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Resilience Imperative
Uncertainty, Risks and Disasters
When a threat becomes reality, the impact causes material damage and disruption to communities; the concept of resilience brings recovery, reconstruction, and renewal
Magali Reghezza-Zitt (Author), Samuel Rufat (Author)
9781785480515, Elsevier Science
Hardback, published 14 September 2015
262 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.2 cm, 0.52 kg
"We have to adapt to the impacts that, unfortunately, we can no longer avoid", said President Obama at the UN Climate Summit in September 2014. Adaptation and resilience are now a must in both academic research and international bodies. A fashionable concept, resilience's polysemy sparks many debates on its uses and operational relevance. This book bridges the increasing divide between academic research and the latest planning innovations, offering practical and conceptual insights for practitioners, researchers and students. Magali Reghezza-Zitt and Samuel Rufat present a cross-disciplinary, state-of-the-art debate and critical analysis of the social, spatial, practical and political implications of resilience.
1. Defining resilience: when the concept resists2. Resilience and vulnerability: from opposition towards a continuum3. Resilience: a question of scale4. Resilience: a systemic property5. From the resilience of constructions to the resilience of territories: A new framework for thought and for action6. Adapting territorial systems through their components: the case of critical networks7. Resilience and global climate change8. Organizational resilience: preparing and overcoming crisis9. (re)constructing resilient districts: experiences compared10. Resilience, memory and practices11. Critique of pure resilience
Subject Areas: Applied ecology [RNC], Environmental factors [MBNH2]
