How do cities and regions adapt to socio-economic crisis? Towards an institutionalist approach to urban and regional resilience

Lang, Thilo

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“…The projection of demographic and economic changes in American cities today and in the near future provides an advanced opportunity to apply adaptation measures that will diminish the negative impacts of the aging baby‐boomer population that overwhelming the system, which already has begun. In this case, the notion of resilience is helpful since it shifts attention to questions of how systems adapt to changing conditions, and it is important to understand that it is more a question of adapting than of responding to new conditions (Lang, ). Therefore, with slow‐burn changes it is more important to talk about adaptation than about quick responses to sudden shocks.…”

Section: Resilience As a Conceptual Framework Of The Studymentioning

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Aging with financial insecurity: social resilience and adaptation in urban areas of the United States

Rakhimova

2018

Natural Resources Forum

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In American metropolitan areas, many elderly people will have limited financial resources, leading to a growing number of seniors who struggle with poverty and financial insecurity. At the same time, federal funding for social services is shrinking, and local organizations will play a key role in supporting the low‐income elderly in American metropolitan areas. The concept of social resilience offers a useful starting point for understanding the mechanisms that hinder or enable local communities and individuals, in order to recognize and cope with the slow, continuous changes that these demographic shifts present. The objective of the study is to understand how metropolitan areas (by example of Phoenix, AZ) deal with the demographic changes of an aging population and increasing financial insecurity and inequality. The major findings for the research period from 2012 to 2014 show that local actors from the public and nonprofit sectors demonstrated involvement in the network of support for the aging population, where nonprofit actors are mainly dependent on the decisions and funding of the public sector, and increasingly rely on volunteer support.

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Section: Resilience As a Conceptual Framework Of The Studymentioning

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Aging with financial insecurity: social resilience and adaptation in urban areas of the United States

Rakhimova

2018

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“…For instance, in the context of a crisis, urban decision makers (including planners) must diagnose, and impose on others, their notion or understanding of a crisis before collective action to address perceived problems or challenges with existing policies or mechanisms can be taken. Thus the framing of a crisis event is important -in terms of perceived forms of vulnerability and crisis, related to normative perceptions and considerations of desirable and undesirable social and economic conditions (Lang, 2012).…”

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“…In considering the 'capacity' of a city -and urban planning -to adapt or respond to change, this paper argues for greater consideration of (institutional) frameworks of decision making -including how ideas (such as resilience) diffuse, are institutionalised, and shape the practices and structures of management organisations. Moreover, this paper proposes that new institutionalism can be useful when applying the (evolutionary) resilience concept within urban planning particularly, as it seeks to highlight dominant norms, perceptions and paradigms which can lead to particular forms of action (or lack thereof) in the face of a crisis (Lang, 2012).…”

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“…Over the past two decades the concept 'resilience', and more specifically 'urban resilience', has gained increasing attention within urban planning research, policy and practice; particularly in the context of the global financial crisis of the late 2000s, and continuing forms of social, political, economic and financial crises in a number of European countries (Lang, 2012). The concept is typically presented as the capacity of cities to 'bounce back' or even 'bounce forward' from a disturbance or crisis event -and thus is often considered to be, superficially at least, an agreeable and almost 'incontestable' concept (White & O'Hare, 2014).…”

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“…In doing so, the paper also queries the potential contribution of new institutionalism in enhancing our understanding of resilience -a proposition supported by scholars including Lang (2011; who argues that resilience must be conceptualised in such a way that processes of and (institutional) frameworks for decision making are recognised. This paper argues that such a perspective can be useful when applying the (evolutionary) resilience concept within urban planning, as it seeks to highlight dominant norms, perceptions and paradigms which can lead to particular forms of action (or lack thereof) in the face of a crisis (Lang, 2012).…”

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2016

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Over the past two decades, the concept of 'urban resilience' has gained increasing attention within the field of urban planning. More recently, interest in the concept can be partly linked to the recent global economic crisis, which has stimulated much debate around pre-crisis urban development models, and more broadly around the ability of modern planning systems to adequately adapt and respond to changing circumstances. This paper reviews the scholarly literature on urban resilience and concludes that despite its increasing ubiquity, the concept still lacks precise definition, and operationalising the concept within the planning domain remains a challenge. Specifically, the paper highlights the importance of distinguishing between 'equilibrium' and 'evolutionary' understandings of resilience, with particular focus on the potential of the evolutionary perspective to aid analysis of local planning responses to the recent global economic crisis. In doing so, the paper also queries the potential contribution of new institutionalism, and discursive institutionalism in particular, in enhancing our understanding of the resilience concept in this context, and in addressing some of the common critiques attached to it.

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Kegler¹

2019

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies

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In recent years, the term “resilience,” or “metropolitan resilience,” has positioned itself for a precipitous career in research and urban policy. Resilience as a concept is becoming more and more widely accepted and is likely to become the standard for urban development policy. The worldwide program of the Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities is an expression of this. Generally, resilience is a fundamental property of natural and social systems that include the city, region, or metropolis. The term means self‐renewal in a broad sense. Resilience itself as a term is neutral and is derived from the Latinresilire(rebound). It concerns how individuals or communities deal with environmental changes in the sense of preserving the system. It is a matter of survivability, safeguarding the habitat, adaptation to global challenges, and renewal following crises. Resilience refers to the ability of societies or ecosystems to respond to disturbances or shocks and to maintain their system functions. Resilience refers to a capacity for resistance to disturbances and crisis phenomena combined with a learning capacity for future challenges.

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How do cities and regions adapt to socio-economic crisis? Towards an institutionalist approach to urban and regional resilience

Cited by 35 publications

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Aging with financial insecurity: social resilience and adaptation in urban areas of the United States

Aging with financial insecurity: social resilience and adaptation in urban areas of the United States

Operationalising Resilience within Urban Planning – Bridging Theory and Practice

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