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Tag Archives: resilience
Localizing Resilience Strategies: Embracing the Practice of Resilience in Response to Disasters and Climate change
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
Posted in Beyond planning, Sustainability and resilience
Tagged Natural disaster, Practice, resilience
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Are Urban Sustainability and Resilience legitimizing social un-justice?
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
How could urban design embrace change and uncertainty?
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
A Global Virtual Roundtable on How to Measure, Why to measure, Cities Resilience
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
Posted in Sustainability and resilience
Tagged climate change, metrics, resilience, sustainability
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What resilience planning can tell us about decentralization and community engagement
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
Posted in Beyond planning, Planning, city, and society, Sustainability and resilience, Territory, landscape, land
Tagged Bucharest, community engagement, decentralization, devolution, disaster, earthquake, hazard, Manizales, mitigation, multi-layered governance, resilience, risk, Rotterdam, strategic planning, vulnerability
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The URBES project and Resilient Cities in Bonn
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
