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Assessing urban resilience
Beschreibung
Investigation of the resilience of cities has become increasingly important in view of the various natural and man-made threats to the sustainability of urban complexes in which more than half the world’s population lives. The paper provides an overview of the pertinent concepts as well as the various approaches to the assessment of the resilience of cities. It elaborates on the concepts of complexity and dynamic systems and attempts to clarify the concept of resilience itself by analysing its characteristics and contrasting it with related concepts such as sustainability, resistance, equilibrium, stability, durability and robustness. It proposes that the essence of resilience is the ability of a system to absorb changes without a transition to a different state.
Erschienen
2012
Themen
Krisenvorbereitung & Prävention
Krisenbewältigung
Krisenbewältigung
Autor*innen
Cloete, Chris
Zeitschrift
Transaction on Information and Communication Technologies
Band
44
DOI
10.2495/RISK120291
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