Exploring the Potential and Limits of the Resilience Agenda in Rapidly Urbanising Contexts

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Author(s)
Bene, C., Cannon, T., Gupte, J., Mehta, L., Tanner, T.
Publication language
English
Pages
61pp
Date published
01 Mar 2014
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
Disaster preparedness, resilience and risk reduction, Urban
Link
http://www.ids.ac.uk/publication/exploring-the-potential-and-limits-of-the-resil…

As part of the Tomorrow-Today Horizon Scanning Initiative supported by IDS, the project ‘Exploring the Potential and Limits of the Resilience Agenda in Rapidly Urbanising Contexts’ aims to analyse the emergence of the concept of ‘urban resilience’ in the literature and to assess the potential and limitations of this concept as an element of policy narrative, especially in the context of rapid urbanisation processes.

 
The research included two case studies (one large city – Mumbai in India, and one smaller city – Khulna in Bangladesh) with the aim of relying on these case studies to better understand some of the crucial processes characterising urbanisation, to scrutinise the dynamic and evolving linkages and processes that connect the rural and the urban in the peri-urban interface and the ways in which resources are differently defined, appropriated and used by various interest groups.