate transaction data at a detailed spatial level. The resulting land values reflect the attractiveness of each urban location and are an ideal candidate to measure the degree of centrality or peripherality of each location. Moreover, assessment of land values over time indicates ongoing centralization and peripheralization processes. Using the urban structure of a small and highly urbanized country as a test case, this paper illustrates how the dynamics of the gap between central and peripheral urban areas can be assessed. Full article
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