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Urban Regions Now & Tomorrow

Between vulnerability, resilience and transformation

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Editors:
  1. Sonja Deppisch

    1. HafenCity Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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  • Brings together the three dominant concepts in dealing with changing conditions and successes as well as catastrophic events in a book
  • Interdisciplinary with case studies from different European countries
  • Mainly related to city regions, taking into account the complex urban-country relations in the area of resilience
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Studien zur Resilienzforschung (STRE)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Cities and Urban Regions Under Change—Between Vulnerability, Resilience, Transition and Transformation

    • Sonja Deppisch
    Pages 1-15

  3. The Role of Monitoring Spatio-Temporal Change in Achieving Resilience of the Suburban Landscape

    • Eleni A. Athanasiadou, Maria Tratsela
    Pages 17-40

  4. Beyond a Fragmented and Sector-Oriented Knowledge for a Sustainable and Resilient Urban Development. The Case of the Metropolitan City of Naples

    • Adriana Galderisi, Giada Limongi
    Pages 41-71

  5. Resilience, Sustainability and Transformability of Cities as Complex Adaptive Systems

    • Marta Olazabal
    Pages 73-97

  6. The Challenge of Change: Planning for Social Urban Resilience

    • Anna Widborg
    Pages 99-119

  7. Sustainable Disaster Resilience? Tensions Between Socio-economic Recovery and Built Environment Post-disaster Reconstruction in Abruzzo (Italy)

    • Grazia Di Giovanni, Lorenzo Chelleri
    Pages 121-144

  8. Dealing with Surprise in Urban Regions—Some Ideas and Examples for Planners

    • Gérard Hutter
    Pages 145-164

  9. Resilience Thinking as Leitmotif in Urban and Regional Planning Dealing with Climate Change Impacts

    • Sonja Deppisch
    Pages 165-188

  10. Developing Resilient Urban Waterfronts: Integrating Adaptation into Urban Development and Management

    • Peter C. van Veelen
    Pages 189-218

  11. Making Infrastructure Climate Resilient: Bridging the Transformation Gap with “Living Labs”?

    • Ernst Schäfer, Ulrich Scheele
    Pages 219-253

  12. From Linear to Circular—Challenges for Changing Urban Metabolism?! An Analysis of Local Energy Transition Activities in Four European Cities

    • Katharina Klindworth, Aleksandra Djurasovic, Jörg Knieling, Katja Säwert
    Pages 255-276
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About this book

This book points to three dominant concepts of how to deal with long-term or surprising and also sudden catastrophic changes, with a main focus on resilience.

It is dealing with past, current and future change processes in European, Northern American as well as Australian cities and urban regions, and with the challenges they pose to a resilient urban development. Additionally, contributions deal with potential transformations of urban and regional development and related planning and governance approaches. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • HafenCity Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Sonja Deppisch

About the editor

Dr. Sonja Deppisch, HafenCity University Hamburg, involved in research on resilience in urban and regional planning and development since 2009.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Urban Regions Now & Tomorrow

  • Book Subtitle: Between vulnerability, resilience and transformation

  • Editors: Sonja Deppisch

  • Series Title: Studien zur Resilienzforschung

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-16759-2

  • Publisher: Springer Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-16758-5Published: 27 April 2017

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-16759-2Published: 19 April 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2510-0939

  • Series E-ISSN: 2510-0947

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 276

  • Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 29 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Community and Environmental Psychology

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