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Get lost framing Urban Resilience? Don’t worry, this section could help you in better understanding this multifaced concept

We developed this brief list of references in order to frame some of the important academic contributions that can help broaden your conceptualization of urban resilience, and clarify its multifaceted nature. After different brainstorming and literature reviews, our multidisciplinary team decided to propose a list of the most representative, clear, and exhaustive papers from different disciplines. While this section is periodically revisited and up-dated, this is a very dynamic and rapidly expanding field. Please don’t hesitate to send us suggestions if you think we have missed key articles.

If you are interested in downloading all the citations in the Resources section, you can do it HERE in .RIS format

URBAN RESILIENCE OVERVIEW (Integrated – multidisciplinary introductions on the concept)

Coaffee, J., & Lee, P. (2016). Urban Resilience: Planning for Risk, Crisis and Uncertainty. London: Palgrave Macmillan
Meerow, S., Newell, J. P., & Stults, M. (2016). Defining urban resilience: A review. Landscape and Urban Planning, 147, 38-49. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2015.11.011
Pearson, L., P. Newton and P. Roberts (2014). Resilient Sustainable Cities: A Future. New York: Routledge
Elmqvist, T. (2014). Urban resilience thinking. Solutions, 5(5), 26-30. Retrieved from: https://www.thesolutionsjournal.com/article/urban-resilience-thinking/
Stumpp, E.-M. (2013). New in town? On resilience and “Resilient Cities”. Cities, 32, 164-166. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2013.01.003
Chelleri, L., & Olazabal, M. (2012). Multidisciplinary perspectives on urban resilience: A workshop report. Bilbao: Basque Centre for Climate Change
Chelleri, L. (2012). From the “resilient city” to urban resilience. A review essay on understanding and integrating the resilience perspective for urban systems. Documents d’Anàlisi Geogràfica, 58(2), 287-306. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.5565/rev/dag.175

URBAN RESILIENCE FROM SESs POINT OF VIEW (strong link with sustainability science)

McPhearson, T., Andersson, E., Elmqvist, T., & Frantzeskaki, N. (2015). Resilience of and through urban ecosystem services. Ecosystem Services, 12, 152-156. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2014.07.012
Elmqvist, T. (2014). Urban resilience thinking. Solutions, 5(5), 26-30. Retrieved from: https://www.thesolutionsjournal.com/article/urban-resilience-thinking/
Pearson, L., P. Newton and P. Roberts (2014). Resilient Sustainable Cities: A Future. New York: Routledge
Ernstson, H., van der Leeuw, S. E., Redman, C. L., Meffert, D. J., Davis, G., Alfsen, C., & Elmqvist, T. (2010). Urban transitions: on urban resilience and human-dominated ecosystems. Ambio, 39(8), 531-545.doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-010-0081-9

URBAN RESILIENCE FROM PLANNING PERSPECTIVE

Voskamp, I. M., & Van de Ven, F. H. M. (2015). Planning support system for climate adaptation: Composing effective sets of blue-green measures to reduce urban vulnerability to extreme weather events. Building and Environment, 83, 159-167. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2014.07.018
Coaffee, J. (2013). Towards next-generation urban resilience in planning practice: from securitization to integrated place making. Planning Practice & Research, 28(3), 323-339. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02697459.2013.787693
Lu, P., & Stead, D. (2013). Understanding the notion of resilience in spatial planning: a case study of Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Cities, 35, 200-212. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2013.06.001
O’Hare, P., & White, I. (2013). Deconstructing Resilience: Lessons from Planning Practice. Planning Practice & Research, 28(3), 275-279. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02697459.2013.787721
Albers, M., & Deppisch, S. (2012). Resilience in the light of climate change: useful approach or empty phrase for spatial planning? European Planning Studies, 21(10), 1598-1610. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2012.722961
Davoudi, S., Shaw, K., Haider, L. J., Quinlan, A. E., Peterson, G. D., Wilkinson, C., Porter, L. (2012). Resilience: a bridging concept or a dead end? “Reframing” resilience: challenges for planning theory and practice. Interacting traps: resilience assessment of a pasture management system in Northern Afghanistan. Urban resilience: what does it mean in planning practice? Resilience as a useful concept for climate change adaptation? The politics of resilience for planning: a cautionary note. Planning Theory & Practice, 13(2), 299-333. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2012.677124
Wilkinson, C. (2012). Social-ecological resilience: insights and issues for planning theory.Planning Theory, 11(2), 148-169. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1473095211426274

URBAN RESILIENCE FROM CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PERSPECTIVE

Aldunce, P., Bórquez, R., Adler, C., Blanco, G., & Garreaud, R. (2016). Unpacking resilience for adaptation: Incorporating practitioners’ experiences through a transdisciplinary approach to the case of drought in Chile. Sustainability, 8(9). doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su8090905
Meerow, S., & Stults, M. (2016). Comparing conceptualizations of urban climate resilience in theory and practice. Sustainability, 8(7). doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su8070701
Zaidi, R. Z., & Pelling, M. (2015). Institutionally configured risk: Assessing urban resilience and disaster risk reduction to heat wave risk in London. Urban Studies, 52(7), 1218-1233. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098013510957
Friend, R., & Moench, M. (2013). What is the purpose of urban climate resilience? Implications for addressing poverty and vulnerability. Urban climate, 6, 98-113. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2013.09.002
Satterthwaite, D. (2013). The political underpinnings of cities’ accumulated resilience to climate change. Environment and Urbanization, 25(2), 381-391. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956247813500902
Liao, K.H. (2012). A Theory on urban resilience to floods: A basis for alternative planning practices. Ecology and Society, 17(4). doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-05231-170448
Tyler, S., & Moench, M. (2012). A framework for urban climate resilience. Climate and Development, 4(4), 311-326. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2012.745389
Leichenko, R. (2011). Climate change and urban resilience. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 3(3), 164-168. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2010.12.014
Pelling, M. (2011). Adaptation to Climate Change: from resilience to transformation. London: Routledge
Newman, P., Beatley, T., & Boyer, H. (2009). Resilient Cities: Responding to peak oil and climate change. Washington: Island Press.

URBAN RESILIENCE FROM HAZARD AND DISASTER RISK REDUCTION PERSPECTIVE

Cutter, S. L., Ash, K. D., & Emrich, C. T. (2016). Urban–Rural differences in disaster resilience. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 106(6), 1236-1252. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2016.1194740
Wamsler, C. (2014). Cities, disaster risk and adaptation. London and New York: Routledge
Serre, D., Barroca, B., & Laganier, R. (Eds.). (2012). Resilience and Urban Risk Management. New York: CRC Press
Vale, L. J., & Campanella, T. J. (Eds.). (2005). The resilient city. How modern cities recover from disaster. Oxford: Oxford University Press, USA
Godschalk, D. R. (2003). Urban hazard mitigation: creating resilient cities. Natural hazards review, 4(3), 136-143. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)1527-6988(2003)4:3(136)
Pelling, M. (2003). The vulnerability of cities: natural disasters and social resilience. London: Earthscan.

URBAN RESILIENCE FROM COMMUNITY AND SOCIOLOGIC PERSPECTIVE

Mulligan, M., Steele, W., Rickards, L., & Fünfgeld, H. (2016). Keywords in planning: what do we mean by ‘community resilience’? International Planning Studies, 1-14. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13563475.2016.1155974
Sharifi, A. (2016). A critical review of selected tools for assessing community resilience. Ecological Indicators, 69, 629-647. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.05.023
Brudermann, T., Rauter, R., & Yamagata, Y. (2013). Behavioral aspects of urban resilience. Innovation and Supply Chain Management, 7(3), 83-91. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.14327/iscm.7.83
Steele, W., & Mittal, N. (2012). Building ‘equitable’ urban resilience: The challenge for cities. In K. Otto-Zimmermann (Ed.), Resilient Cities 2 (Vol. 2, pp. 187-195). Dordrecht: Springer
Hopkins, R. (2008). The Transition Handbook: from oil dependency to local resilience. Totnes: Chelsea Green Publishing

URBAN RESILIENCE FROM URBAN DESIGN POINT OF VIEW

Copley, N., Bowring, J., & Abbott, M. (2015). Thinking ahead: design-directed research in a city which experienced fifty years of sea level change overnight. Journal of Landscape Architecture, 10(2), 70-81. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18626033.2015.1058577
Hassler, U., & Kohler, N. (2014). Resilience in the built environment. Building Research & Information, 42(2), 119-129. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2014.873593
Pickett, S. T. A., Cadenasso, M. L., & McGrath, B. (Eds.). (2013). Resilience in Ecology and Urban Design: Linking theory and practice for sustainable cities. New York: Springer.

URBAN RESILIENCE FROM THE REGIONAL ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE

Martin, R., & Sunley, P. (2015). On the notion of regional economic resilience: conceptualization and explanation. Journal of Economic Geography, 15(1), 1-42. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbu015
Lang, T. (2012). How do cities and regions adapt to socio-economic crisis? Towards an institutionalist approach to urban and regional resilience. Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 70(4), 285-291. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13147-012-0170-2
Simmie, J., & Martin, R. (2010). The economic resilience of regions: towards an evolutionary approach. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 3(1), 27-43. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsp029

NEW EMERGING PARADIGMS RELATED TO URBAN RESILIENCE

Gender Perspectives in resilience

Ravera, F., Iniesta-Arandia, I., Martín-López, B., Pascual, U., & Bose, P. (2016b). Special Issue: Gender perspectives in resilience, vulnerability and adaptation to global environmental change. Ambio, 45(3). Retrieved from http://link.springer.com/journal/13280/45/3/suppl/page/1
Ravera, F., Iniesta-Arandia, I., Martín-López, B., Pascual, U., & Bose, P. (2016a). Gender perspectives in resilience, vulnerability and adaptation to global environmental change. Ambio, 45(3), 235-247. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-016-0842-1

Urban resilience of infrastructures

Coaffee, J., & Clarke, J. (2016). Critical infrastructure lifelines and the politics of anthropocentric resilience. Resilience, 1-21. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21693293.2016.1241475
McDaniels, T. L., Chang, S. E., Hawkins, D., Chew, G., & Longstaff, H. (2015). Towards disaster-resilient cities: an approach for setting priorities in infrastructure mitigation efforts. Environment Systems and Decisions, 35(2), 252-263. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10669-015-9544-7

Trade-offs of urban resilience

Chelleri, L., Waters, J. J., Olazabal, M., & Minucci, G. (2015). Resilience trade-offs: addressing multiple scales and temporal aspects of urban resilience. Environment and Urbanization, 27(1), 181-198. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956247814550780
Elmqvist, T. (2014). Urban resilience thinking. Solutions, 5(5), 26-30. Retrieved from: https://www.thesolutionsjournal.com/article/urban-resilience-thinking/
Ahern, J. (2011). From fail-safe to safe-to-fail: Sustainability and resilience in the new urban world. Landscape and Urban Planning, 100(4), 341-343. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2011.02.021

URBAN RESILIENCE CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES

DeVerteuil, G., & Golubchikov, O. (2016). Can resilience be redeemed? City, 20(1), 143-151. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2015.1125714
de Jong, M., Joss, S., Schraven, D., Zhan, C., & Weijnen, M. (2015). Sustainable–smart–resilient–low carbon–eco–knowledge cities; making sense of a multitude of concepts promoting sustainable urbanization. Journal of Cleaner Production, 109, 25-38. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.02.004
Pizzo, B. (2015). Problematizing resilience: Implications for planning theory and practice. Cities, 43(0), 133-140. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2014.11.015
Wagenaar, H., & Wilkinson, C. (2015). Enacting resilience: A performative account of governing for urban resilience. Urban Studies, 52(7), 1265-1284. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098013505655
Weichselgartner, J. and I. Kelman. (2015). Geographies of resilience: Challenges and opportunities of a descriptive concept. Progress in human geography, 39(3), 249-267. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309132513518834
Vale, L. J. (2014). The politics of resilient cities: whose resilience and whose city? Building Research & Information, 42(2), 191-201. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2014.850602
MacKinnon, D., & Derickson, K. D. (2013). From resilience to resourcefulness: A critique of resilience policy and activism. Progress in human geography, 37(2), 253-270. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309132512454775

BACKGROUND YOU SHOULD HAVE ON RESILIENCE THEORY (Not urban)

Matyas, D. and M. Pelling (2015). Positioning resilience for 2015: the role of resistance, incremental adjustment and transformation in disaster risk management policy. Disasters, 39(s1), s1-s18. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/disa.12107
Alexander, D. E. (2013). Resilience and disaster risk reduction: an etymological journey. Natural Hazards and Earth System Science, 13(11), 2707-2716. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/nhess-13-2707-2013
Folke, C. (2006). Resilience: the emergence of a perspective for social–ecological systems analyses. Global environmental change, 16(3), 253-267. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2006.04.002
Gallopín, G. C. (2006). Linkages between vulnerability, resilience, and adaptive capacity. Global environmental change, 16(3), 293-303. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2006.02.004
Hollnagel, E., Woods, D. D., & Leveson, N. (Eds.). (2006). Resilience Engineering: Concepts and Precepts. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited.
Manyena, S. B. (2006). The concept of resilience revisited. Disasters, 30(4), 434-450. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0361-3666.2006.00331.x
O’Brien, G., O’Keefe, P., Rose, J., & Wisner, B. (2006). Climate change and disaster management. Disasters, 30(1), 64-80. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9523.2006.00307.x
Walker, B., & Salt, D. (2006). Resilience Thinking: Sustaining ecosystems and people in a changing world. Washington: Island Press.
Klein, R. J. T., Nichollsb, R. J., & Thomallaa, F. (2003). Resilience to natural hazards: How useful is this concept? Environmental Hazards, 5, 35-45. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hazards.2004.02.001
Tobin, G. A. (1999). Sustainability and community resilience: the holy grail of hazards planning? Global Environmental Change Part B: Environmental Hazards, 1(1), 13-25. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1464-2867(99)00002-9
Batabyal, A. A. (1998). The concept of resilience: retrospect and prospect. Environment and Development Economics, 3(02), 221-262. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1355770X98230129

ABOUT THIS COMPILATION

This list has been developed for orientating PhD Candidates or whom would like to have an overall multidisciplinary introduction on urban resilience for academic porpoises. We are implementing the list adding also the most influential and recent documents (not peer-reviewed) from important consultant agencies – NGOs – International organizations. In the meanwhile, for any query or suggestion about which reference would be useful to include, please write to the resources – section member in charge Grazia Di Giovanni at grazia.digiovanni@gssi.infn.it