Resilience Imperative: Uncertainty, Risks and Disasters

"We have to adapt to the impacts that, unfortunately, we can no longer avoid", said President Obama at the UN Climate Summit in September 2014. Adaptation and resilience are now a must in both academic research and international bodies. A fashionable concept, resilience's polysemy sparks many debates on its uses and operational relevance.

This book bridges the increasing divide between academic research and the latest planning innovations, offering practical and conceptual insights for practitioners, researchers and students. Magali Reghezza-Zitt and Samuel Rufat present a cross-disciplinary, state-of-the-art debate and critical analysis of the social, spatial, practical and political implications of resilience.

Links the latest cross-disciplinary academic insights with the up-to-date, practical innovations

1. Defining resilience: when the concept resists
2. Resilience and vulnerability: from opposition towards a continuum
3. Resilience: a question of scale
4. Resilience: a systemic property
5. From the resilience of constructions to the resilience of territories: A new framework for thought and for action
6. Adapting territorial systems through their components: the case of critical networks
7. Resilience and global climate change
8. Organizational resilience: preparing and overcoming crisis
9. (re)constructing resilient districts: experiences compared
10. Resilience, memory and practices
11. Critique of pure resilience