Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Defining Resilience: When the Concept Resists / Damienne Provitolo -- 1.1.A multidisciplinary construct -- 1.1.1.Material physics: resilience and resistance -- 1.1.2.Psychology: resilience, processes and properties of overcoming, reconstruction and reinforcement -- 1.1.3.Ecology: resilience, persistence and adaptation -- 1.2.Transfers in cindynics -- 1.2.1.The early 2000s -- 1.2.2.A response to theoretical and methodological issues -- 1.3.Defining resilience -- 1.3.1.The "rainbow" of meanings -- 1.3.2.Recognizing resilience -- 1.4.Two concepts for a single word -- 1.4.1.Resilience in the "techno-centric" paradigm -- 1.4.2.Resilience in the social sciences -- 1.5.Conclusion -- 1.6.Bibliography -- ch. 2 Resilience and Vulnerability: From Opposition towards a Continuum / Magali Reghezza-Zitt -- 2.1.One or several vulnerabilities? -- 2.1.1.Biophysical vulnerability -- 2.1.2.Social vulnerability -- 2.1.3.Territorial vulnerability -- 2.2.The vulnerability/resilience pair -- 2.2.1.Resilience as the opposite of vulnerability -- 2.2.2.Resilience as a component of vulnerability -- 2.3.Beyond opposition: the notion of "resiliencery vulnerability" -- 2.3.1.Explanation of the factual part of the model -- 2.3.2.Explanation of the "resiliencery vulnerability" part of the model -- 2.3.3.The vulnerability/resilience pair in the "resiliencery vulnerability" model -- 2.4.Conclusion -- 2.5.Bibliography -- ch. 3 Resilience: a Question of scale / Geraldine Djament-Tran -- 3.1.Resilience as a scalar problem -- 3.1.1.Resilience and temporal scales -- 3.1.2.Resilience and spatial scales -- 3.1.3.Resilience to the issue of the desynchronization of spatial and temporal scales -- 3.2.The "glocalization" of risk and scalar reconfiguration of resilience -- 3.2.1.Globalization changes the scale of the event and of vulnerability -- 3.2.2.Globalization leads to a re-thinking of the scales of resilience -- 3.2.3.Who controls resilience? How to find the correct management scale -- 3.3.Changing scales to explain resilience -- 3.3.1.From individual resilience to the resilience of territories -- 3.3.2.Historicizing resilience: working with temporal scales -- 3.3.3.Scalar interactions, fundamental elements of the resilience process -- 3.4.Conclusion -- 3.5.Bibliography -- ch. 4 Resilience: A Systemic Property / Celine Pierdet -- 4.1.Resilience and systemic analysis -- 4.1.1.Defining a spatial system -- 4.1.2.Criteria for a resilient spatial system -- 4.2.The case of the city, a complex sociosystem -- 4.2.1.The synthetic approach to systemic analysis -- 4.2.2.The nature of interactions in a spatial system -- 4.3.Maintaining the cohesion of the system to overcome the crisis -- 4.3.1.A dichotomy of "kernels"/"margins" -- 4.3.2.Disturbances with different origins -- 4.3.3.The system's response to disturbances -- 4.4.Conclusion -- 4.5.Bibliography -- ch. 5 From the Resilience of Constructions to the Resilience of Territories: A New Framework for Thought and for Action / Bruno Barroca -- 5.1.The conditions of resilient planning on the scale of the territory -- 5.1.1.Project urbanism, a new reference framework -- 5.1.2.A risk-integrating place-based project -- 5.2.Applying resilience: adaptation and resistance of the material components -- 5.2.1.Example of resistance to earthquakes -- 5.2.2.Example of resistance to flooding -- 5.3.Conclusion -- 5.4.Bibliography -- ch. 6 Adapting Territorial Systems Through their Components: The Case of Critical Networks / Damien Serre -- 6.1.Technical and critical networks, strategic elements of resilience -- 6.1.1.Technical networks in towns -- 6.1.2.Technical networks: critical infrastructures -- 6.2.Choosing adaptations -- 6.2.1.Modeling the urban system -- 6.2.2.The role of networks in the urban system -- 6.2.3.The tools at our disposal -- 6.2.4.The development of decision-making tools -- 6.3.Conclusion -- 6.4.Bibliography -- ch. 7 Resilience and Global Climate Change / Claude Kergomard -- 7.1.Resilience and global change: scales, temporalities and uncertainty -- 7.1.1.Global change and the city: a problem of scale? -- 7.1.2.Global change, disasters and resilience: questions of temporalities -- 7.1.3.Uncertainty: a key issue -- 7.2.Adaptation to global change and resilience -- 7.2.1.Climate change: from impacts to adaptation -- 7.2.2.Adaptation to climate change: the diversity of themes and ambiguities -- 7.2.3.Adaptation in question -- 7.3.Urban resilience and sustainable urban planning practices -- 7.3.1.Temporal horizons and diversity in practices for sustainable urban development -- 7.3.2.Eco-districts, ecological cities: what level of resilience? -- 7.4.Conclusion -- 7.5.Bibliography -- ch. 8 Organizational Resilience: Preparing and Overcoming Crisis / Richard Laganier -- 8.1.The components and temporalities of a crisis -- 8.1.1.System disruption -- 8.1.2.The components of a crisis -- 8.1.3.The time of crisis -- 8.2.Lessons from feedback -- 8.2.1.Managerial flaws -- 8.2.2.Cultural deficiencies -- 8.2.3.Organizational failings -- 8.3.Organizing to overcome a crisis -- 8.3.1.Before: mitigating and preparing for future crises -- 8.3.2.During the crisis: intervening to limit impacts and control the situation -- 8.3.3.After the crisis: re-establishment -- 8.4.Conclusion -- 8.5.Bibliography -- ch. 9 (Re)Constructing Resilient Districts: Experiences Compared / Stephanie Beucher -- 9.1.(Re)New Orleans: Big Easy as a resilience laboratory -- 9.1.1."Rebuild it bigger" and "the optimism of disaster" in the United States -- 9.1.2."Rebuild it safer": impossible strategies for urban retreat -- 9.1.3."Rebuild it fairer": how to negotiate "resilience" and "spatial justice" -- 9.1.4.Resilience is not always a good thing -- 9.2.Urban renewal and resilience in East London: the Thames Gateway -- 9.2.1.A development project: a beacon in the context of major risk -- 9.2.2.From sustainable development to resilience -- 9.2.3.Resilience as a multiplicity of crisis preparation structures -- 9.2.4.TE2100: a resilience strategy -- 9.3.Conclusion -- 9.4.Bibliography -- ch. 10 Resilience, Memory and Practices / Antoine Le Blanc -- 10.1.The resilient system between identity and evolution -- 10.1.1.Resilience and district identities -- 10.1.2.Temporalities and memories -- 10.1.3.The conservation of ruins: an example -- 10.2.Resilience and retaining a memory of risk -- 10.2.1.The ambiguities of preserving traces of catastrophes as heritage -- 10.2.2.The symbolic construction of disaster and risk -- 10.2.3.Resilience and forgetting -- 10.3.The problem of identity -- 10.3.1.Resilience confronted by the urban palimpsest -- 10.3.2.The example of Dresden -- 10.4.Conclusion -- 10.5.Bibliography -- ch. 11 Critique of Pure Resilience / Samuel Rufat -- 11.1.Resilience to the test of discourses -- 11.1.1.Resilience as a new label -- 11.1.2.Resilience between risk production and risk construction -- 11.1.3.The waltz of notions -- 11.1.4.Resilience as a political discourse -- 11.2.The dark side of resilience -- 11.2.1.The fallacies of resilience -- 11.2.2.The resilience imperative and social Darwinism -- 11.2.3.Adapt or perish! -- 11.2.4.The return of a moral interpretation of disasters -- 11.2.5."There is no alternative" -- 11.3."Good" or "bad", who is declaring resilience? -- 11.3.1.The resilience of slums -- 11.3.2.Resilience and governmentality -- 11.4.Conclusion -- 11.5.Bibliography.