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...
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...
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 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...
“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...
In the politics of resilience and gentrification, the presentations focused on the use of urban resilience as a metaphor for framing their arguments. The predominant focus was around the social networks that were at risk or how more resilient urban environments would...
Sustainability of cities is one of the main goals of this century, being today an historically critical point of the environmental and urban management. Often, to reach it, governments have exalted the implementation of resilience strategies, but having a confused...