This volume provides a comprehensive discussion and overview of urban resilience, including socio-ecological and economic hazard and disaster resilience. It provides a summary of state of the art thinking on resilience, the different approaches, tools and methodologies for understanding the subject in urban contexts, and brings together related reflections and initiatives. Throughout the different chapters, the handbook critically examines and reviews the resilience concept from various disciplinary and professional perspectives. It also discusses major urban crises, past and recent, and the generic lessons they provide for resilience. In this context, the authors provide case studies from different places and times, including historical material and contemporary examples, and studies that offer concrete guidance on how to approach urban resilience. Other chapters focus on how current understanding of urban systems – such as shrinking cities, green infrastructure, disaster volunteerism, and urban energy systems – are affecting the capacity of urban citizens, settlements and nation-states to respond to different forms and levels of stressors and shocks. The handbook concludes with a synthesis of the state of the art knowledge on resilience and points the way forward in refining the conceptualization and application of urban resilience. The book is intended for scholars and graduate students in urban studies, environmental and sustainability studies, geography, planning, architecture, urban design, political science and sociology, for whom it will provide an invaluable and up-to-date guide to current approaches across these disciplines that converge in the study of urban resilience. The book also provides important direction to practitioners and civic leaders who are engaged in supporting cities and regions to position themselves for resilience in the face of climate change, unpredictable socioenvironmental shocks and incremental risk accumulation.
Author(s): Michael A. Burayidi, Adriana Allen, John Twigg, Christine Wamsler
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
Publisher: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 502
Tags: Urbanization, Cities And Towns: Growth, Resilience (Ecology), Political Science: Public Policy: City Planning & Urban Development, Political Science: Public Policy: Environmental Policy, Science: Earth Sciences: Geography
1 Introduction: Rethinking Urban Resilience
Urban development and disasters
Scope of the book
Organization of the book
Part I: Critical review from different disciplinary perspectives
Part II: Urban systems under stress
Part III: Dimensions of resilience
Part IV: Resilience building in practice
Conclusion
References
Part I Critical review from different disciplinary perspectives
2 Urban resilience and urban sustainability
Introduction Conceptual foundation of resilience and sustainabilityResilience
Sustainability
Urban resilience and urban sustainability: Commonalities and differences
Instability, disturbances and a shifting framing of urban safety
Distribution of responsibility between public and private actors
Normative basis of both concepts
The space-time dimension
Conclusions
References
3 Against general resilience
Introduction
Concepts of resilience
General and specific resilience
Identity and persistence
Describing the system
General resilience and self-governance
The challenge of urban resilience NotesReferences
4 Urban resilience: A call to reframing planning discourses
Genealogy of resilience
Engineering resilience
Ecological resilience
Evolutionary resilience
Translation of resilience into urban planning and implications
Emergency Management and Community-based Disaster Preparedness
Roadmaps for Post-Disaster Recovery and Revitalization
Urban climate adaptation plans
Holling's society and shrinking cities: Two approaches to resilience
Conclusion
Note
References
5 The being of urban resilience
Introduction The changing nature of hazards, and their impacts on individual wellbeing and resilienceThe interface between disaster risk reduction, resilience and mindfulness: Research gaps
Mind science: The potential influence of mindfulness on building urban resilience
Conclusions
Notes
References
6 Data gaps and resilience metrics
Introduction
Methods for understanding risks and enhancing resilience at the local level
Detailed inventories of impacts or losses
DesInventar
MANDISA
Urban resilience measurement frameworks
Community-generated information
Discussion and conclusions
Notes
