Planning for Resilience: New Paths for Managing Uncertainty

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Given the increasing uncertainty due to catastrophic climate events, terrorist attacks, and economic crises, this book addresses planning for resilience by focusing on sharing knowledge among policy-makers, urban planners, emergency teams and citizens. Chapters look at the nature of contemporary risks, the widespread of resilience thinking and the gap between the theoretical conception and the practices. The book explores how resilience implies a change in planning practices, highlighting the need for flexibility in terms of procedures, and for dynamism in the knowledge systems and learning processes that are the main tools for interaction among different actors and scales. Given its breadth of coverage, the book offers a valuable resource for both academic readers (spatial planners, geographers, social scientists) and practitioners (policymakers, citizens’ associations). Front Matter ....Pages i-x Introduction: Planning for Resilience (Elena Pede)....Pages 1-3 The Promise of Security (Elena Pede)....Pages 5-15 Resilience: A Critical Background (Elena Pede)....Pages 17-31 Responding to Disasters (Elena Pede)....Pages 33-60 Pathways to Operationalise: Umbria Region Case (Italy) (Elena Pede)....Pages 61-78 Managing Uncertainty: Remarks for Future Policies and Practices (Elena Pede)....Pages 79-84 Back Matter ....Pages 85-88