Spatial Resilience in Planning: Meanings, Challenges, and Perspectives for Urban Transition

Brunetta, Grazia; Caldarice, Ombretta

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-71061-7_28-1

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“…To this end, these local organizational capacities, as derived from the nexus between disaster recovery planning and resilience, stipulate the concept of 'safety culture', which is inherently linked to response experiences and knowledge acquired. As a matter of fact, among the elements that enable resilience building, several scholars [16][17][18] underline the importance of issues such as: the quality of the pre-disaster physical fabric (e.g., age and status of buildings and infrastructures), emergency and post disaster-recovery experiences, the efficacy-quality of repair and new building construction [19][20][21], the institutional/governance capacity for disaster management, reconstruction [22,23], infrastructure and spatial planning [24,25], and risk perception [26]. Among a variety of conceptual and methodological frameworks that have been developed, Manyena [27] identifies two major approaches of resilience.…”

Section: Resilience Building and The Role Of Disaster Recovery Procesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this context, recovery creates an 'added value' that influences governance structures and the development of a knowledge base that is absorbed at various levels of disaster management decision-making [29,30]. Resilience characteristics are built upon the aforementioned processes and 'learning from errors' in a constant attempt to reorganize material and immaterial components of a spatial system [25] and improve its capacity to deal with unexpected events and crises [3]. Disaster and recovery experiences have (in many cases) activated learning mechanisms leaving a legacy of knowledge, which in turn has demarcated subsequent development trajectories.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Disaster Recovery Practices and Resilience Building in Greece

2021

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This paper aims to elaborate on the notion of resilience by analysing the historical long-term impact of recovery processes that follow catastrophic events. In this respect, the approach reveals the importance of two major dimensions of disaster recovery practices: the establishment of an effective resilience milieu in conjunction with the generation of safety knowledge. The analysis focuses on two island case studies in Greece that experienced devastating earthquakes in the 1950s: Cephalonia (Ionian Sea) and Santorini (South Aegean Sea). Both insular cases underwent a comprehensive and (in many respects) innovative reconstruction process that set the scene for establishing a ‘resilience milieu’ and, in a dialectical manner, a ‘safety culture’, which for many years has been embedded in local development trajectories and influenced spatial growth dynamics.

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Section: Resilience Building and The Role Of Disaster Recovery Procesmentioning

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Disaster Recovery Practices and Resilience Building in Greece

2021

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“…According to this definition, it is possible to state that the co-evolutive resilience, theoretically defined by Davoudi (2012), is today applied as transformative within policies (as experimented in COVID-19 emergency). In this perspective, it is interesting to highlight the difference in terminology between science, policy and practice: resilience is defined "co-evolutionary resilience" by academics (Brunetta and Caldarice 2020), "transformative resilience" by policy-makers (Giovannini et al 2020), and finally merely "resilience" by practitioners as commonly a synonymous of sustainability in practice (Meerow and Stults 2016).…”

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“…The common ground of all the different meanings of resilience is that local and global dynamics and events-which nature is significantly diversified-threaten our societies and our cities. Whilst there is a large number of interpretations about principles and characteristics given to resilience from science, policy and practice, in this paper we assume that resilience aims at increasing the ability of urban systems to respond systemically and dynamically to present and future shocks related to significant global challenges as unsustainable development patterns, rapid and unplanned urbanisation, climate change, and social inequalities (Brunetta and Caldarice 2020).…”

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The relevance of science-policy-practice dialogue. Exploring the urban climate resilience governance in Italy

2021

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The concept of resilience has been developed for over 40 years in different disciplines. The academic discussion on defining resilience is thriving to create interdisciplinary understandings and meanings. Simultaneously, resilience has firmly entered into planning practice to address vulnerabilities and cities' exposure facing to present and future hazards particularly related to climate change effects. In the last twenty years, a growing number of cities are adopting local climate actions, and urban resilience is also gradually a crucial part of international and national policies worldwide. Despite the increasing attention to urban resilience, its implementation at the local scale and the required increasing ambition are still lagging, also due to a lack of dialogue among researchers (the scientific level), policy-makers (the normative level) and practitioners (the operational level). Following the 2018 CitiesIPCC Research and Action Agenda recommendations, this paper contributes to improving understanding barriers, opportunities, and needs for science-policy-practice dialogue for urban climate resilience. The paper analyses the urban climate resilient strategiesstrategies of the Italian metropolitan cities, concluding that a science-policy-practice dialogue is lacking in implementing evidence-based climate change resilience policies and actions actions at the local scale. Starting from the Italian case study, the paper suggests an iterative process to unlock the science-policy-practice dialogue for contributing to operationalise urban climate resilience fostering thanks to a multiscalar governance approach.

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“…The implication of this definition in the urban planning agenda is that resilience becomes a normative concept for territorial systems and mainly refers to how a new approach to spatial development supporting the adaptation and transformation of the system could be traced. At the same time, spatial resilience implies that territorial systems continually self-organize and adapt in the face of ongoing and unpredicted changes [12].…”

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Mapping Urban Resilience for Spatial Planning—A First Attempt to Measure the Vulnerability of the System

Brunetta

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2019

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The concept of ‘resilience’ breaks down silos by providing a ‘conceptual umbrella’ under which different disciplines come together to tackle complex problems with more holistic interventions. Acknowledging the complexity of Davoudi’s approach (2012) means to recognize that ‘spatial resilience’ is influenced by many phenomena that are difficult to measure: the adaptation and transformation of a co-evolutive system. This paper introduces a pioneering approach that is propaedeutic to the spatial measure of urban resilience assuming that it is possible to define a system as being intrinsically vulnerable to stress and shocks and minimally resilient, as described by Folke in 2006. In this sense, vulnerability is counterpoised to resilience, even if they act simultaneously: the first includes the exposure to a specific hazard, whereas the second emerges from the characteristics of a complex socio-ecological and technical system. Here we present a Geographic Information System-based vulnerability matrix performed in ESRI ArcGIS 10.6 environment as an output of the spatial interaction between sensitivities, shocks, and linear pressures of the urban system. The vulnerability is the first step of measuring the resilience of the system by a semi-quantitative approach. The spatial interaction of these measures is useful to define the interventions essential to designing and building the adaptation of the built environment by planning governance. Results demonstrate how mapping resilience aids the spatial planning decision-making processes, indicating where and what interventions are necessary to adapt and transform the system.

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Spatial Resilience in Planning: Meanings, Challenges, and Perspectives for Urban Transition

Cited by 15 publications

References 35 publications

Disaster Recovery Practices and Resilience Building in Greece

Disaster Recovery Practices and Resilience Building in Greece

The relevance of science-policy-practice dialogue. Exploring the urban climate resilience governance in Italy

Mapping Urban Resilience for Spatial Planning—A First Attempt to Measure the Vulnerability of the System

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