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...
The overarching theme of this session is community resilience and the topic particularly called on responses around resilience itself. Contributions argued the inability of the resilience framework to include local knowledge and social capital generated into its...
As part of this session, issues of governance in relation to information management, sharing and accessibility, and the benefits and risks of digitalization for resiliency building, governance and environmental experiences were central to the discussion.The session...
The session “Marginality, Inclusiveness, and Resilience”, takes a variety of approaches to address the topic of urban resilience. Focussing on the resilience of marginalised communities or landscapes, most presenters organised themselves around the frames of...
In the session of resilience observatories and labs, resilience has been framed as bringing in sustainable solutions to complex social and environmental challenges. Resilience articulates inclusivity, holistic approach, multi-sectoral alliances, and connections to...
This sessions focuses on many methods and projects within the BEGIN framework, a collaborative project that takes place between 10 cities and 6 research institutions in the North Sea Region. The goal of the project is to promote City to City learning and social...
Wery often the plans carried out are not enough framed or they remain just rhetoric on paper. The main challenge of these author is to provide a policy recommendation for land use control, by empowering the nature-based solutions and climate resilience on one hand,...
This session focused on the factors working both in favour and against the ability of a communities to recover, adapt and transform from crises.Resilience was broadly framed in response to natural disaster (Ryokawa, Gonçalves and Ortiz) and economic shock (Masik). The...
The session topic “Housing, economy and community-led actions” has focussed mainly on the importance of existing social networks for building resilience. People and communities gained relevance not only as the primary target of resilience, but as the main actors in...
The Panel on "City-University & Resilience” and its approach to diverse government-university partnerships in diverse projects is providing a new understanding of urban resilience implementations.The Cambridge Dictionary defines reframe as the action to change the...
The Urban Resilience Perspectives session approaches how different sectors understand resilience and the conflicts that might issue from these disparities.The session Urban Resilience Perspectives, part of the Topic 2: Climate Resilience, Governance and Planning...
The central theme of this session was the importance of social resilience in the framework of urban resilience. Social capital paving a way for social resilience is one of the most important aspects of holistic urban resilience.Studies show that the current wave of...
The special session on "Culture and Resilience" focused on the research and papers developed under the INCA project, a decision support framework for improving cross-border area resilience to disasters.The objective of the INCA project by authors from MINES ParisTech,...
In the era of climate change a lot has been discussed regarding urban resilience. This is considered to be a desirable state that refers to the ability of an urban system to rapidly return to its normal state of functions after a shock or disturbance.In the session...
Cities are complex ecosystems that present both, challenges and opportunities to the environment and its population. Resilience in this sense can be seen as a way of persistence, transition, and transformation of the urban area that when it comes to mobility, as it...
In this special panel the Sustainable Research Network (URExSRN) discusses their concept of urban resilience through positive future approach.Instead of looking from single perspective of dystopian scenarios URExSRN focuses on generating new scenarios,...
“Networks for Resilience” session had diverse and yet somehow similar discussions and findings. They all examined the community’s behavioral patterns in the face of their adversities, whether it being a sudden shock or more of long term stress.Overall, they all...
The session “Urban Morphology and space” provided diverse case studies applied around the world, in terms of small and medium scale intervention that could impact, in some way, the urban resilience processes.In order to reframe urban resilience, the interventions...