Capital Building for Urban Resilience: The Case of Reconstruction Planning of Kesennuma City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan

Shao, Yiwen; Soda, Osamu; Xu, Jiang

doi:10.1016/j.proenv.2016.09.022

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“…This article makes use of the increasingly popular evolutionary approach to urban resilience ( [54] (p. 124), [55] (p. 106)). The approach emphasises a principle whereby transformations that constantly occur in systems necessitate the ability to learn and increase innovativeness [56] (p. 2).…”

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How to Deal with Crisis? Place Attachment as a Factor of Resilience of Urban–Rural Communes in Poland during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Guzal-Dec

Zwolińska-Ligaj

2023

Sustainability

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The phenomenon of place attachment as a community resilience determinant requires a detailed study and, as such, is not sufficiently explored in the literature. This study analyses both resilience determinants and resilience tools in order to provide local communities with optimum courses of action and decision makers with postulates concerning local development policies. Our goal is to determine the effect of place attachment on the activity of the local community in the process of the reconstruction of a local territorial unit following a crisis (COVID-19 pandemic) situation, as well as determine the symptoms of the crisis exemplified by urban–rural communes in Poland. Empirical research was carried out with regard to all 87 urban–rural communes in Poland with their seat in a small city with district rights. The respondents in the survey included individuals in governance positions: mayor/deputy mayor/secretary. Comparative analyses were performed on the entire group by juxtaposing communes located in peripheral regions (19 units) of the Eastern Poland Macroregion and the remaining communes (68). In light of the empirical research, communes located in Eastern Poland’s peripheral regions were more severely impacted by the COVID-19 crisis than ones situated elsewhere in Poland. In urban–rural communes located in peripheral regions, actions supporting the “ability to absorb” shocks are taken more frequently than those promoting “positive adaptability in anticipation of, or in response to, shocks”. Less frequent were proactive measures of innovative nature, involving “restoration and use” of the existing local resources, e.g., new methods of the use of natural resources by the households or new activities in the creative industry based on individual creativity, skills and talents. An analysis of all units reveals a generally low level of pro-resilience activities of the local communities in the communes investigated in the study except for the application of modern technologies/forms of remote communication. It was demonstrated that, in local communities with a high level of place attachment, activities aimed at building resilience are more frequent. For local governments, the results constitute proof of the importance of place attachment in building community resilience in local development policies. We should highlight the need for activities integrating urban and rural residents in urban–rural communes in order to create a shared space with which they could identify while strengthening bonds, thus raising the level of social capital. It is also necessary to look for ways to use IT, not only for communication processes, but also for managing crisis situations, in parallel with activities aimed at strengthening social capital.

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How to Deal with Crisis? Place Attachment as a Factor of Resilience of Urban–Rural Communes in Poland during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Guzal-Dec

Zwolińska-Ligaj

2023

Sustainability

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“…Holling's pioneering research on ecosystem resilience in 1973 is often considered to be the origin of modern resilience theory [13]. In the 1990s, the concept of resilience was introduced into the field of urban planning, and it has quickly become popular [14]. Although the term "resilience" appears frequently in urban studies nowadays, scholars have not reached a consensus on the definition [15,16].…”

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Predicting and Improving the Waterlogging Resilience of Urban Communities in China—A Case Study of Nanjing

Cui

Liu

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In recent years, urban communities in China have been continuously affected by extreme weather and emergencies, among which the rainstorm and waterlogging disasters pose a great threat to infrastructure and personnel safety. Chinese governments issue a series of waterlogging prevention and control policies, but the waterlogging prevention and mitigation of urban communities still needs to be optimized. The concept of “resilience” has unique advantages in the field of community disaster management, and building resilient communities can effectively make up for the limitations of the traditional top-down disaster management. Therefore, this paper focuses on the pre-disaster prevention and control of waterlogging in urban communities of China, following the idea of “concept analysis–influencing factor identification–evaluation indicators selection–impact mechanism analysis–resilience simulation prediction–empirical research–disaster adaptation strategy formulation”. The structural equation model and BP neural network are used by investigating the existing anti-waterlogging capitals of the target community to predict the future waterlogging resilience. Based on this simulation prediction model, and combined with the incentive and restraint mechanisms, suggestions on corrective measures can be put forward before the occurrence of waterlogging.

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“…And some scholars also empirically analyze the dynamic changes and infuencing factors of urban resilience in each province and city from the perspective of time and space [15,16]. Compared with the policies, implementing agencies, and multisectoral coordination mechanisms for building a resilient city in developed countries [17,18], China started late in the application of building a resilient city, and there are many defciencies. In planning and construction, there is a lack of applied governance research and policy guidance for urban resilience [19].…”

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The Driving Path of China’s Urban Resilience Enhancement in the Digital Economy Era

Tang

Jiang

Zhang

et al. 2023

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society

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Promoting the development of China’s digital economy and the level of urban disaster reduction and governance is of great significance for accelerating the improvement of China’s urban resilience and promoting the coordinated development of regional cities. This paper analyzed the spatial and temporal distribution characteristics and driving paths of urban resilience in 31 Chinese provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government and proposed relevant measures to promote urban resilience. First, the urban resilience evaluation system was constructed and the entropy value method was applied to calculate the urban resilience index of each region. Second, the spatial distribution of urban resilience was explored based on the urban resilience index of each region. Finally, a qualitative comparative analysis method was used to explore the driving paths of urban resilience enhancement. The study showed that there were large regional differences in the urban resilience index, with an overall spatial pattern of “good in the east, middle in the center, and low in the west” and an overall trend of gradual increase. There are five configuration paths to generate a high urban resilience index, which can be specifically digital industry-driven path, technology factor-driven path, government input- and talent pool-driven path under market factors, technology factor- and government factor-driven path, and government investment- and infrastructure-driven path under market factors, and it is found that the digital industry-driven path is a more common path of digital economy-driven urban resilience improvement in China. The finding of this study reveals the nature of complex interactions among drivers in the process of urban resilience enhancement in China, which breaks through the limitations of traditional statistical analysis methods and provides a new perspective for the study of urban resilience issues.

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Capital Building for Urban Resilience: The Case of Reconstruction Planning of Kesennuma City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan

Cited by 10 publications

References 7 publications

How to Deal with Crisis? Place Attachment as a Factor of Resilience of Urban–Rural Communes in Poland during the COVID-19 Pandemic

How to Deal with Crisis? Place Attachment as a Factor of Resilience of Urban–Rural Communes in Poland during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Predicting and Improving the Waterlogging Resilience of Urban Communities in China—A Case Study of Nanjing

The Driving Path of China’s Urban Resilience Enhancement in the Digital Economy Era

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