Defining Resilience: When the Concept Resists

Reghezza‐Zitt, Magali; Provitolo, Damienne; Lhomme, Serge

doi:10.1016/b978-1-78548-051-5.50001-2

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“…Even if resilience applied to the urban context overcomes conceptually and methodologically sectorial analyses, it is difficult to make it operational because it provides multiple translations, in terms of issues and methodology development (Toubin et al, 2014). Indeed, urban resilience is currently sometime seen as a 'fashionable' concept from both a theoretical, as well as practical, point of view (Reghezza-Zitt and Rufat, 2015); however, its operationalisation is still unclear. Although its relevance appears evident, actions aiming at flood resilience implementation or operational assessment remain limited .…”

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confidence: 99%

Contributing to urban resilience to floods with neighbourhood design: the case of Am Sandtorkai/Dalmannkai in Hamburg

Serre

Barroca

Balsells

et al. 2016

J Flood Risk Management

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Contributing to urban resilience to floods with neighbourhood design: the case of Am Sandtorkai/Dalmannkai in Hamburg

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Barroca

Balsells

et al. 2016

J Flood Risk Management

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“…Reghezza‐Zitt et al (2015) argue that the word resilience, which is not directly attached to common language, generates polysemy through different disciplines. They explain that the first scientific use of this concept came from the physics of materials in the 1900s, where resilience referred to “elastic and plastic capacities”, but not “a simple capacity to resist” a shock.…”

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Reconstruction and resilience after Fukushima: A critical analysis of nuclear risk and disaster

Kojima

2023

Japanese Journal of Sociology

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This article revisits the concept of reconstruction in light of the Fukushima nuclear accident on March 11, 2011. It also offers an analysis of the reconstruction policy launched by the Japanese authorities in the context of the risk due to low-dose radiation. What does reconstruction mean after this nuclear disaster? What kind of reconstruction is considered possible in the contaminated territories by those affected by this disaster and confronted with this long-term health and environmental risk? To answer these questions, this article first examines the concept of reconstruction-very close to that of resilience in the Japanese context-which has sparked a controversy within the social sciences, at both national and international level. Second, based on more than 100 interviews conducted between 2013 and 2016 across the entire Nippon archipelago, this article analyzes the reconstruction policy's socio-cultural consequences on the victims of this disaster who leave, stay or return to the contaminated territories. Finally, it proposes a new approach to the reconstruction of Fukushima, one which would support the process of resilience at the individual and collective levels.

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“…In this definition, resilience is a system property, and persistence or the probability of extinction is the result [ 11 ]. In 1990, resilience was first applied to cities, and its main purpose was to reduce the impact of disturbances on city systems [ 12 , 13 ]. In the 21st century, Holling [ 14 ] redefined and extended resilience within the context of CASs as the ability to withstand disturbance, self-organize, and learn and adapt.…”

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Study on Urban Resilience from the Perspective of the Complex Adaptive System Theory: A Case Study of the Lanzhou-Xining Urban Agglomeration

Yang

Zhao

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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In the context of global environmental change and continuous urbanization, enhancing urban resilience is an important way to improve urban emergency management capacity and achieve sustainable development of urban systems. It is of great significance to clarify the mechanisms and effects of urban resilience and carry out resilience measurement to improve the level of urban system resilience and alleviate the pressure of environmental disturbances on the stable operation of urban systems. As an important part of the “Belt and Road” Initiative and one of the few leading economic regions in western China, promoting the high-quality development of the Lanzhou-Xining urban agglomeration is of profound significance for strengthening ethnic unity and stabilizing the northwest and southwest regions. Based on the complex adaptive system (CAS) theory and the adaptive cycle model, this study understands urban resilience as the comprehensive result of urban system stability, self-organization, learning adaptability and transformability, constructs a multi-level open index evaluation system, and analyzes the spatio-temporal evolution characteristics of urban resilience of the Lanzhou-Xining urban agglomeration from the proposed design to the formal planning in 2010–2017. The findings are as follows: (1) Research on the urban resilience of the Lanzhou-Xining urban agglomeration verifies the applicability of the evolutionary urban resilience analysis framework and makes preliminary findings on urban resilience based on CAS theory, which provide a certain theoretical reference for the research on the spatio-temporal evolution of urban resilience. (2) From 2010 to 2017, significant differences are observed between various urban attributes. Resilience exhibits an overall upward trend, and spatial evolution changes from a double core (Lanzhou and Xining) to three cores (Lanzhou, Xining and Haidong) and polycentric modes. (3) Based on urban resilience characteristics and an urban system adaptability cycle model, this paper divides the Lanzhou-Xining urban agglomeration cities into four types (exploitation–reorganization, conservation–release, conservation–exploitation and exploitation), and proposes corresponding adaptive management countermeasures. These could be adopted as a reference to promote the high-quality development of the Lanzhou-Xining urban agglomeration.

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Defining Resilience: When the Concept Resists

Cited by 8 publications

References 14 publications

Contributing to urban resilience to floods with neighbourhood design: the case of Am Sandtorkai/Dalmannkai in Hamburg

Contributing to urban resilience to floods with neighbourhood design: the case of Am Sandtorkai/Dalmannkai in Hamburg

Reconstruction and resilience after Fukushima: A critical analysis of nuclear risk and disaster

Study on Urban Resilience from the Perspective of the Complex Adaptive System Theory: A Case Study of the Lanzhou-Xining Urban Agglomeration

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