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If resilience efforts don’t consider justice issues, they will end up making those who are the most in need the least resilient.
Disaster preparations often focus on gear and logistics, but research in Japan after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami shows that strong social ties played a key role in helping communities rebound.
Our cities need to become much more efficient not just to conserve precious resources but to improve the economy, wellbeing and resilience to environmental change and disasters.
With burgeoning need and an aid system that is failing to cope, what meaning does ‘resilience’ have?
As the U.S. braces for potential landfall of Hurricane Matthew, our experts weigh in on hurricanes, the need for resilient infrastructure and climate change.
Are terrorist attacks also an implicit design critique of our urban landscape? An architect and urban designer suggests we can fight terrorism by not building obvious targets.
With little state and federal leadership, regional planners in southern Florida try to prepare for the effects of climate change.
City-centric thinking arguably obscures connections between ‘humans’ and ‘nature’, and ‘urban’ and ‘rural’ or ‘wild’. Growing evidence of the depths of these links is testing the concept of ‘urban’.
Many African cities are sites of rapid urbanisation. To ensure that such societies are water resilient, it is necessary to address formal and informal forms of development.
Top contributors
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Director, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Professor and Inaugural Judith Neilson Chair in Architecture, UNSW
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Architect/Urbanist and landscape planner - Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Built Environment, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer in Environmental Management, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Architecture, Director of the Metropolitan Design Center, and Dayton Hudson Chair in Urban Design, University of Minnesota
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Adelaide University
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Professor of the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University
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Doctor of Philosophy, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor, School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Newcastle
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Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University
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Professor of Climate Change Adaptation, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor in Construction and Environmental Performance, The University of Melbourne
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Research Social Scientist, International Institute of Tropical Forestry
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Deputy Head of School, School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Newcastle
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Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University