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Urban Resilience

A Transformative Approach

  • Provides agent-based simulation analysis for crisis management
  • Examines risks facing complex urban systems
  • Provides strategies for mitigating urban security issues and crisis management
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Systems Resilience, A 30,000 Feet View

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
  3. Planning Urban Resilience

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
    2. Urban Economics Model for Land-Use Planning

      • Yoshiki Yamagata, Hajime Seya, Daisuke Murakami
      Pages 25-43
    3. Modeling Urban Heatwave Risk in Adelaide, South Australia

      • Simon Benger, Daisuke Murakami, Yoshiki Yamagata
      Pages 45-62
    4. Flood Risk Management in Cities

      • Daisuke Murakami, Yoshiki Yamagata
      Pages 63-77
  4. Responding to Shocks

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
    2. Perception-Based Resilience: Accounting for Human Perception in Resilience Thinking with Its Theoretic and Model Bases

      • Roberto Legaspi, Rungsiman Narararatwong, Nagul Cooharojananone, Hitoshi Okada, Hiroshi Maruyama
      Pages 95-114
    3. Resilient Community Clustering: A Graph Theoretical Approach

      • Kazuhiro Minami, Tomoya Tanjo, Nana Arizumi, Hiroshi Maruyama, Daisuke Murakami, Yoshiki Yamagata
      Pages 115-133
    4. Agent-Based Modeling—A Tool for Urban Resilience Research?

      • Thomas Brudermann, Christian Hofer, Yoshiki Yamagata
      Pages 135-151
    5. Disease Outbreaks: Critical Biological Factors and Control Strategies

      • Kent Kawashima, Tomotaka Matsumoto, Hiroshi Akashi
      Pages 173-204
  5. Measuring Urban Resilience

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205
    2. Computational Framework of Resilience

      • Nicolas Schwind, Kazuhiro Minami, Hiroshi Maruyama, Leena Ilmola, Katsumi Inoue
      Pages 239-257
  6. Future Challenges

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 277-277
    2. Bringing People Back In: Crisis Planning and Response Embedded in Social Contexts

      • Kendra Thompson-Dyck, Brian Mayer, Kathryn Freeman Anderson, Joseph Galaskiewicz
      Pages 279-293

About this book

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.





Reviews

“The term ‘urban resilience’ describes how cities withstand shocks and recover. This topic is explored in this collection of papers, with a range of perspectives from mathematics to case studies. … There is something in this collection for almost any reader … . The editor comments that the book is intended to show ‘the depth and breadth’ of urban resilience, and the book did that for me.” (B. Hazeltine, Computing Reviews, March, 2017)

Editors and Affiliations

  • National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan

    Yoshiki Yamagata

  • Preferred Networks, Inc.,, Tokyo, Japan

    Hiroshi Maruyama

Bibliographic Information

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Buying options

eBook USD 169.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 219.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 219.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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