Dialogic Data Innovations for Sustainability Transformations and Flood Resilience: The Case for Waterproofing Data

34 Pages Posted: 21 Oct 2022

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João Porto de Albuquerque

University of Glasgow

Liana Anderson

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Nerea Calvillo

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Massimo Cattino

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Andrew Clarke

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Maria Alexandra Cunha

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Livia Degrossi

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Joanne Garde-Hansen

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Carolin Klonner

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Fernanda Lima-Silva

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Victor Marchezini

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais

Mario Martins

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Diego Pajarito Grajales

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Vangelis Pitidis

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Mohammed Rizwan

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Nathaniel Tkacz

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Rachel Trajber

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Date Written: October 6, 2022

Abstract

Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and have increasing impacts, which disproportionately affect marginalised and impoverished communities. Adapting to the new climatic conditions and building resilience to disaster risks such as floods are some of today’s most significant challenges. This article presents and evaluates a novel methodological approach for co-producing urban data innovations for sustainability transformations, which draws on the dialogic pedagogy of Paulo Freire to contribute to achieving just, inclusive, and equitable outcomes for urban resilience. This approach has been used in a transdisciplinary international project with study sites in Brazil and has generated three main methodological innovations: making data practices visible, engaging citizens and communities with flood data, and sharing data stories. Our study shows these methods have been able to expand the types of data used in disaster risk reduction and engage more diverse social groups in data generation, circulation, and usage. Our approach has revealed novel climate-resilient, data-enabled transformation pathways that exploit a wider set of transformative roles of data for flood resilience. This has not only contributed to filling data gaps for climate risk analytics but also enabled citizens living in flood-prone areas to make sense of citizen-generated and official data to improve day-to-day decision-making, helping them to turn early warnings into early action to protect lives and livelihoods.

Keywords: transformations, sustainability, floods, urban data, climate adaptation, resilience

JEL Classification: O35, 054

Suggested Citation

Porto de Albuquerque, João and Anderson, Liana and Calvillo, Nerea and Cattino, Massimo and Clarke, Andrew and Cunha, Maria Alexandra and Degrossi, Livia and Garde-Hansen, Joanne and Klonner, Carolin and Lima-Silva, Fernanda and Marchezini, Victor and Martins, Mario and Pajarito Grajales, Diego and Pitidis, Vangelis and Rizwan, Mohammed and Tkacz, Nathaniel and Trajber, Rachel, Dialogic Data Innovations for Sustainability Transformations and Flood Resilience: The Case for Waterproofing Data (October 6, 2022). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4240075 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4240075

João Porto de Albuquerque (Contact Author)

University of Glasgow ( email )

Urban Big Data Centre
7 Lilibank Gardens
Glasgow, Scotland G12 8LE
United Kingdom

Liana Anderson

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Nerea Calvillo

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Massimo Cattino

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Andrew Clarke

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Maria Alexandra Cunha

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Livia Degrossi

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Joanne Garde-Hansen

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Carolin Klonner

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Fernanda Lima-Silva

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Victor Marchezini

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais ( email )

Av. dos Astronautas
São José dos Campos
Brazil

Mario Martins

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Diego Pajarito Grajales

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Vangelis Pitidis

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Mohammed Rizwan

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Nathaniel Tkacz

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Rachel Trajber

affiliation not provided to SSRN

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