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Urban Resilience - A Transformative Approach (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Urban Resilience - A Transformative Approach (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications
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This book is on urban resilience - how to design and operate cities
that can withstand major threats such as natural disasters and
economic downturns and how to recover from them. It is a collection
of latest research results from two separate but collaborating
research groups, namely, researchers in urban design and those on
general resilience theory. The book systematically deals with the
core aspects of urban resilience: systems, management issues and
populations. The taxonomy can be broken down into threats, systems,
resilience cycles and recovery types in the context of urban
resilience. It starts with a discussion of systems resilience
models, focusing on the central idea that resilience is a moving
average of costs (a set of trajectories in a two-player game
paradigm). The second section explores management issues, including
planning, operating and emergency response in cities with specific
examples such as land-use planning and carbon-neutral scenarios for
urban planning. The next section focuses on urban dwellers and
specific people-related issues in the context of resilience.
Agent-based simulation of behaviour and perception-based
resilience, as well as brand crisis management are representative
examples of the topics discussed. A further section examines
systems like public utilities - including managing power supplies,
cyber-security issues and models for pandemics. It concludes with a
discussion of the future challenges and risks facing complex
systems, for example in resilient power grids, making it essential
reading for a wide range of researchers and policymakers.
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