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In many countries local government has been a prime target of austerity measures. In response, local authorities are exploring a new repertoire of policy approaches in a bid to provide more with less. In England, local authorities have been drawn to community resilience as a pragmatic response to the challenge of deploying shrinking resources to support communities exposed to social and economic disruption. This application of resilience thinking is not without its challenges. It demands a working definition of community resilience that recognises the potential for communities to prove resilient to shocks and disruptions, but avoids blaming them for their predicament. There is also the practical challenge of developing and targeting interventions to promote and protect resilience. This paper sets out to explore these issues and establish the potential utility of community resilience as a policy tool through case study analysis in the city of Sheffield.
Resilient Community: A concept and vision for community action, city planning and state policy for the 21st century
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Resilience for a community or a city is the ability to maintain essential quality of life functions and services for its residents when a severe disruptive event or sequence of events occurs. Resilience is fundamentally a local capacity. No matter how widespread a disruption’s impacts may be, people will always have to deal with immediate, on-the-ground impacts that affect lives and infrastructure in their local areas. Nevertheless, strategies and policies for building resilient communities must be both bottom-up and top-down. This paper is intended to stimulate a broader conversation about what resilience means and the reasons why it is important, and an exploration of strategies and policies we can undertake for building resilience at each level of our social and economic systems.
Local Government Studies
Community resilience: a policy tool for local government?
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Partners in Local Resilience
John H Callewaert, Matthew Naud, Ashlee Jensen
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Negotiating community resilience in the city in a time of political change and deficit reduction
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Advocacy for urban resilience: UNISDR's Making Cities Resilient Campaign
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The politics of resilient cities: whose resilience and whose city?
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Lawrence Vale
Top-down resilience: Governing cities for resilience in the face of uncertain change and transformation
Top-down resilience: Governing cities for resilience in the face of uncertain change and transformation
2013 •
Rachna Lévêque
This paper explores how social-ecological resilience may be applied to urban planning and governance in the face of uncertain change. It examines the various interpretations of resilience in the built environment and investigates what social-ecological resilience can bring to urban planning and governance processes at city-region level. Identifying the characteristics of resilient systems presented within theories of social-ecological resilience, this paper develops a framework for urban planning and governance for resilience. It explores how the elements of this framework present themselves in current approaches to city-region planning and, using the Detroit Strategic Framework Plan process as a case-study, identifies what additional influences have to be considered in turning planning for resilience into reality.
City government's capability for resilience: Towards a functional framework
Gerrit Van der Waldt, Louis van der Merwe
The capability of city governments to cope with environmental stresses and internal dynamics is commonly regarded as a key success factor for such governments' overall resilience. The formulation and execution of urban policies and development strategies, local leadership, and service excellence all depend on cities' capability to respond to environmental dynamics. Cities are increasingly regarded as national growth hubs and make a significant impact on national socioeconomic growth trajectories, political power undercurrents, and utilisation of resources. Resilient cities should be able to leverage their capabilities to deal with realities of sustainable development, encourage socioeconomic growth, and promote the living conditions of its citizens. The purpose of this article was to uncover the factors that influence the overall capability of cities to become more resilient. A mixed-method research design was employed to probe the capabilities of metropolitan municipalities in South Africa. The article concludes with empirical findings culminating in outlining key capabilities that should be incorporated into a comprehensive resilience framework for cities.
