guest author: prof. Joshua Bolchover, The University of Hong Kong For thousands of years, Mongolians have been living in gers – portable structures made of timber, felt and canvas. The ger is a resilient, engineered artefact that has evolved in direct correlation to...
Guest author: Prof. Edward Blakely On April the 6th, 2017 Prof. Edward Blakely, the Former Recovery Director Post-Katrina floods in New Orleans, has been invited to deliver a keynote speech held at the Gran Sasso Science Institute, on the occasion of the 8th...
Author: Dr. Geoffrey DeVerteuil School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University UK Resilience has proven to be a popular yet vexatious concept of late in urban studies and urban geography. Criticisms are many – that it props up the status quo, in this case an...
Guest authors: Prof. Simin Davoudi1, 2, Prof. Jim Bohland1, Prof. Paul Knox1 and Dr. Jennifer Lawrence1 1Global Forum on Urban and Regional Resilience at Virginia Tech and 2Newcastle University In 2012, the headline in a New York Times article suggested that we should...
Guest author: Stephan Barthel (University of Gävle, Stockholm University and Stockholm Resilience Centre) Social-Ecological Research has approached the city as a living ecosystem, an approach that really begun with the urban scholars of the early 1900s. But new...
guest author: Prof. Stefan Bouzarovski (University of Manchester) Adaptive capacity and resilience are now seen as desirable qualities for a wide range of social actors and dynamics: from individuals coping with personal stress, to cities that may be vulnerable to...
Author: Prof. Shade T. Shutter (Arizona State University) As Ian Kelman previously wrote here, Resilience can mean almost anything. And yet its presence in the scientific literature has undergone an explosive growth, with resilience-themed listings in the Web of...
Guest Authors: Dr. Sebastiaan van Herk 1,2, Carolina Hollmann1 and Prof. Chris Zevenbergen2 1 - Bax & Willems 2- UNESCO-IHE With climate change mitigation and adaptation increasingly present on the urban agenda, many local governments aim to increase resilience of...
Guest Author: Prof. Ilan Kelman (University College London) So much has been written about 'resilience' that it could mean almost anything. How useful (or not) is resilience for people affected by development concerns such as disaster risk, including climate change...
Guest Author: Prof. Jon Coaffee (University of Warwick) This century, more than any other, is the century of the city, where rapid urbanisation and greater global connectedness present unprecedented urban challenges. Such increased urbanisation also concentrates risk...