
Resilience Imperative
Uncertainty, Risks and Disasters
Description
Key Features
- Offers a critical approach of resilience, based on a wide range of case studies
- Provides insights ranging from the most recent theoretical issues to the most practical engineering innovations
- Links the latest cross-disciplinary academic insights with the up-to-date, practical innovations
Readership
Practitioners, researchers and students involved within the fields of the environment, geography, planning, climate change and sustainable development
Table of Contents
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
1: Defining Resilience: When the Concept Resists
- Abstract
- 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
2: Resilience and Vulnerability: From Opposition towards a Continuum
- Abstract
- 2.1 One or several vulnerabilities?
- 2.2 The vulnerability/resilience pair
- 2.3 Beyond opposition: the notion of “resiliencery vulnerability”
- 2.4 Conclusion
3: Resilience: A Question of Scale
- Abstract
- 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
4: Resilience: A Systemic Property
- Abstract
- 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 crisis
- 4.4 Conclusion
5: From the Resilience of Constructions to the Resilience of Territories: A New Framework for Thought and for Action
- Abstract
- 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
6: Adapting Territorial Systems Through their Components: The Case of Critical Networks
- Abstract
- 6.1 Technical and critical networks, strategic elements of resilience
- 6.2 Choosing adaptations
- 6.3 Conclusion
7: Resilience and Global Climate Change
- Abstract
- 7.1 Resilience and global change: scales, temporalities and uncertainty
- 7.2 Adaptation to global change and resilience
- 7.3 Urban resilience and sustainable urban planning practices
- 7.4 Conclusion
8: Organizational Resilience: Preparing and Overcoming Crisis
- Abstract
- 8.1 The components and temporalities of a crisis
- 8.2 Lessons from feedback
- 8.3 Organizing to overcome a crisis
- 8.4 Conclusion
9: (Re)Constructing Resilient Districts: Experiences Compared
- Abstract
- 9.1 (Re)New Orleans: Big Easy as a resilience laboratory
- 9.2 Urban renewal and resilience in East London: the Thames Gateway
- 9.3 Conclusion
10: Resilience, Memory and Practices
- Abstract
- 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
11: Critique of Pure Resilience
- Abstract
- 11.1 Resilience to the test of discourses
- 11.2 The dark side of resilience
- 11.3 “Good” or “bad”, who is declaring resilience?
- 11.4 Conclusion
Product details
- No. of pages: 262
- Language: English
- Copyright: © ISTE Press - Elsevier 2015
- Published: September 14, 2015
- Imprint: ISTE Press - Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780081007761
- Hardcover ISBN: 9781785480515