Urban Resilience for Risk and Adaptation Governance: Theory and Practice (Resilient Cities)

This book brings together a series of theory and practice essays on risk management and adaptation in urban contexts within a resilient and multidimensional perspective. The book proposes a transversal approach with regard to the role of spatial planning in promoting and fostering risk management as well as institutions’ challenges for governing risk, particularly in relation to new forms of multi-level governance that may include stakeholders and citizen engagement. The different contributions focus on approaches, policies, and practices able to contrast risks in urban systems generating social inclusion, equity and participation through bottom-up governance forms and co-evolution principles. Case studies focus on lessons learned, as well as the potential and means for their replication and upscaling, also through capacity building and knowledge transfer. Among many other topics, the book explores difficulties encountered in, and creative solutions found, community and local experiences and capacities, organizational processes and integrative institutional, technical approaches to risk issue in cities. Front Matter ....Pages i-viii The Challenge of Urban Resilience: Operationalization (Ombretta Caldarice, Grazia Brunetta, Nicola Tollin)....Pages 1-6 Front Matter ....Pages 7-7 The Definition of Urban Resilience: A Transformation Path Towards Collaborative Urban Risk Governance (Julie-Maude Normandin, Marie-Christine Therrien, Mark Pelling, Shona Paterson)....Pages 9-25 Putting Resilience into Practice. The Spatial Planning Response to Urban Risks (Grazia Brunetta, Ombretta Caldarice)....Pages 27-41 Adaptive Governance for Resilience of Peri-Urban Socioecological Systems (Pablo Torres-Lima, Sandra Lee Pinel, Kristen Conway-Gómez)....Pages 43-58 Ecosystem Services Based Approach for Participatory Spatial Planning and Risk Management in a Multi-Level Governance System (Carolina Giaimo, Carlo Alberto Barbieri, Stefano Salata)....Pages 59-74 Sustainable Urban Expansion to Make Climate-Resilient Cities: The 21st Century Challenge (Lurdes Barrico, Paula Castro)....Pages 75-91 Improving Resilience through Cross-Scale Knowledge Sharing (Elena Pede)....Pages 93-107 Front Matter ....Pages 109-109 Urban Resilience and Informality: Effects of Formalisation in Golestan, Iran (Solmaz Hosseinioon)....Pages 111-127 Ecosystem Service Valuation for Forest Landscape Resilience: Managing Fire Risk (Roberta Ingaramo, Emma Salizzoni, Angioletta Voghera)....Pages 129-146 Territorial Resilience and Flood Vulnerability. Case Studies at Urban Scale in Torino (Italy) and Porto/Vila Nova de Gaia (Portugal) (Stefano Ferrari, Sandra Oliveira, Giulia Pautasso, José Luís Zêzere)....Pages 147-174 Climatic Change, Management of Water Rain and Flood Risk in the Metropolitan Area of San Luis Potosí, México (Adrián Moreno-Mata, Ricardo Villasís-Keever, Jordi Morató)....Pages 175-206 Urban Resilience and Landslide Risk Management: The Case of Santos (Brazil) (Karolyne Ferreira, Alex Abiko)....Pages 207-228 Probabilistic Assessment of Seismic Risk of Dwelling Buildings of Barcelona. Implication for the City Resilience (Armando Aguilar-Meléndez, Lluis G. Pujades, Josep De la Puente, Alex H. Barbat, Mario G. Ordaz S., Sergio Natan González-Rocha et al.)....Pages 229-265 Urban Resilience and Post-Disaster Reconstruction. Evidences from Mexico and France (Aleyda Reséndiz-Vázquez)....Pages 267-280 Operational Mitigation – Transient Housing: The Case of Jammu, India (Faiz Ahmed Chundeli, Lakshmi Visakha)....Pages 281-284 Planning Recovery and Reconstruction After the 2010 Maule Earthquake and Tsunami in Chile (Stephen Platt)....Pages 285-304