Towards sustainable cities: extending resilience with insights from vulnerability and transition theory

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Seeliger, L. & Turok, I. (2016) Towards sustainable cities: extending resilience with insights from vulnerability and transition theory. In: Etingoff, K. (ed).Ecological resilience: response to climate change and natural disasters. Waretown, New Jersey: Apple Academic Press. 39-68. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/9709

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Abstract:
This paper discusses some of the basic requirements for cities in different circumstances to respond effectively to both sudden and slower-moving disturbances. It draws on the framework of resilience, vulnerability and transition to identity some of the inherent attributes that cities require for sustained growth and development.
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25 May 2016
 
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