Resilience in the built environment

Hassler, Uta; Kohler, Niklaus

doi:10.1080/09613218.2014.873593

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Section: Community Resilience and The Built Environmentmentioning

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“…According to Hassler and Kohler [18], buildings and infrastructure stocks are the main components of the built environment. The physical, environmental, social, economic, and cultural resources of the city are developed as a result of interactions between humans and these components [18]. Hassler and Kohler [18] also characterize urban structure as a "complex socio-technical system" composed of different scales, ranging from buildings, to blocks, neighborhoods, cities, and regions.…”

Section: Community Resilience and The Built Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The physical, environmental, social, economic, and cultural resources of the city are developed as a result of interactions between humans and these components [18]. Hassler and Kohler [18] also characterize urban structure as a "complex socio-technical system" composed of different scales, ranging from buildings, to blocks, neighborhoods, cities, and regions. Each of these scales is characterized by different agents, temporal dynamics, and institutional systems [18].…”

Section: Community Resilience and The Built Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Hassler and Kohler [18] also characterize urban structure as a "complex socio-technical system" composed of different scales, ranging from buildings, to blocks, neighborhoods, cities, and regions. Each of these scales is characterized by different agents, temporal dynamics, and institutional systems [18]. According to this definition, the built environment is not just a physical construct.…”

Section: Community Resilience and The Built Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These differences and inconsistencies may render the concept unsuitable for framing and operationalizing planning and policy agendas. Despite these inconsistencies, some scholars consider resilience as a bridging concept [16], a mobile term [17], or a boundary object [1] that can be used to facilitate inter-and transdisciplinary collaborations [18]. As such, resilience may be a useful umbrella concept to develop transdisciplinary projects [19].…”

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Conceptualizing Dimensions and Characteristics of Urban Resilience: Insights from a Co-Design Process

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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: Community Resilience and The Built Environmentmentioning

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Section: Community Resilience and The Built Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Community Resilience and The Built Environmentmentioning

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Conceptualizing holistic community resilience to climate events: Foundation for a climate resilience screening index

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The concept of resilience has been evolving over the past decade as a way to address the current and future challenges nations, states, and cities face from a changing climate. Understanding how the environment (natural and built), climate event risk, societal interactions, and governance reflect community resilience for adaptive management is critical for envisioning urban and natural environments that can persist through extreme weather events and longer‐term shifts in climate. To be successful, this interaction of these five domains must result in maintaining quality of life and ensuring equal access to the benefits or the protection from harm for all segments of the population. An exhaustive literature review of climate resilience approaches was conducted examining the two primary elements of resilience—vulnerability and recoverability. The results of this review were examined to determine if any existing frameworks addressed the above five major areas in an integrated manner. While some aspects of a resilience model were available for existing sources, no comprehensive approach was available. A new conceptual model for resilience to climate events is proposed that incorporates some available structures and addresses these five domains at a national, regional, state, and county spatial scale for a variety of climate‐induced events ranging from superstorms to droughts and their concomitant events such as wildfires, floods, and pest invasions. This conceptual model will be developed in a manner that will permit comparisons among governance units (e.g., counties) and permit an examination of best reliance practices.

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Conversion Potential Assessment Tool

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Building Urban Resilience Through Change of Use

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Building owners and other stakeholders can adopt different strategies to cope with vacancy, such as consolidation, rent reduction, selling the building, renovation, transformation and conversion to adapted reuse, or demolish and build a new building. This chapter discusses various tools to cope with vacancy by adaptive reuse. It presents an overview of the many factors and aspects that enable or hinder adaptive reuse by conversion of (office) buildings into housing, and how to assess the characteristics of the market, location, building and involved stakeholders. Furthermore, it presents the Conversion Meter, a tool to assess the conversion potential of vacant office buildings into housing. The tool is built up from a first quick scan using veto criteria (Step 1) till a more detailed scan of the conversion potential based on gradual criteria (Step 2). No single gradual criterion is sufficient to decide if conversion is possible or not; it is the combination of all criteria i.e. the sum that provides a valuable indicator for the conversion potential.Step 3 calculates a conversion potential score as a weighted sum of all criteria.Step 4 is a scan on financial feasibility. The final Step 5 is a check on possible risks and opportunities to eliminate these risks. The chapter continues with lessons learned from case studies by applying the Conversion Meter.

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Resilience in the built environment

Cited by 194 publications

References 4 publications

Conceptualizing Dimensions and Characteristics of Urban Resilience: Insights from a Co-Design Process

Conceptualizing Dimensions and Characteristics of Urban Resilience: Insights from a Co-Design Process

Conceptualizing holistic community resilience to climate events: Foundation for a climate resilience screening index

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