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Resilience imperative : uncertainty, risks and disasters / edited by Magali Reghezza-Zitt and Samuel Rufat.

Contributor(s): Reghezza-Zitt, Magali [editior.] | Rufat, Samuel [editor.]Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London : ISTE Press, 2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780081007761; 0081007760Subject(s): Emergency management | Disaster relief | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure | SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General | Disaster relief | Emergency management | Disaster Planning -- organization & administration | Risk Management -- organization & administration | Social Planning | Social Control PoliciesGenre/Form: Electronic books. | Electronic book.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Resilience Imperative : Uncertainty, Risks and Disasters.DDC classification: 363.348 LOC classification: HV553NLM classification: 2016 A-525 | WA 295Online resources: ScienceDirect

Contents:

Front Cover; Resilience Imperative; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; I.1. Resilience, Polysemy, Cacophony or Quandary?; I.2. Defining Resilience; I.3. Resilience Put to the Test: The Theoretical Issues; I.4. From Practical Application to Critical Examination; I.5. Bibliography; Chapter 1: Defining Resilience: When the Concept Resists; 1.1. A Multidisciplinary Construct; 1.2. Transfers in Cindynics; 1.3. Defining Resilience; 1.4. Two Concepts for a Single Word; 1.5. Conclusion; 1.6. Bibliography; Chapter 2: Resilience and Vulnerability: From Opposition towards a Continuum.

2.1. One or Several Vulnerabilities?2.2. The Vulnerability/Resilience Pair; 2.3. Beyond Opposition: The Notion of "Resiliencery Vulnerability"; 2.4. Conclusion; 2.5. Bibliography; Chapter 3: Resilience: A Question of Scale; 3.1. Resilience as a Scalar Problem; 3.2. The "Glocalization" of Risk and Scalar Reconfiguration of Resilience; 3.3. Changing Scales to Explain Resilience; 3.4. Conclusion; 3.5. Bibliography; Chapter 4: Resilience: A Systemic Property; 4.1. Resilience and Systemic Analysis; 4.2. The Case of the City, a Complex Sociosystem.

4.3. Maintaining the Cohesion of the System to Overcome the Crisis4.4. Conclusion; 4.5. Bibliography; Chapter 5: From the Resilience of Constructions to the Resilience of Territories: A New Framework for Thought and for Action; 5.1. The Conditions of Resilient Planning on the Scale of the Territory; 5.2. Applying Resilience: Adaptation and Resistance of the Material Components; 5.3. Conclusion; 5.4. Bibliography; Chapter 6: Adapting Territorial Systems Through Their Components: The Case of Critical Networks; 6.1. Technical and Critical Networks, Strategic Elements of Resilience.

6.2. Choosing Adaptations6.3. Conclusion; 6.4. Bibliography; Chapter 7: Resilience and Global Climate Change; 7.1. Resilience and Global Change: Scales, Temporalities Anduncertainty; 7.2. Adaptation to Global Change and Resilience; 7.3. Urban Resilience and Sustainable Urban Planning Practices; 7.4. Conclusion; 7.5. Bibliography; Chapter 8: Organizational Resilience: Preparing and Overcoming Crisis; 8.1. The Components and Temporalities of a Crisis; 8.2. Lessons from Feedback; 8.3. Organizing to Overcome a Crisis; 8.4. Conclusion; 8.5. Bibliography.

Chapter 9: (Re)Constructing Resilient Districts: Experiences Compared9.1. (Re)New Orleans: Big Easy as a Resilience Laboratory; 9.2. Urban Renewal and Resilience in East London: The Thames Gateway; 9.3. Conclusion; 9.4. Bibliography; Chapter 10: Resilience, Memory and Practices; 10.1. The Resilient System Between Identity and Evolution; 10.2. Resilience and Retaining a Memory of Risk; 10.3. The Problem of Identity; 10.4. Conclusion; 10.5. Bibliography; Chapter 11: Critique of Pure Resilience; 11.1. Resilience to the Test of Discourses; 11.2. The Dark Side of Resilience.

Summary: "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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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.

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