Resilience in the social and physical realms: Lessons from the Gulf Coast

Carpenter, Ann

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2014.09.003

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“…Although the role of connectivity in resilience potential is considered complex and controversial [41,42], maintaining appropriate connectivity is obviously significant in urban areas where serious fragmentation and heterogeneity are basic characteristics. The connectivity of the urban landscape improves resilience by promoting the capacity of self-organization, which is especially imperative for a perturbed system, and by increasing the integrity of urban fabric to generate an organic and interdependent system [43]. Additionally, the well-connected natural landscape helps to support ecological functions and protect biodiversity in cities, which plays a vital role in alleviating and addressing social-ecological challenges.…”

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Landscape-Based Assessment of Urban Resilience and Its Evolution: A Case Study of the Central City of Shenyang

2019

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Urban resilience is increasingly considered a useful approach to accommodate uncertainties while achieving sustainability in urban systems, especially in the context of rapid urbanization and global environmental change. However, current research on the quantitative assessment of urban resilience is limited. This study introduces four proxies of urban resilience, i.e., diversity, connectivity, decentralization, and self-sufficiency, and the perspective of the urban landscape for the measurement of urban resilience and further guidance on planning practices by establishing connections between resilience potential and landscape characteristics. Using multi-source data and employing landscape-based analysis methods, urban resilience is investigated from 1995 to 2015 in the central city of Shenyang. The results indicate that the composition and configuration of the urban landscape changed significantly during this period, which had a great influence on urban resilience. The temporal and spatial evolution of urban resilience showed obviously directional preferences and an evident distance effect. Overall, the resilience level increased slightly, while the internal differences experienced a declining trend. The four characteristics can be deployed as practical principles to shape urban resilience. The adjustment and trade-offs of these aspects to enhance responsive structures and simultaneously maintain sustainable ecosystem services can be effective ways to realize long-term resilience.

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Landscape-Based Assessment of Urban Resilience and Its Evolution: A Case Study of the Central City of Shenyang

2019

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“…Social capital was shown to be important in the recovery after Hurricane Sandy, where it was found that "people living in neighbourhoods with more social connections were more resilient (The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 2014). But incorporating 'social resilience' into planning and action is difficult (Carpenter, 2015;Patwardhan, 2016). Many of the non-physical capitals are often ignored and unnoticed due to the complications related to identifying and measuring them (Jones, 2016;Ove Arup and Partners, 2015a).…”

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A review of approaches for monitoring and evaluation of urban climate resilience initiatives

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Das

2016

Environ Dev Sustain

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Abstract:There are numerous challenges that evaluators face when determining the success of urban climate resilience initiatives (e.g., how to attribute impacts to initiatives). Fortunately, a growing body of literature --much of it dealing with climate change adaptation--has emerged which can help address these challenges. This narrative review of academic and grey literature reviews various monitoring and evaluation methods that can assess the inputs, processes, outputs, outcomes, and impacts that result from climate resilience planning and action. Since there is no commonly accepted monitoring and evaluation approach, the literature stresses the importance of acknowledging the context in which resilience is being evaluated, in order to ensure that appropriate methods are chosen. This context includes the ways that the resilience framework and definition chosen for a project constrain and determine the monitoring and evaluation approaches which can be adopted. As a result of this, a blend of quantitative and qualitative approaches is often recommended, with sufficient evidence suggesting that qualitative approaches (e.g., outcome harvesting) are essential. Nuanced approaches to monitoring and evaluation give evaluators additional means of reporting progress, and of demonstrating success, which is especially important as cities begin to implement resilience initiatives in the coming years.

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“…Investigation of the implications of socio-economic change on the building of bonds for solidarity shows these bonds as fundamental to cooperation and collective action, especially in conditions of economic trauma or natural disasters (Carpenter, 2014;Forno, & Graziano, 2014) and within the framework of intergenerational relations (Hodgkin, 2014).…”

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Resilience in the social and physical realms: Lessons from the Gulf Coast

Cited by 49 publications

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Landscape-Based Assessment of Urban Resilience and Its Evolution: A Case Study of the Central City of Shenyang

Landscape-Based Assessment of Urban Resilience and Its Evolution: A Case Study of the Central City of Shenyang

A review of approaches for monitoring and evaluation of urban climate resilience initiatives

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