The Routledge handbook of urban resilience /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Other Authors: Burayidi, Michael A. (Editor), Allen, Adriana (Editor), Twigg, John, 1957- (Editor), Wamsler, Christine (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
Series:Routledge international handbooks.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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