Its strategy – which recently received a best practice award by the American Planning Association – adopts a technical approach to resilience, with actions including an urban water plan, redesigning the transport system and leveraging critical resources for coastal projects.
ResTO-TerRiN Project: French Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy (MEDDE) funded project, entitled Contribution to the Systemic Modeling of Technical and Organizational Resilience of a Territory to Natech Risk: from microscopic to macroscopic (2013 2016).
Results indicate that resistance approaches necessitate higher levels of road structures, designed to higher technical specifications, whilst resilience approaches maintain the hydraulic character of floodplains but require the inclusion of well-designed flow through structures with localized scour protection.
Bruneau et al. (2003) developed a quantitative framework that measured the speed of recovery using four resilience dimensions (technical, organizational, social, and economic) of four systems (electric power, water, hospital, and local response and recovery systems).
The first 33 cities were announced in December and they will receive support to hire or fund a Chief Resilience Officer, technical support and access to resilience services to develop and implement a resilience plan, and innovative models to leverage billions in additional financing for the resilience projects they need.
Results show that among technical, organizational and social dimensions of resilience, the organizational resilience is the highest with a value of 99.964% (3.445 in a proposed logarithmic scale) while the social resilience is the lowest with a value of 99.760% (2.620 in the logarithmic scale).
The metaphor of resilience, and its technical specifications, draw these diverse strands for linking ecology and planning together.
The complementary use of insurance and credit may in the long term facilitate poverty reduction through technical change, asset building and resilience to diverse shocks.
This chapter reveals the working principle of an indigenous technical knowledge, Bandalling, for disaster resilience against river flooding and bank erosion with scientific evidences.
