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Introducing Urban Resilience: What’s under the city resilience umbrella?
Keynote Talk
Lorenzo Chelleri, Ph.D. Chair – Urban Resilience Research Network
Lecturer – Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC) Ass. Researcher – Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), Social Sciences (IT)
Introducing Urban Resilience: What’s under the city resilience umbrella?
Barcelona, March 31 - 2017 Lorenzo Chelleri, Ph.D.
URNet – UIC – GSSI
Introducing Urban Resilience: What’s under the city resilience umbrella?
Barcelona, March 31 - 2017 Lorenzo Chelleri, Ph.D.
URNet – UIC – GSSI
Why does Urban Resilience (still) Need Introductions?
1) When something means everything... it could actually means anything
2) It is far from been normative, positive and incremental as Sustainablity
Introducing Urban Resilience: What’s under the city resilience umbrella?
Barcelona, March 31 - 2017 Lorenzo Chelleri, Ph.D.
URNet – UIC – GSSI
Talk Objectives: Introducing why Urban Resilience is - Not normative good - Not Sustainability - Need to be alligned to Sustainability and Social Justice
Introducing Urban Resilience: What’s under the city resilience umbrella?
Barcelona, March 31 - 2017 Lorenzo Chelleri, Ph.D.
URNet – UIC – GSSI
1. Understanding the difference between “resilient cities” and “urban resilience”
The Resilience of What .. To What ?
Introducing Urban Resilience: What’s under the city resilience umbrella?
Barcelona, March 31 - 2017 Lorenzo Chelleri, Ph.D.
URNet – UIC – GSSI
“the message of resilience is more radical for policy-makers
than that of sustainability” Brand and Jax, 2007:1
On Resilient Cities Policy Discourses and the (false) perception of Resilience as a normative positive goal
Introducing Urban Resilience: What’s under the city resilience umbrella?
Barcelona, March 31 - 2017 Lorenzo Chelleri, Ph.D.
URNet – UIC – GSSI
On Resilient Cities Policy Discourses and the (false) perception of Resilience as a normative positive goal
Not Resilient Resilient
Exposure x Sensitivity Resilience (adaptive cap)
Vulnerability =
Introducing Urban Resilience: What’s under the city resilience umbrella?
Barcelona, March 31 - 2017 Lorenzo Chelleri, Ph.D.
URNet – UIC – GSSI
Resilience and Vulnerability Examples – Climate Resilience – Flooding Resilience
Introducing Urban Resilience: What’s under the city resilience umbrella?
Barcelona, March 31 - 2017 Lorenzo Chelleri, Ph.D.
URNet – UIC – GSSI
Resilience and Vulnerability Examples – Climate Resilience – Flooding Resilience
Flooding resilience enhanced, risks mitigated through planning and design
Introducing Urban Resilience: What’s under the city resilience umbrella?
Barcelona, March 31 - 2017 Lorenzo Chelleri, Ph.D.
URNet – UIC – GSSI
Resilience and Vulnerability Examples – Climate Resilience – Flooding Resilience
Introducing Urban Resilience: What’s under the city resilience umbrella?
Barcelona, March 31 - 2017 Lorenzo Chelleri, Ph.D.
URNet – UIC – GSSI
Resilience and Vulnerability Examples – Climate Resilience – Flooding Resilience
Introducing Urban Resilience: What’s under the city resilience umbrella?
Barcelona, March 31 - 2017 Lorenzo Chelleri, Ph.D.
URNet – UIC – GSSI
Resilience and Vulnerability Examples – Climate Resilience – Flooding Resilience
Introducing Urban Resilience: What’s under the city resilience umbrella?
Barcelona, March 31 - 2017 Lorenzo Chelleri, Ph.D.
URNet – UIC – GSSI
Different Approaches in decreasing/mitigating vulnerability...
Introducing Urban Resilience: What’s under the city resilience umbrella?
Barcelona, March 31 - 2017 Lorenzo Chelleri, Ph.D.
URNet – UIC – GSSI
Source: Chelleri, L. et al (2015) “Resilience trade-offs: addressing multiple scales and temporal aspects of urban resilience” Environment and Urbanization
Different Approaches in decreasing/mitigating vulnerability...
First Caveat about Resilient Cities: Tensions between robustness/recovery/transformation How do you chose/prioritize approaches?
Introducing Urban Resilience: What’s under the city resilience umbrella?
Barcelona, March 31 - 2017 Lorenzo Chelleri, Ph.D.
URNet – UIC – GSSI
Different Approaches in decreasing/mitigating vulnerability... Who is building flooding resilience?
Introducing Urban Resilience: What’s under the city resilience umbrella?
Barcelona, March 31 - 2017 Lorenzo Chelleri, Ph.D.
URNet – UIC – GSSI
Different Approaches in decreasing/mitigating vulnerability... Who is building flooding resilience?
Introducing Urban Resilience: What’s under the city resilience umbrella?
Barcelona, March 31 - 2017 Lorenzo Chelleri, Ph.D.
URNet – UIC – GSSI
Second Caveat about Resilient Cities: Who is building resilience, who is benefitting it?
Introducing Urban Resilience: What’s under the city resilience umbrella?
Barcelona, March 31 - 2017 Lorenzo Chelleri, Ph.D.
URNet – UIC – GSSI
Other socio-ecological consequences of been resilient..
Introducing Urban Resilience: What’s under the city resilience umbrella?
Barcelona, March 31 - 2017 Lorenzo Chelleri, Ph.D.
URNet – UIC – GSSI
The issue is that you cannot measure those trade-offs
We’re still stuck within the incremental, policy-oriented positive thinking...
Introducing Urban Resilience: What’s under the city resilience umbrella?
Barcelona, March 31 - 2017 Lorenzo Chelleri, Ph.D.
URNet – UIC – GSSI
Introducing Urban Resilience: What’s under the city resilience umbrella?
Barcelona, March 31 - 2017 Lorenzo Chelleri, Ph.D.
URNet – UIC – GSSI
A performance – vulnerability decreasing oriented game...
Introducing Urban Resilience: What’s under the city resilience umbrella?
Barcelona, March 31 - 2017 Lorenzo Chelleri, Ph.D.
URNet – UIC – GSSI
From resilient cities to urban resilience II
Resilient City is stucked within the vulnerability reduction paradigm The main issue if understanding How to prioritize which risk to tackle
Urban Resilience is the set of capacities which coexist within urban systems and could be in competency among them. Urban resilience is interested in understanding The synergies and trade-off among those capacities
Introducing Urban Resilience: What’s under the city resilience umbrella?
Barcelona, March 31 - 2017 Lorenzo Chelleri, Ph.D.
URNet – UIC – GSSI
Is Urban Resilience through Nature Based Solution an opportunity
to frame win-win strategies among Resilience – Social Justice - Sustainability?
Thank you
Introducing Urban Resilience: What’s under the city resilience umbrella?
Barcelona, March 31 - 2017 Lorenzo Chelleri, Ph.D.
URNet – UIC – GSSI
An open-source Brief Post synthetizing the main challanges of operationalizing urban resilience