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Title Risk and resilience : socio-spatial and environmental challenges / Alessandro Balducci, Daniele Chiffi, Francesco Curci, editors
Published Cham : Springer, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (138 pages)
Series SpringerBriefs in applied sciences and technology. PoliMI SpringerBriefs
SpringerBriefs in applied sciences and technology. PoliMI SpringerBriefs.
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject City planning -- Social aspects
City planning -- Environmental aspects
Risk -- Sociological aspects.
Resilience (Personality trait)
Urban geography.
Sociology, Urban.
Environmental management.
human geography.
urban sociology.
environmental control.
Risk -- Sociological aspects
Resilience (Personality trait)
City planning -- Social aspects
City planning -- Environmental aspects
Environmental management
Sociology, Urban
Urban geography
Form Electronic book
Author Balducci, A. (Alessandro), editor.
Chiffi, Daniele, 1979- editor.
Curci, Francesco, editor.
ISBN 9783030560676
3030560678