German Annual of Spatial Research and Policy 2010: Urban Regional Resilience: How Do Cities and Regions Deal with Change?

✍ Scribed by Bernhard Müller (auth.), Bernhard Müller (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 178
• Series: German Annual of Spatial Research and Policy
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Resilience is increasingly becoming a catchword in current discussions about urban and regional development. While there has been a strong research focus on sustainability, there is a lack of understanding of the processes and factors that make cities and regions more vulnerable and others more resilient, for example, when dealing with climate change, demographic decline and ageing, as well as economic crises. The German Annual of Spatial Research and Policy 2010 sheds some light on this by discussing examples of how actors deal with change. On the one hand, concepts are described and analysed which are oriented towards increasing urban regional resilience, for example regarding energy consumption, climate change, and urban decline. Moreover, institutional aspects are discussed. On the other hand, barriers for using the concept of resilience in planning are described and suggestions are made about how to deal with these barriers in strategic planning.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Urban and Regional Resilience – A New Catchword or a Consistent Concept for Research and Practice?....Pages 1-13
Urban Resilience and New Institutional Theory – A Happy Couple for Urban and Regional Studies?....Pages 15-24
Given the Complexity of Large Cities, Can Urban Resilience be Attained at All?....Pages 25-33
Rebuild the City! Towards Resource-efficient Urban Structures through the Use of Energy Concepts, Adaptation to Climate Change, and Land Use Management....Pages 35-48
Urban Restructuring – Making ‘More’ from ‘Less’....Pages 49-58
Accomodating Creative Knowledge Workers? Empirical Evidence from Metropoles in Central and Eastern Europe....Pages 59-68
A Strategy for Dealing with Change: Regional Development in Switzerland in the Context of Social Capital....Pages 69-78
Path Dependency and Resilience – The Example of Landscape Regions....Pages 79-88
Resilience and Resistance of Buildings and Built Structures to Flood Impacts – Approaches to Analysis and Evaluation....Pages 89-100
Planning for Risk Reduction and Organizing for Resilience in the Context of Natural Hazards....Pages 101-111
Vulnerability and Resilience: A Topic for Spatial Research from a Social Science Perspective....Pages 113-119
Adaptability of Regional Planning in Lower Saxony to Climate Change....Pages 121-125
Dealing with Climate Change – The Opportunities and Conflicts of Integrating Mitigation and Adaptation....Pages 127-129
Regional Climate Adaptation Research – The Implementation of an Integrative Regional Approach in the Dresden Model Region....Pages 131-136
River Landscapes – Reference Areas for Regionally Specific Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change....Pages 137-141
Strategic Planning – Approaches to Coping with the Crisis of Shrinking Cities....Pages 143-146
Typologies of the Built Environment and the Example of Urban Vulnerability Assessment....Pages 147-150
Back Matter....Pages 151-163

✦ Subjects

Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Regional/Spatial Science; Human Geography