Resilience as a framework for urbanism and recovery

Allan, Penny; Bryant, Martin

doi:10.1080/18626033.2011.9723453

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“…In order to regulate human communities, it has been agreed upon that urban planning should include seven resilience attributes (Norris et al, 2008;Allan & Bryant, 2011;Ahern, 2011). These are: "Diversity", or having different options for adapting to a wide range of circumstances; "redundancy", or having multiple elements/components that provide similar functions in the event that others fail; "multi-functionality", to support response diversity required after a disaster; "modularity", for allowing individual modules to keep functioning when loosely linked modules fails; "multi-scale network and connectivity", to building resilient networks through redundant circuitry; "overlap in governance", which refers to redundancy in governance structures; and "adaptability with innovation", to encourage learning and experimentation in order to develop rules and embrace change at local scales.…”

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Resilience thinking and urban planning in a coastal environment at risks of tsunamis: the case study of Mehuín, Chile

Villagra

Herrmann

Quintana

et al. 2016

Rev. geogr. Norte Gd.

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It is critical to understand how to accommodate the 'resilience thinking' approach in city planning, in order for urban environments to adapt to extreme natural events. This study explored from both a conceptual and applied perspective, whether or not the resilience thinking approach has been adressed in urban planning, using Mehuin, Chile, as a case study. The methodology involved a qualitative review of planning tools, in orden to analyze the extent to which urban resilience attributes (e.g. diversity and redundancy) are addressed in Mehuin's planning, documents, along with a quantitative evaluation of resilience dimensions (i.e. physical, environmental and social) for Mehuin's urban environment. Our fi ndings indicated that the environmental dimension has the greatest infl uence on the adaptive capacity of Mehuín; however, this is not addressed in the urban planning tools. These divergent results are further discussed with respect to the potential challenges that could arise in current planning science, as we know it. Key words: Resilience thinking, urban planning, tsunami RESUMENLa comprensión de cómo acomodar el "pensamiento resiliente" en la planifi cación de ciudades es fundamental para la adaptación de los entornos urbanos a eventos naturales extremos. Este estudio explora si el pensamiento resiliente se ha abordado en la planifi cación urbana, tanto desde la perspectiva conceptual como de la aplicada, utilizando Mehuín, Chile, como caso de estudio. La metodología se basa en: Una revisión cualitativa de las herramientas de planifi cación para analizar en qué medida los atributos de la resiliencia urbana (por ejemplo, la diversidad y la redundancia) se abordan en los documentos de planifi cación; y una evaluación cuantitativa de las dimensiones de la resiliencia del medio ambiente 1 We would like to acknowledge CONICYT Fondecyt

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Resilience thinking and urban planning in a coastal environment at risks of tsunamis: the case study of Mehuín, Chile

Villagra

Herrmann

Quintana

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Rev. geogr. Norte Gd.

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“…Si los indicadores de sostenibilidad se enfocan en asegurar un nivel adecuado de equipamiento para la integración de la resiliencia es necesario evaluar además su oportuna localización en el territorio. Los equipamientos son lugares útiles para las actividades de emergencias, por eso deben ser accesibles y adaptables a los cambios, como por ejemplo servir de alojamiento temporal después de un desastre natural (Villagra et al 2014;Project 2011;Allan y Bryant 2011).…”

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“…En presencia de riesgo los ecosistemas juegan un papel clave en los espacios urbanos, activándose durante la emergencia y proveyendo recursos básicos para la recuperación (Allan y Bryant 2011). La degradación y empobrecimiento del capital ecológico existente atenta al bienestar de las personas y a su capacidad de recuperación (Folke 2006;Walker et al 2015).…”

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Acercamiento teórico para la integración de los conceptos de Resiliencia en los indicadores de Sostenibilidad Urbana

Tumini

2016

Revista De Urbanismo

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Resumen El Marco de Sendai para la Reducción del Riesgo de Desastre 2015-2030 propone la resiliencia y la gestión integral del riesgo como requisito indispensable para el desarrollo sostenible. El artículo presenta una discusión sobre la aplicación en el entorno construido de los conceptos de sostenibilidad y resiliencia. Aunque se reconoce un cierto entendimiento entre sostenibilidad y resiliencia, es incierta la identificación de las sinergias entre ambos conceptos. El objetivo del trabajo es proponer, a través de un acercamiento teórico un marco metodológico para la incorporación de los atributos de la resiliencia en los instrumentos de planificación sostenible. En el documento se subrayan los elementos que requieren de un cambio de enfoque para la adaptación a las nuevas exigencias, así como las sinergias claves que deberían potenciarse para el éxito del entorno urbano. Palabras ClaveResiliencia urbana; ciudades sostenibles; planificación urbana AbstractThe Sendai framework for the Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030

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“…Moores and Semadeni-Davies (2015) evaluated resilience criteria for their relevance to the management of urban water bodies. While a range of strategies and principles that promote resilience in urban systems have been described by previous authors, most have in common the need for systems to incorporate redundancy, diversity, and adaptability in both technical and social elements (Walker and Salt 2006, Ahern 2011, Allan and Bryant 2011, Albers and Deppisch 2013. Within the context of the DSS, in which an urban aquatic social-ecological system is represented purely by its physical characteristics, Moores and Semadeni-Davies (2015) found that a number of technical criteria, especially those described by Ahern (2011), provided the greatest utility for distinguishing between alternative urban development and stormwater management scenarios.…”

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Evaluation of a new method for assessing resilience in urban aquatic social-ecological systems

Moores¹,

Yalden²,

Gadd³

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. 2017. Evaluation of a new method for assessing resilience in urban aquatic social-ecological systems. Ecology and Society 22 (4) ABSTRACT. Urban aquatic social-ecological systems (SESs) comprise socio-technical elements, the built environment and its management, and natural elements (water bodies) that provide ecosystem services. Changed hydrology, poor stormwater quality, and the modification of water bodies associated with urban development brings challenges for maintaining ecosystem services provision in an urban aquatic SES. Water sensitive urban design (WSUD) has emerged as a form of development that aims to better support the provision of ecosystem services. Resilience concepts provide a basis for discriminating between WSUD and conventional development approaches. Building on an existing decision support system, a new, preliminary method for assessing resilience based on the combination of the socio-technical capacity (STC) and natural capacity (NC) of urban aquatic SESs has been developed. The STC score reflects a multicriteria assessment of the characteristics of stormwater infrastructure and management. The NC score reflects an assessment of the state and trajectory of biophysical attributes of the system associated with the provision of ecosystem services. By modeling a series of future urban development scenarios in Auckland, New Zealand, the method has been shown to discriminate between scenario outcomes within constraints associated with the biophysical and built characteristics modeled. Results are consistent with key concepts of resilience theory: outcomes are grouped in regimes and exhibit hysteresis, with the ability of WSUD to improve the state of the system strongly influenced by the presence of legacy effects. The method provides a source of additional, valuable information that complements other indicators by providing a snapshot of the interaction of catchment management effort and outcomes and indicating the likely future state of the SES. Recognizing that the method is limited to providing a relative assessment of resilience and adopts certain simplistic assumptions, further research aims to investigate assessment methods that consider other, fundamental biophysical and social properties of urban aquatic SESs.

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Resilience as a framework for urbanism and recovery

Cited by 139 publications

References 20 publications

Resilience thinking and urban planning in a coastal environment at risks of tsunamis: the case study of Mehuín, Chile

Resilience thinking and urban planning in a coastal environment at risks of tsunamis: the case study of Mehuín, Chile

Acercamiento teórico para la integración de los conceptos de Resiliencia en los indicadores de Sostenibilidad Urbana

Evaluation of a new method for assessing resilience in urban aquatic social-ecological systems

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