Resilience Imperative

Introduction

• I.1 Resilience, polysemy, cacophony or quandary?
• I.2 Defining resilience
• I.3 Resilience put to the test: the theoretical issues
• I.4 From practical application to critical examination

1: Defining Resilience: When the Concept Resists

• Abstract
• 1.1 A multidisciplinary construct
• 1.2 Transfers in cindynics
• 1.3 Defining resilience
• 1.4 Two concepts for a single word
• 1.5 Conclusion

2: Resilience and Vulnerability: From Opposition towards a Continuum

• Abstract
• 2.1 One or several vulnerabilities?
• 2.2 The vulnerability/resilience pair
• 2.3 Beyond opposition: the notion of “resiliencery vulnerability”
• 2.4 Conclusion

3: Resilience: A Question of Scale

• Abstract
• 3.1 Resilience as a scalar problem
• 3.2 The “glocalization” of risk and scalar reconfiguration of resilience
• 3.3 Changing scales to explain resilience
• 3.4 Conclusion

4: Resilience: A Systemic Property

• Abstract
• 4.1 Resilience and systemic analysis
• 4.2 The case of the city, a complex sociosystem
• 4.3 Maintaining the cohesion of the system to overcome the crisis
• 4.4 Conclusion

5: From the Resilience of Constructions to the Resilience of Territories: A New Framework for Thought and for Action

• Abstract
• 5.1 The conditions of resilient planning on the scale of the territory
• 5.2 Applying resilience: adaptation and resistance of the material components
• 5.3 Conclusion

6: Adapting Territorial Systems Through their Components: The Case of Critical Networks

• Abstract
• 6.1 Technical and critical networks, strategic elements of resilience
• 6.2 Choosing adaptations
• 6.3 Conclusion

7: Resilience and Global Climate Change

• Abstract
• 7.1 Resilience and global change: scales, temporalities and uncertainty
• 7.2 Adaptation to global change and resilience
• 7.3 Urban resilience and sustainable urban planning practices
• 7.4 Conclusion

8: Organizational Resilience: Preparing and Overcoming Crisis

• Abstract
• 8.1 The components and temporalities of a crisis
• 8.2 Lessons from feedback
• 8.3 Organizing to overcome a crisis
• 8.4 Conclusion

9: (Re)Constructing Resilient Districts: Experiences Compared

• Abstract
• 9.1 (Re)New Orleans: Big Easy as a resilience laboratory
• 9.2 Urban renewal and resilience in East London: the Thames Gateway
• 9.3 Conclusion

10: Resilience, Memory and Practices

• Abstract
• 10.1 The resilient system between identity and evolution
• 10.2 Resilience and retaining a memory of risk
• 10.3 The problem of identity
• 10.4 Conclusion

11: Critique of Pure Resilience

• Abstract
• 11.1 Resilience to the test of discourses
• 11.2 The dark side of resilience
• 11.3 “Good” or “bad”, who is declaring resilience?
• 11.4 Conclusion