resilience—in the sense of valuing preservation—can change fundamentally. While at the beginning of a career, the main challenge …

resilience—in the sense of valuing preservation—can change fundamentally. While at the beginning of a career, the main challenge …

Cities are increasingly being recognized as sites of resilience, or as centres of life that will have to become more … resilient in a world of intensifying hazard and risk. The literature on urban resilience tends to emphasize either the qualities …

resilience may build on physical-material aspects but that they are above all considerably interwoven with specific cultural and …

“recovery”, we draw attention to the socially constructed nature of resilience. Based on interviews and ethnographic field … observations, we investigate how resident constructions of resilience shape their views of the post-Katrina recovery process …

, does resilience in socio-technical systems degrade with use or, like immune systems, is resilience upgraded with use …? Similarly, is resilience about <i>responding</i> in the face of the rare event? Or, is it being <i>prepared</i> for the rare … event? Is it useful to think about the evolution of resilience? What are the risks posed by models of risk? That is, do …

institutions, these constructions are getting translated into conflictual resilience strategies practiced by these stakeholders …, creating situations in which “your resilience is my vulnerability”. The novel contribution of the paper to resilience research … is threefold. Firstly, it illustrates how the vulnerability and resilience of a socio-ecological system—such as small …