The city politics of an urban age: urban resilience conceptualisations and policies

Adriana X. Sanchez, Jeroen van der Heijden, Paul W. Osmond

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    Abstract

    Around the globe, cities seek to improve their resilience to face the stresses and shocks that are expected from global climate change and other threats. In implementing urban resilience policies, they are guided by different urban resilience conceptualisations. What is meant by the concept differs between scholars, governments, as well as international organisations that seek to study, advise on and implement urban resilience policies and governance interventions. This article presents a review of the urban resilience literature since the 1970s. It seeks to map and interrogate dominant urban resilience conceptualisations, and decipher whether and how different understandings of the concept can result in essentially different policies and governance interventions and outcomes. In contrasting the 'what' of urban resilience (various conceptualisations) with the 'why' of urban resilience policy (bouncing back, falling forwards, persistence) it investigates approaches to overcome some of the key critiques to urban resilience policy and research.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)12pp
    JournalPalgrave Communications
    Volume4
    Issue number25
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2018

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