A review of the theory and practice of regional resilience

Peng, Chong; Yuan, Minhang; Gu, Chaolin; Peng, Zhong-Ren; Ming, Tingzhen

doi:10.1016/j.scs.2016.12.003

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“…In large urban agglomerations, solutions for sustainable development are more accessible through new technological tools and novel institutional arrangements. Empirical research indicates that social factors such as economic stimulus, population control, governance and regulation in the urbanization process may contribute to an improved environment [28,29,30,31]. In developed areas, governments encourage producers to clean their own waste or seek alternative production processes to reduce emissions [20], in developing countries, there is already an intention to actively repair environmental pollution [32].…”

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“…Smart systems can reduce vulnerability, and it is imperative for cities to be resilient if they can be considered smart. Resilience shares much with other key contemporary urban goals such as sustainability, governance and economic development [30,31,61]. Additionally, Kattel et al [14] propose an Ecology-Environment and Human Health-Urban design management framework for effective urban planning and social harmony in order to better understand the complementary roles of ecological system in urban development and the functioning of ecosystems and ecological resilience in a complex human-dominated landscape.…”

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Analyzing Mega City-Regions through Integrating Urbanization and Eco-Environment Systems: A Case Study of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region

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Fan

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The high-speed economic growth of mega city-regions in China has been characterized by rapid urbanization accompanied by a series of environmental issues ranging from widespread soil contamination to groundwater depletion. This article begins with an analysis of the interaction between urbanization and the ecological system and reviews existing frameworks for analyzing urban and ecological systems. By taking the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region as an example, the article introduces a conceptual framework to analyze mega city-regions and forecast possible interactions between urbanization and eco-environment by applying simulation model. The proposed framework and its components can provide guidance to identify the impacts of urbanization and external forces such as globalization on eco-environment by integrating the internal and external factors, synthesize the complex components of mega city-regions in databases, understand and diagnose the casual relationship between urban policies and ecological consequences.

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Analyzing Mega City-Regions through Integrating Urbanization and Eco-Environment Systems: A Case Study of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region

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“…Resilience alliance, as applied to ecosystems and integrated systems of people and the natural environment, have three essential characteristics of resilience, these being 'the equilibrium' -the amount of disturbance which the system can withstand and maintain its function and structure; 'self-organization' -the capacity of self-organizations; and 'innovation' -the ability to increase the capacity for adaptation and learning [29].…”

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An Energy-Resilient City, an Appraisal Matrix for the Built Environment

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Ayad

Galil

2017

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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The 21st century is known as the century of the city; the world is becoming more urban with more than half of the world's population residing in cities. In this respect, a city is a complex dynamic system of interconnected urban processes. Nowadays, cities are hot spots responsible for the threatened global environment and urban life, as well as chronic stresses and vulnerabilities. Chronic energy shortage is one of the main stresses that threatens the city and puts pressure on city systems, mainly due to the impact of higher energy uses in urban areas. Vulnerabilities, stresses and adaptability are fundamental to the emerging science of resilience. While the concept of resilience is intriguing, this paper contributes to filling the theoretical gaps of the urban energy resilience by reviewing the concept of urban resilience, explaining the energy resilience principles and identifying the built environment components that can be used to help planners to enhance the city to absorb, recover and adapt to the vulnerabilities of the city. The paper concludes with suggesting an urban energy resilience matrix that addresses the energy shortage in a city to better understand and analyze the intricate issues for an energy-efficient, resilient, safer future city.

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“…To deal with these effects, international organizations such as the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank focus their disaster prevention work on strengthening the self-recovery powers of disaster-stricken areas through disaster resilience programs, which allow "the system, community or society exposed to the hazard factor to timely and effectively resist, absorb and withstand the effects of disasters, and the ability to recover from it" (UNISDR 2009). The concept of resilience and particularly disaster resilience is closely associated with regional planning, development, and post-disaster reconstruction (Peng et al 2017;Huang et al 2020). Crespo et al (2013) clari ed regional resilience planning thinking into four phases, each of which was related to the accurate measurement and evaluation of the previous phase.…”

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Dynamic Change in Regional Resilience Indicators After a Disaster: A Comprehensive Assessment of Sichuan After the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake

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Shi

Mao

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Regional resilience after a disaster is a process that encompasses resistance, recovery and redevelopment. However, there have been few longitudinal dynamic analyses using resilience indicators after a disaster. This research proposes an ordination and clustering-based method for regional resilience evaluations focused on short-term disaster-resistance and long-term disaster-recovery capacities in the affected counties. This method was proven to be effective on data from 55 counties before and after the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake (2005-2016) in Sichuan Province, China. It was found that: (i) economic related indicators were often negatively affected by the disaster over the short term, especially in the severely affected counties; (ii) the degree of economic development and the devastation extent significantly affected the recovery trends of two macro-economic indicators: the primary industry and the private economy; and (iii) the recovery trends in most counties for some economic and social indicators were initially stagnant or had a slow recovery for 1-3 years, after which there was a rapid recovery process. The intuitive and informative results from this evaluation provide a better understanding of the dynamic regional resilience process after a disaster.

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A review of the theory and practice of regional resilience

Cited by 62 publications

References 32 publications

Analyzing Mega City-Regions through Integrating Urbanization and Eco-Environment Systems: A Case Study of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region

Analyzing Mega City-Regions through Integrating Urbanization and Eco-Environment Systems: A Case Study of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region

An Energy-Resilient City, an Appraisal Matrix for the Built Environment

Dynamic Change in Regional Resilience Indicators After a Disaster: A Comprehensive Assessment of Sichuan After the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake

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