Heritage Community Resilience: towards new approaches for urban resilience and sustainability

Vulnerability and resilience: Coalescing or paralleling approaches for sustainability science?

Vulnerability and resilience constitute different but overlapping research themes embraced by sustainability science. As practiced within this science, the two research themes appear to coalesce around one of the foundational pivots of sustainability, the coupled human–environment system. They differ in regard to their attention to two other pivots, environmental services and the tradeoffs of t...

Community Sustainability and Resilience: Similarities, Differences and Indicators

Sustainability has been a core conceptual framework for community development since the concept was popularized in 1987, although in its essence it reflects a long history of environmental conservation development, emerged more gradually out of ecological studies in the 1980s, but has only recently, since the mid-2000s, emerged as a focus of public interest as a way of responding and adapting t...

Sustainability and community resilience: the holy grail of hazards planning?

Recent hazard literature frequently refers to sustainability and resilience as the guiding principles behind e!ective hazard planning. Certainly, structurally organizing communities to minimize e!ects of disasters and to recover quickly by restoring socio-economic vitality are laudable goals. However, while anticipating such outcomes is relatively easy from a theoretical standpoint, practical i...

From fail-safe to safe-to-fail: sustainability and resilience in the new urban world

The extent to which the 21st Century world will be "sustainable" depends in large part on the sustainability of cities. Early ideas on implementing sustainability focused on concepts of achieving stability, practicing effective management and the control of change and growth-a "fail-safe" mentality. More recent thinking about change, disturbance, uncertainty, and adaptability is fundamental to ...

Community Resilience Research: Current Approaches, Challenges and Opportunities