The turbulent world of resilience: interpretations and themes for transdisciplinary dialogue

Moser, Susanne C.; Meerow, Sara; Arnott, James; Jack-Scott, Emily

doi:10.1007/s10584-018-2358-0

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“…There are a number of primary categories associated with different variants of resilience that have their own independent conceptual and analytical frameworks-there is no one type of 'resilience' (Davidson et al 2016;Moser et al 2019). Among the categorical variants of resilience, it is 'disaster' and 'engineering' resilience that are most widely utilized in domestic multi-hazard and climate change planning in the U.S. (Keenan 2018).…”

Section: Resilience Planning Informs Covid Responsementioning

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COVID, resilience, and the built environment

Keenan

2020

Environ Syst Decis

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This article provides a perspective on the reciprocal relationships between public and private sector resilience planning activities and the ongoing COVID responses in the U.S. Through the lens of the built environment, this article provides selected insights into how various disaster, organizational, and engineering resilience activities have likely positively shaped COVID responses within the healthcare sector. These positive influences are contextualized within extensive efforts within public health and healthcare management to calibrate community resilience frameworks and practices for utilization in everything from advancing community health to the continuity of facilities operations. Thereafter, the article shifts focus to speculate on how ongoing experiences under COVID might yield positive impacts for future resilience designs, plans and policies within housing and the built environment. Through this perspective, the article hopes to explore those often overlooked aspects of the physical and social parameters of the built environment that may be understood as providing opportunities to inform future disaster, public health, and climate change preparations and responses.

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Section: Resilience Planning Informs Covid Responsementioning

confidence: 99%

COVID, resilience, and the built environment

Keenan

2020

Environ Syst Decis

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“…This expanding perspective of resilience to include adaptation/transformation is mirrored in the social science literature. As the concept of resilience has developed over time within the social‐ecological systems, urban planning and community development literature (among others; Davidson et al, 2016), generally there has been convergence towards a concept that incorporates adaptation and embraces the good and bad of stability and change (Djalante, Holley, & Thomalla, 2011; Moser, Meerow, Arnott, & Jack‐Scott, 2019). As with highly resilient but undesirable ecological systems (e.g.…”

Section: Looking Beyond Resiliencementioning

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Disturbances as opportunities: Learning from disturbance‐response parallels in social and ecological systems to better adapt to climate change

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Schultz

2020

Journal of Applied Ecology

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Disturbances (e.g. fires, floods, windstorms, landslides and tsunamis) are ubiquitous throughout the world. Many social and ecological systems have resilience mechanisms to accommodate and recover from such events. Yet, in an era of directional climate change, adaptation (rather than recovery to the same state) may be the most logical path. In such cases, disturbances, while often unwelcome, may function as opportunities for change. We synthesize the literature on disturbances and adaptation to climate change for both ecological and social systems, attempting to find commonalities and situations where disturbances present adaptation opportunities. We also identify three major characteristics of systems that may drive differential potential for success going forward: their overall richness of actors, their functional overlap in diversity, and their temporal rate of change. Social systems are better positioned to successfully take advantage of disturbance‐generated opportunities to adapt when they support collaboration of diverse interests and engage in pre‐disturbance response planning to seize opportunities when they arise. Ecological systems are well‐positioned for adaptation when they are diverse, populated with species that are tolerant of post‐disturbance environments, and when life‐history traits are well‐matched with the temporal and spatial distribution of those disturbances. Social systems with a lack of planning and inclusive participation and where powerful actors are resistant to change are less able to take advantage of disturbances as adaptational opportunities; ecological systems that are less diverse (spatially and in regards to species composition), especially those dominated by late successional species, are similarly constrained. Overall, we find that disturbances can create opportunities for adaptation when the ecology and social systems are aligned but there are also many situations where this is not true, depending on initial conditions, temporal pace of disturbance and system characteristics. Policy implications. Disturbances, while damaging and often catastrophic in the short term, present climate adaptation opportunities because they can spur reorganization towards climatically suitable systems. Policy makers and advocates should carefully consider current social and ecological conditions, specifically how they will reorganize post‐disturbance, and explore the options available to prepare and take advantage of (inevitable) future disturbances.

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“…It is not intended to further expand the theoretical debate of the resilience concept, as this has been conducted thoroughly in previous studies [17,35,36]. Nevertheless, for a comprehensible operationalization and measuring procedure in GIS, a pragmatic definition has to be chosen which shows the key aspects of climate resilience of a city with respect to its social-ecological systems [37].…”

Section: A Brief Review Of Understanding and Measuring Climate Resilimentioning

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How Can Climate Resilience Be Measured and Visualized? Assessing a Vague Concept Using GIS-Based Fuzzy Logic

2020

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As negative impacts of climate change tend to increase in the future, densely-populated cities especially need to take action on being robust against natural hazards. Consequently, there is a growing interest from scientists in measuring the climate resilience of cities and regions. However, current measurements are usually assessed on administrative levels, not covering potential hotspots of hazardous or sensitive areas. The main aim of this paper focusses on the measurement of climate resilience in the City of Dortmund, Germany, using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Based on a literature review, we identified five essential components of climate resilience and initially designed a theoretical framework of 18 indicators. Since climate resilience is still a vague concept in scientific discourses, we implemented local expert knowledge and fuzzy logic modelling into our analysis. The benefit of this study not only lies in the fine-scale application, but also in the relevance for multiple disciplines by integrating social and ecological factors. We conclude that climate resilience varies within the city pattern, with the urban core tending to be less resilient than its surrounding districts. As almost the entire geodata set used is freely available, the presented indicators and methods are to a certain degree applicable to comparable cities.

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The turbulent world of resilience: interpretations and themes for transdisciplinary dialogue

Cited by 149 publications

References 62 publications

COVID, resilience, and the built environment

COVID, resilience, and the built environment

Disturbances as opportunities: Learning from disturbance‐response parallels in social and ecological systems to better adapt to climate change

How Can Climate Resilience Be Measured and Visualized? Assessing a Vague Concept Using GIS-Based Fuzzy Logic

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