This book presents and discusses methodological approaches and operational tools aimed at increasing the awareness and skills necessary to face the social, economic and environmental challenges usually encountered in spatial planning. In addition, it deals with the concepts of risk and resilience from both a theoretical and operational point of view. The book promotes a better understanding of risk, resilience, and related notions such as vulnerability, fragility and anti-fragility in urban and landscape studies, while also analyzing new planning policies. Accordingly, it will benefit all researchers and public decision-makers looking for an interdisciplinary approach to risk and resilience.

Autorentext
Alessandro Balducci is professor of planning and urban policies at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He served as president AESOP (Association of the European Schools of Planning), chair of the Italian Society of Urbanists (SIU), and is founding member of the European Urban Research Association (EURA)..

Inhalt

Risk and Uncertainty: Foundational Issues.- Planning for Resilience.- Risk Mitigation and Resilience of Human Settlement.- Resilience, Cohesion Policies and the Socio-Ecological Crisis.- Some Notes on Socio-Economic Territorial Imbalances in Contemporary Italy.- Socio-Spatial Inequalities in Urban Peripheries: the Case of Italy.- Natural Risks Exposure and Hazard Avoidance Strategies: Learning from Vesuvius.- Urban Resilience as Changing Ways of Governing: The implementation of the 100 Resilient Cities Initiative in Rome and Milan.