Practical dimension of urban and regional resilience concepts: a proposal of resilience strategy model

• Authors: Grzegorz Masik , Maja Grabowska

Abstracts

EN

It is not only growth and development that is of value to local, regional and central governments, but also the ability to absorb negative phenomena and the ability to continuously transform socio-economic systems. Resilience strategies thus serve as a response to the more and more frequent and intense natural, social and economic challenges. In some approaches to urban resilience, special attention is paid to activities undertaken by cities to become inclusive, integrated, robust, resourceful, reflective, redundant and flexible. In regional strategies the emphasis is on diversity, dispersion, mutuality and modularity. The aim of the paper is to synthesise selected qualities of resilient cities and regions into a new model of resilience strategy. It assumes that goals at each level of strategy are formulated according to adaptive interpretation of the resilience concept. Development of such model would enable the use of the concept by practitioners responsible for creating development strategies.

Keywords

EN

Resilience; urban strategy; regional strategy; resilience model

• Publisher: Wydział Geografii i Studiów Regionalnych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 24
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 30-34

Dates

published

2020

Contributors

author

Grzegorz Masik

• Department of Socio-Economic Geography, Institute of Geography, University of Gdansk, Gdańsk, Poland

author

Maja Grabowska

• Department of Socio-Economic Geography, Institute of Geography, University of Gdansk, Gdańsk, Poland

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Biblioteka Nauki

947021