Resilience Reset

Drawing on evidence from urban resilience initiatives around the globe, the authors make a compelling argument for a 'resilience reset', a pause and stock-take that critically examines the concepts, practices and challenges of building resilience, particularly in cities of the Global South.

Autorentext

Aditya V. Bahadur, PhD, is a Principal Researcher at the International Institute for Environment and Development, specialising in climate-resilient urban development. Previously he worked with the Action on Climate Today programme supporting governments with climate policy and institutional development and with the ODI (Overseas Development Institute). Aditya completed a PhD at the University of Sussex, UK, and a postdoctoral programme at Columbia University, USA.

Thomas Tanner, PhD, is a development geographer specialising in building resilience and adaptation to climate change through development policy and practice. He is Director of the Centre for Development, Environment and Policy at SOAS University of London, where he leads work on climate change, sustainability and development. He previously held positions at the ODI, the Institute of Development Studies, the United Nations Development Programme and the UK's Department for International Development.

Inhalt

1:Urban climate change resilience 'reset' 2. Data for urban resilience: From mainstream to innovative approaches 3. Resilient Urban Communities: From incremental to transformational change 4. Urban planning for resilience: Embracing informality 5. Resilient urban systems and services: From hard to soft infrastructure 6. Urban resilience finance: From exogenous reliance to endogenous reliability 7. The Urban Resilience Reset in a post-COVID world