Beyond bouncing back? Comparing and contesting urban resilience frames in US and Latin American contexts

Urban resilience has gained considerable popularity in planning and policy to address cities’ capacity cope with climate change. While many studies discuss the different ways that academics define resilience, little attention been given how is conceptualized across urban contexts among actors engage building ‘on ground’. Given implications frames can have for solutions are pursued (and who benefits from them), it important examine transformative definitions of practice. In this paper, we use data a survey nine US Latin American Caribbean cities explore concept framed multiple governance sectors, including governmental, non-governmental, business, research, hybrid organizations. We these framings light recent conceptual developments tensions found literature. The results highlight that, general cities, converge as ability resist, with, or bounce back previous conditions, whereas sustainability, equity, social-ecological-technological systems (SETS) perspectives rarely associated resilience. There noticeable differences point geographic political variation way conceptualized. unpack their research practice moving forward. argue if going remain major goal city policies into future, needs be conceived more transformative, anticipatory, equitable way, acknowledge interconnected SETS.