Activity 4

About resilience

n file F08 we can read the following: “Nowadays resilience is largely interpreted as the key concept for a “shift in thinking” in the field of disaster analysis and management, due to the opportunity that it provides for dealing with concepts like uncertainty, cross-scale effects, non-linear dynamics, etc. which are very relevant in case of complex urban disasters.
These words contribute to make us understand how important the practice on the concept and on the development of resilience assessments could be.

STEP 1
Following the ENSURE project approach, it is important to focus on three different approaches which address the work on resilience. Can you remember which ones and what does this imply in term of resilience assessment practice?


STEP 2
Turning resilience into operational terms: do you recognize the following image? Can you explain it?


STEP 3
From theory to practice. In module 3 you found “the Corvara case study”, with an example of the application of the Ensure framework for resilience assessment. Can you describe the main elements in the matrixResilience: mitigation capacities in the long run?