Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Foreword; 1 Introduction: Rethinking Urban Resilience; Urban development and disasters; Scope of the book; Organization of the book; Part I: Critical review from different disciplinary perspectives; Part II: Urban systems under stress; Part III: Dimensions of resilience; Part IV: Resilience building in practice; Conclusion; References; Part I Critical review from different disciplinary perspectives; 2 Urban resilience and urban sustainability; Introduction Conceptual foundation of resilience and sustainabilityResilience; Sustainability; Urban resilience and urban sustainability: Commonalities and differences; Instability, disturbances and a shifting framing of urban safety; Distribution of responsibility between public and private actors; Normative basis of both concepts; The space-time dimension; Conclusions; References; 3 Against general resilience; Introduction; Concepts of resilience; General and specific resilience; Identity and persistence; Describing the system; General resilience and self-governance; The challenge of urban resilience NotesReferences; 4 Urban resilience: A call to reframing planning discourses; Genealogy of resilience; Engineering resilience; Ecological resilience; Evolutionary resilience; Translation of resilience into urban planning and implications; Emergency Management and Community-based Disaster Preparedness; Roadmaps for Post-Disaster Recovery and Revitalization; Urban climate adaptation plans; Holling's society and shrinking cities: Two approaches to resilience; Conclusion; Note; References; 5 The being of urban resilience; Introduction The changing nature of hazards, and their impacts on individual wellbeing and resilienceThe interface between disaster risk reduction, resilience and mindfulness: Research gaps; Mind science: The potential influence of mindfulness on building urban resilience; Conclusions; Notes; References; 6 Data gaps and resilience metrics; Introduction; Methods for understanding risks and enhancing resilience at the local level; Detailed inventories of impacts or losses; DesInventar; MANDISA; Urban resilience measurement frameworks; Community-generated information; Discussion and conclusions; Notes

Summary:
"This volume provides a comprehensive discussion and overview of urban resilience, including socio-ecological and economic hazard and disaster resilience. It provides a summary of state of the art thinking on resilience, the different approaches, tools and methodologies for understanding the subject in urban contexts, and brings together related reflections and initiatives. Throughout the different chapters, the handbook critically examines and reviews the resilience concept from various disciplinary and professional perspectives. It also discusses major urban crises, past and recent, and the generic lessons they provide for resilience. In this context, the authors provide case studies from different places and times, including historical material and contemporary examples, and studies that offer concrete guidance on how to approach urban resilience. Other chapters focus on how current understanding of urban systems - such as shrinking cities, green infrastructure, disaster volunteerism, and urban energy systems - are affecting the capacity of urban settlements and nation-states to respond to different forms and levels of stressors and shocks. The handbook concludes with a synthesis of the state of the art knowledge on resilience and points the way forward in refining the conceptualisation and application of urban resilient. The book is intended for scholars and graduate students in urban studies, environmental and sustainability studies, geography, planning, architecture, urban design, political science and sociology, for whom it will provide an invaluable and up-to-date guide to current approaches across these disciplines which converge in the study of urban resilience. The book also provides important direction to practitioners and civic leaders who are engaged in supporting cities and regions to position themselves for resilience in the face of climate change, unpredictable socio-environmental shocks and incremental risk accumulation"--