BC3 seminars: City Resilience: just do it?

BC3 Seminars
“City Resilience: just do it?”

Lorenzo Chelleri,

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Gran Sasso Science Institute
Urban Research Unit, L’Aquila, IT.

Abstract

In line with the recent threats and challenges framed around climate change adaptation and mitigation, the concept of resilience applied to cities navigated through a first successful wave of policy discourses and initiatives. However, after crashing against a recent but increasing number of critics, from different disciplines, a second wave is trying to re-establish the reliability of resilience by proposing a critical mass of city resilience assessment tools. These are providing indicators and weights for a more cautionary and effective way of building resilient cities. This talk speculates around the application of those metrics, explaining through different case studies (Barcelona, on critical infrastructures and L’Aquila, on post-disaster reconstruction governance) how integrated resilience metrics are often biased from, since based on, others concepts’ indicators, showing that i) resilience is still, after its first wave of metaphorical meanings success, an overall umbrella for different city policies and ii) resilience principles (mostly rooted in social, ecological sciences and engineering) still lack consistency for being operationalized in urban systems.

Lecturer

During June 13-17, BC3 will host Dr. Lorenzo Chelleri, a multidisciplinary researcher whose research is focused around the interplay between urban sustainability and resilience.

BC3 has in place a program called BC3 Visiting Programme under the attainment of its strategic objectives, Talent Attraction.

The aim of this programme is to promote research and dialogue between BC3 and other worldwide leading institutions, by supporting and hosting local and international professors wishing to undertake research at BC3.

Profile: Dr. Lorenzo Chelleri

Lorenzo ChelleriLorenzo is currently Postdoctoral research fellow at GSSI, Urban Unit. He is a multidisciplinary researcher, PhD (2012) in urban geography from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, European MSc in environmental planning and policy and Bachelor in urban planning. His researches focus around the interplay between urban sustainability and resilience, with particular emphasis on the cross scales and multiple trade-offs embedded within long term transitions. Lorenzo is founder member of the young researchers network on urban resilience, has worked for the European Environment Agency (ETC-TE, 2007) and been involved in different national and European projects.

Personal Profile: Lorenzo Chelleri

Highlighted Publication

Portada Urban Resilience“Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Urban Resilience” , published by Bc3 and edited by: Dr. Lorenzo Chelleri and Dr. Marta Olazabal (postdoctoral researcher at BC3)
Authors: Lorenzo Chelleri, Anna Kunath, Guido Minucci, Marta Olazabal, James J. Waters and Lilia Yumalogava
ISBN: 978-84-695-6025-9