Abstract
The resilience concept and its application in the context of urban security encounter a series of grounded challenges for scientists, policy-makers, planning bodies, and the manifold authorities of jurisdiction and civil services. This chapter outlines a joint effort to explore structural and functional similarities and differences in France and Germany with regard to crisis management in urban systems, with the ultimate goal of identifying potential pathways of applying the resilience concept and exploring the potential for cross-national collaborative actions. Specific aspects of urban resilience and crisis management are portrayed: cross-border and international aspects, community resilience, psychosocial crisis management, and knowledge and information. In both countries, past and ongoing activities demonstrate the potential of connecting scientists and decision-makers in policy and practice to integrate multiple perspectives, bridging existing barriers between research, policy, and operational practice, and stimulating new technologies and innovative solutions. Furthermore, it became clear that enhancing urban resilience requires governance structures that promote cooperation among and between science, policy, and practice. Likewise, crisis management practices can be enriched through bi-national partnerships, collective activities, and shared co-management efforts. It is therefore suggested to further examine the various network strategies within hierarchical and horizontal collaboration structures and address the question of how the structural arrangements for collaboration within crisis management networks influence disaster resilience in urban areas.
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The preparative activities were made possible through a EURIAS Senior Fellowship, funded under the European Commission’s Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Actions (FP7 COFUND Program; grant agreement no 609400), provided to Juergen Weichselgartner. He also gratefully acknowledges the core funding from the French LabEx (Laboratoire d’Excellence) program to organize the workshop together with Bernard Guézo. Matching funds were provided by Cerema via the French Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy (MEDDE/SDSIE) and the French Ministry of Housing and Territorial Equality (MLET), the German Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK), and TH Köln—University of Applied Sciences.
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Weichselgartner, J. et al. (2018). Urban Resilience and Crisis Management: Perspectives from France and Germany. In: Fekete, A., Fiedrich, F. (eds) Urban Disaster Resilience and Security. The Urban Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68606-6_27
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