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Urban Resilience refers to the ability of a city to absorb, adapt and transform in face of a disturbance.
Such a concept is increasing in importance as the continuous growth of cities leads them to face new uncertainties, challenges and often significant disruptions.
Most extant literature focuses on the development of indices that measure urban resilience. However, due to the inherent complexity of the concept as well as to the variety of research perspectives, the current theoretical frameworks and metrics are quite confusing and fail to reveal how different urban factors affect resilience and the way it act on the urban scale.
This study aims to contribute to address such limits by investigating the main urban characteristics affecting resilience. Using a Resource-based view (RBV) perspective, the research develops a theoretical framework which links resources of urban systems (economic, social and environmental), urban capabilities (leadership and governance, preparedness, cooperation and infrastructures and resources), and resilience capacities (absorptive, adaptive and transformative). The theoretical framework is then empirically tested through an online survey sent to a sample of urban stakeholders, namely, policy makers, emergency services, public organizations, academics, experts, infrastructure employees, public and private associations and organizations.
The empirical analysis provides different insights on main resources and capabilities that affect resilience, thus enabling policy makers to better understand the way urban resilience arises based on the interrelationship between urban elements.
| Topics | Resilient city |
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| Keywords | Urban Resilience; Resource-based view; empirical investigation |
