Fromhold-Eisebith Martina
Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsgeographie, Geographisches Institut, RWTH Aachen, Templergraben 55, 52056 Aachen, Deutschland.
Standort (Berl). 2023;47(1):33-39. doi: 10.1007/s00548-022-00815-0. Epub 2022 Dec 2.
To provide the Circular Economy with better opportunities for integration into city-regional strategies, linkages with broader objectives of resilience are solicited. The concepts of Urban and Regional Resilience are also increasingly discussed in Germany, as an approach to future viability. They are expected to bolster the robustness, adaptability, and recovery capabilities of cities and regions in the face of multiple crises, connected to objectives of sustainable development. This article, on the one hand, shows in which respects a combined view of urban-regional resilience establishes a suitable framework for effectively embedding systemic approaches of the Circular Economy into city-regional contexts. On the other hand, it explains how, in turn, the resilient cushioning against environment- and economy-related risks can be more successful if elements of the Circular Economy are integrated. After conceptual considerations of the synergistic interdependencies of these process fields, the example of the City of Aachen serves to illustrate the appropriate combination of 'Circular City' and resilience-related objectives. It elucidates how important a focus on innovation is for such strategic approaches. Finally, recommendations are made for designing a resilient-circular urban economy.
为了给循环经济提供更好的融入城市区域战略的机会，需要寻求与更广泛的韧性目标建立联系。城市和区域韧性的概念在德国也越来越多地被讨论，作为一种实现未来生存能力的方法。人们期望它们在面对与可持续发展目标相关的多重危机时，增强城市和区域的稳健性、适应性和恢复能力。一方面，本文展示了城市-区域韧性的综合视角在哪些方面为将循环经济的系统方法有效嵌入城市-区域环境建立了合适的框架。另一方面，它解释了反过来，如果整合循环经济的要素，针对与环境和经济相关风险的弹性缓冲如何能更成功。在对这些过程领域的协同相互依存关系进行概念性思考之后，亚琛市的例子用于说明“循环城市”与韧性相关目标的恰当结合。它阐明了对于此类战略方法而言，关注创新有多重要。最后，针对设计有韧性的循环城市经济提出了建议。
