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Enabling strategies and impeding factors to urban resilience implementation: A scoping review
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In this paper, the authors identify enabling strategies, impeding factors and trade-offs in the implementation of urban resilience, and find that transparent, inclusive and supportive governance reduces the risk of negative impact that resilience implementation will have on communities.Abstract:
Despite growing interest in urban resilience, there is a significant gap between discourse and the capacity to develop resilience in practice. This scoping review assembles and shares evidence and insights from empirical studies of attempts to implement urban resilience published between 2005 and 2017. More precisely, it seeks to identify enabling strategies, impeding factors and trade‐offs in the implementation of urban resilience. Findings are presented along the dimensions of urban resilience detailed in the City Resilience Framework (ARUP/Rockefeller Foundation): Health and Wellbeing, Economy and Society, Infrastructure and Environment, and Leadership and Strategy (which we present as a cross‐cutting theme). While some enabling and impeding factors in implementation are associated with a specific dimension, others are common to all three. Across dimensions, we find that transparent, inclusive and supportive governance reduces the risk of negative impact that resilience implementation will have on communities. Conflicting priorities of managing risk and meeting short‐term needs are found to diminish the potential for transformative resilience action. Integrating risk into planning appears as a promising strategy in all dimensions of resilience. Trade‐offs are found in resilience implementation, and range from adverse effects associated with infrastructure to power imbalances when the power to implement resilience privileges one system level over another.read more
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A review of urban resilience literature
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Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
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Defining urban resilience: A review
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify six conceptual tensions fundamental to urban resilience: definition of urban resilience, understanding of system equilibrium, positive vs. neutral (or negative) conceptualizations of resilience, mechanisms for system change, adaptation versus general adaptability, and timescale of action.
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Disaster Resilience Indicators for Benchmarking Baseline Conditions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a methodology and a set of indicators for measuring baseline characteristics of communities that foster resilience by establishing baseline conditions, it becomes possible to monitor changes in resilience over time in particular places and to compare one place to another.
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Governance and the Capacity to Manage Resilience in Regional Social-Ecological Systems
Louis Lebel,John M. Anderies,Bruce M. Campbell,Carl Folke,Steve Hatfield-Dodds,Terry P. Hughes,James R. Wilson +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw on the insights from a diverse set of case studies from around the world in which members of the Resilience Alliance have observed or engaged with sustainability problems at regional scales.
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The Vulnerability of Cities: Natural Disasters and Social Resilience
TL;DR: The Vulnerability of Cities as mentioned in this paper examines the too often overlooked impact of disasters on cities, the conditions leading to high losses from urban disasters and why some households and communities withstand disaster more effectively than others.