A critical review of selected tools for assessing community resilience

Sharifi, Ayyoob

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.05.023

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“…It is suggested that regular and iterative assessment and the development of different future scenarios (that analyze future changes within short, medium, and long-term time horizons) can facilitate brainstorming on the complexities of urban system dynamics and, to some extent, prepare communities to deal with future uncertainties [4,58,59]. Such assessments and scenario-making processes may be resource intensive as they require regular updates of changing thresholds and baseline conditions [4,58]. Although regular assessment and scenario making can be somewhat effective, a shift from the "fail-safe" approach to the "safe-to-fail" approach requires acknowledging inadequacy and incompleteness of scientific knowledge for dealing with future changes and uncertainties.…”

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“…There is now a growing recognition among planners that the "predict and prevent" approach to planning fails to appropriately accommodate modern complexities and persistent uncertainties [57]. It is suggested that regular and iterative assessment and the development of different future scenarios (that analyze future changes within short, medium, and long-term time horizons) can facilitate brainstorming on the complexities of urban system dynamics and, to some extent, prepare communities to deal with future uncertainties [4,58,59]. Such assessments and scenario-making processes may be resource intensive as they require regular updates of changing thresholds and baseline conditions [4,58].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Given the value-laden nature of resilience, its conceptualization may differ from one (sub)discipline to another and even within (sub)disciplines [4,14,15]. Major divisions exist in viewing resilience as an action in response to identified risks and viewing resilience through a systemic evolutionary lens as a self-organization process.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…When community resilience is explored through an urban systems perspective, the framing and understanding of what a resilient city is, and how urban resilience should be conceived and measured is still under debate [10]. Limited knowledge exists on the implications of interlinkages between different urban sub-systems (i.e., environmental, social, economic, and physical) for achieving urban resilience through a multiscale, cross-sector, and multidisciplinary perspective [4,11]. The concept of urban resilience also brings to light emerging societal tensions between "continuity" (the capacity to maintain the performance of roles and functions within a society), "change" (societal evolution), and inclusion and exclusion within a given society [12].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Non-Euclidian planning is "normative, innovative, political, transactive, and based on social learning" [3] (p. 372). While non-Euclidean planning remains limited, resilience has emerged as a major concept that is increasingly used to promote urban planning, management theories, and management practices aimed at addressing issues related to vulnerability, risk, and uncertainty [4]. If we consider vulnerability as the result of exposure to disturbance, system sensitivity, and system resilience (or adaptive capacity) [5][6][7][8], then "each community must inevitably deal with the management of multiple and interacting exposures to different threats" [8] (p. 2230).…”

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Abstract:Resilience is a multi-faceted concept frequently used across a wide range of disciplines, practices, and sectors. There is a growing recognition of the utility of resilience as a bridging concept that can facilitate inter-and transdisciplinary approaches to tackle complexities inherent in decision making under conditions of risk and uncertainty. Such conditions are common in urban planning, infrastructure planning, asset management, emergency planning, crisis management, and development processes where systemic interdependencies and interests at stake influence decisions and outcomes. A major challenge that can undermine the use of resilience for guiding planning activities is the value-laden and contested nature of the concept that can be interpreted in a variety of ways. Because resilience is context-specific and generally depends on local aspirations, this issue can be partially tackled by adopting participatory approaches for the conceptualization of resilience. This paper provides an example of how co-design methods can be employed for conceptualizing resilience. The Structured Interview Matrix was used as a technique to facilitate discussions among a diverse group of researchers and practitioners attending the International Workshop on Tools and Indicators for Assessing Urban Resilience. Participants deliberated on issues related to constituent elements of urban resilience, including its position vis-à-vis concepts such as adaptation and sustainability, institutional factors that can enable/constrain resilience building, and the challenges of conducting and operationalizing urban resilience assessment. This paper can be considered as an initial step towards further exploration of participatory approaches for clarifying the underlying dimensions of complex concepts such as resilience.

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