Urban regions now & tomorrow : between vulnerability, resilience and transformation /
Deppisch, Sonja.editor.
This book points to three dominant concepts of how to deal with long-term or surprising and also sudden catastrophic changes, with a main focus on resilience. It is dealing with past, current and future change processes in European, Northern American as well as Australian cities and urban regions, and with the challenges they pose to a resilient urban development. Additionally, contributions deal with potential transformations of urban and regional development and related planning and governance approaches.
Includes bibliographical references.
Cities and urban regions under change: between vulnerability, resilience, transition and transformation / Sonja Deppisch -- The role of monitoring spatio-temporal change in achieving resilience of the suburban landscape / Eleni A. Athanasiadou and Maria Tratsela -- Beyond a fragmented and sector-oriented knowledge for a sustainable and resilient urban development. The case of the metropolitan city of Naples / Adriana Galderisi and Giada Limongi -- Resilience, sustainability and transformability of cities as complex adaptive systems / Marta Olazabal -- The challenge of change : planning for social urban resilience / Anna Widborg -- Sustainable disaster resilience? Tensions between socio-economic recovery and built environment post-disaster reconstruction in Abruzzo (Italy) / Grazia Di Giovanni and Lorenzo Chelleri -- Dealing with surprise in urban regions--some ideas and examples for planners / Gérard Hutter -- Resilience thinking as leitmotif in urban and regional planning dealing with climate change impacts / Sonja Deppisch -- Developing resilient urban waterfronts : integrating adaptation into urban development and management / Peter C. van Veelen -- Making infrastructure climate resilient : bridging the transformation gap with "living labs" / Ernst Schäfer and Ulrich Scheele -- From linear to circular- Challenges for changing urban metabolism?! An analysis of local energy transition activities in four European cities / Katharina Klindworth, Aleksandra Djurasovic, Jörg Knieling and Katja Säwert.
This book points to three dominant concepts of how to deal with long-term or surprising and also sudden catastrophic changes, with a main focus on resilience. It is dealing with past, current and future change processes in European, Northern American as well as Australian cities and urban regions, and with the challenges they pose to a resilient urban development. Additionally, contributions deal with potential transformations of urban and regional development and related planning and governance approaches.
Europe
North America
Australia
urban area
forward studies
economic reconstruction
adaptation to climate change
social change
psychology
natural disaster
sustainable development
town
development plan
Applied psychology.
Community and Environmental Psychology.