Resilience imperative: uncertainty, risks and disasters

"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

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 t…