Urban Resilience
Towards Resilient Communities
As of today, meanings and definitions of resilience are everywhere - not all of them very precise, concise, or well-defined, "exisiting definitions are inconsistent and underdeveloped". There are dozens of different definitions of 'urban resilience' in academic literature and government policy documents.
In all, these definitions have important elements in common. Resilience is a capacity, ie a positive attribute that can be built and acquired - by cities, towns, villages, communities. This capacity comprises actions such as resist, absorb, adapt, transform, change, recover, and prepare, in relation to events (shocks, stresses, hazards, or disasters) or the possibility of these risks taking place.
Urban Resilience can be understood as the ongoing capacity of municipalities to absorb, adapt, transform, and prepare for shocks and stresses along the economic, social, institutional, and environmental dimensions, with the aim of maintaining the functions of a municipality and improving the response to future shocks.
OECD Regional Development Working Paper 2018
Indicators for Resilient Cities
Lorena Figueiredo, Taku Honiden, Abel Schumann