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The Definition of Urban Resilience: A Transformation Path Towards Collaborative Urban Risk Governance
- Source :
- Resilient Cities ISBN: 9783319769431
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Springer, 2018.
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Abstract
- Resilience as a theoretical concept and policy proposition is constantly being redefined and clarified. But when it comes to implementation, public managers and bureaucrats have to take ownership of resilience and translate it into practical forms that make sense to them intellectually and operationally. In this chapter, we first explain how resilience is presented in the literature as, variously, a paradigm change, a governance model to better manage complex issues, and a destination to reach. Second, we analyse how public managers and bureaucrats responsible for implementation in London and Montreal have interpreted and used resilience. Finally, we discuss how paradigm change, governance transformation and goal attainment perspectives end up converging into a relatively similar meaning in both cities. What these cities are lacking to take the next step toward urban resilience is the strategic endorsement of political authorities to support this important transformation.
- Subjects :
- 021110 strategic, defence & security studies
Corporate governance
05 social sciences
Risk governance
0211 other engineering and technologies
Proposition
02 engineering and technology
0506 political science
Conceptual development
Paradigm shift
Urban resilience
050602 political science & public administration
Governance transformation
Sociology
Economic system
Political authorities
Resilience (network)
Exploratory comparative research
Meaning (linguistics)
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISBN :
- 978-3-319-76943-1
- ISBNs :
- 9783319769431
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Resilient Cities ISBN: 9783319769431
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f41e4719232405d629975b8d7d1dfdb6