Abstract
This book is devoted to the latest research results on urban resilience. Resilience thinking is not specific to cities—it has been discussed in much broader disciplines and domains in the literature. In this opening chapter, we argue that research works pursuing the common strategies of system resilience require a language that can help describe the specific contexts in which resilience is applied. We propose here taxonomy for general resilience that consists of three orthogonal dimensions, namely, type of shock, characteristic of the target system, and type of recovery. We show that despite its domain-dependency, there exist resilience strategies that cut across multiple disciplines and domains. We identified 25 such strategies and categorize them by the phase of concern in a resilience cycle and discuss which strategies are best applicable to a system with specific characteristics defined in our taxonomy.
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Chronic shocks are sometime called stresses or progressive risks (see Chapter “Perception-based Resilience: Accounting for Human Perception in Resilience Thinking With Its Theoretic and Model Bases”).
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The report of this workshop is here. http://shonan.nii.ac.jp/shonan/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/No.2015-32.pdf.
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The author is indebted to all the members of the Systems Resilience project. Especially the discussions with Kazuhiro Minami and Roberto Legaspi inspired me to come up with some of the ideas described in this paper. We also appreciate the generous support of Genshiro Kitagawa, the president of Research Organization of Information and Systems, in conducting this project.
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Maruyama, H. (2016). Taxonomy and General Strategies for Resilience. In: Yamagata, Y., Maruyama, H. (eds) Urban Resilience. Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39812-9_1
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