Urban Regions Now & Tomorrow: Between vulnerability, resilience and transformation

Sonja Deppisch (Editor)

Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationWiesbaden
Number of pages276
Edition1.
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-658-16759-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017

Publication series

NameStudien zur Resilienzforschung
PublisherSpringer
ISSN (Print)2510-0939
ISSN (Electronic)2510-0947

Keywords

  • Urban regions
  • Vulnerability
  • Resilience
  • Transformation
  • transition
  • Change processes
  • Challenges to urban and regional development

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