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The risk city is future-oriented. Planning and practices of the risk city are also future-oriented. In this chapter I want to shed the light on understanding the resilience of the risk city and its futures, what I will call here: the risk city resilience trajectory. In other words, this chapter seeks to propose a conceptual framework for understanding future resilient of contemporary risk cities. Therefore, the main question in this chapter is how much our cities are resilient and how we can anticipate their trajectories in the future based on planning practices in the present. I suggest that a city’s resilience is composed of four interlinked dimensions: social, economic, environmental, and security resilience. Urban resilience is the totality of them. Yet, in this book, I focus on city resilience that is related to environmental crisis and climate change impacts and threats. This chapter aims to develop a theoretical framework for understanding and analyzing future urban resilience trajectories of the risk city. I employ the term risk city trajectory in conjunction with the term resilience to yield the concept of ‘Risk City Resilience Trajectories,’ or RCRT. RCRT can be used to assess and explain the direction, patterns, and properties of a given city with regard to its current and future resilience setting. This chapter suggests that “resilience requires frequent testing and evaluation” based on our experience and emerging knowledge on vulnerability and adaptation measures.
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Jabareen, Y. (2015). The Risk City Resilience Trajectory. In: The Risk City. Lecture Notes in Energy, vol 29. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9768-9_7
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