Principles and criteria for assessing urban energy resilience: A literature review

Sharifi, Ayyoob; Yamagata, Yoshiki

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2016.03.028

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“…However, when a highly vulnerable system faces relatively severe shocks at short time intervals, it may cross thresholds and shift into completely different regimes. Under such conditions, incremental adaptation may not be sufficient and transformative adaptations would be needed to facilitate the transition of the system from one stability domain to another [15,28,29].…”

Section: Relationship Between Resilience and Adaptation Recovery Anmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Enhancing mitigation in the long-run (e.g., climate change mitigation) reduces the need for adaptation, since disasters or climate change impacts will be reduced [33]. Thus, resilience is directly enhanced as well [15].…”

Section: Relationship Between Resilience and Adaptation Recovery Anmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There was consensus among participants that decentralized infrastructures are not only more resilient to both short-and long-term shocks (because of the physical redundancy of the networks which distributes risk and reduces vulnerability to supply chain disruptions), but also contribute to sustainability transitions, if framed according to a more renewable resources paradigm. Simultaneously, other resilience co-benefits can be accrued from distributed and decentralized infrastructure [15,36,37]. Decentralization improves access, enables local control over planning and resource management, and provides learning opportunities by engaging different stakeholders in the co-management of the infrastructure and related services [15,36,37].…”

Section: Community Resilience and The Built Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Simultaneously, other resilience co-benefits can be accrued from distributed and decentralized infrastructure [15,36,37]. Decentralization improves access, enables local control over planning and resource management, and provides learning opportunities by engaging different stakeholders in the co-management of the infrastructure and related services [15,36,37]. These decentralized-distribution options can also contribute to empowerment toward a socio-economic transformation (e.g., evidence shows that promotion of decentralized energy systems enhances energy affordability, improves local awareness, and promotes local involvement in planning and decision making [15,38]).…”

Section: Community Resilience and The Built Environmentmentioning

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%

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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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Section: Relationship Between Resilience and Adaptation Recovery Anmentioning

confidence: 99%