Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability (CERIS), Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Georesources (DECivil), Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon (UL), Lisbon, Portugal.
J Environ Manage. 2019 Jan 15;230:282-292. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.09.078. Epub 2018 Oct 4.
Over the last decades 'resilience' has particularly arisen as an attractive perspective with respect to cities. As cities continue to expand, their susceptibility to uncertainties and new challenges, such as climate change, has increased, rendering 'urban resilience' an increasingly favoured concept in the realm of Urban Development, Planning and Management (UDPM). Despite recent reviews, an updated analysis of the concept is required to understand whether there is in fact scientific evidence to support the expansion and favouring of 'urban resilience' in UDPM. The need to understand how the concept evolved is further emphasised by the need to perceive how the distinct sciences have contributed to its development, and which were the focuses and conceptual underpinnings of such evolution. Thus, the objective of this paper is to provide a broader review of the multidimensional concept of 'urban resilience', while understanding how distinct research fields have contributed to its inception and expansion, and how distinct conceptualisations of resilience have influenced its evolution. Supported by a bibliometric analysis of urban-centric publications, this paper highlights the recent extensive growth and expanding application of 'urban resilience' to distinct research fields, as well as an apparent theoretical stabilisation of the concept, which reemphasises the idea of a three-dimensional conceptual resilience perspective in scientific literature: (1) 'engineering', (2) 'ecological', and (3) 'social-ecological resilience'. Consequently, this research emphasises that, if the related conceptual underpinnings are clear, 'urban resilience' can potentially serve as an 'integrative metaphor', adapted by diverse stakeholders, to reinforce UDPM initiatives.
在过去的几十年里，“韧性”特别成为城市研究的一个有吸引力的视角。随着城市的不断扩张，它们对不确定性和新挑战（如气候变化）的敏感性增加了，使得“城市韧性”在城市发展、规划和管理（UDPM）领域成为一个越来越受欢迎的概念。尽管最近进行了综述，但为了了解是否有科学证据支持 UDPM 中“城市韧性”的扩展和青睐，仍需要对该概念进行更新分析。理解概念的演变过程尤为重要，因为需要了解不同的科学如何为其发展做出贡献，以及这种演变的重点和概念基础是什么。因此，本文的目的是提供对“城市韧性”这一多维度概念的更广泛的综述，同时理解不同的研究领域如何为其产生和扩展做出贡献，以及韧性的不同概念化如何影响其演变。本文通过对以城市为中心的出版物进行文献计量分析，强调了“城市韧性”在不同研究领域的最近广泛增长和扩展应用，以及该概念明显的理论稳定化，这再次强调了科学文献中三维概念韧性视角的想法：（1）“工程”，（2）“生态”和（3）“社会-生态韧性”。因此，这项研究强调，如果相关概念基础清晰，“城市韧性”可以作为一个“综合隐喻”，为不同的利益相关者所采用，以加强 UDPM 倡议。
