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Localizing Resilience Strategies: Embracing the Practice of Resilience in Response to Disasters and Climate change

Posted on February 25, 2017 by

Guest author: John Shaw, County Emergency Management Director, Florida, USA Image credit: online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2099811/Eleven-months-tsunami-earthquake-ravaged-Japan-new-pictures-incredible-progress-multi-billion-pound-clear-up.html). There is a saying in emergency management, “all disasters are local.” Typically, this is understood to mean the acute disaster – the hurricane, the flood, the … Continue reading →

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Are Urban Sustainability and Resilience legitimizing social un-justice?

Posted on April 6, 2016 by

Authors: Lorenzo Chelleri and Isabelle Anguelovski The concept of urban sustainability has been around for many decades, receiving the attention of the whole spectrum of urban experts, sectors and disciplines. It also received  many and different critics while at the … Continue reading →

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How could urban design embrace change and uncertainty?

Posted on February 10, 2016 by

Guest author: Alessandra Feliciotti. Urban Design Studies Unit – UDSU, Department of Architecture, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Uk  We know nothing: the end of the positivistic dream If there is a couple of words that seems to fit perfectly our … Continue reading →

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A Global Virtual Roundtable on How to Measure, Why to measure, Cities Resilience

Posted on May 27, 2015 by

Since more than a decade, urban resilience has entered political agendas worldwide, academic debates, and within this blog specific interest, planning debates. The Joint AESOP/ACSP conference titled “Planning for Resilient Cities and Regions” (Dublin, July 2013) already explored and addressed … Continue reading →

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What resilience planning can tell us about decentralization and community engagement

Posted on September 12, 2014 by

By Irina Paraschivoiu “Resilience” has come to be used frequently in planning, and currently encompasses strategies dealing with economic downturns, climate change and human-induced disasters. Based on a case study on Bucharest, Romania, decentralization and community engagement are identified as … Continue reading →

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The URBES project and Resilient Cities in Bonn

Posted on May 30, 2014 by

Is about to begin, during these days in Bonn, the annual Congress of ICLEI “Resilient Cities.” Anticipating the congress, for two days there were some workshops. That, on the one hand, have introduced the Participants to the conference itself, on … Continue reading →

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