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Learning Package 2:
Resilient buildings and infrastructure
Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment
Dr Richard Haigh
Resilience Buildings and Infrastructure
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Disaster Resilience in the Built EnvironmentLearning Package 2: Resilient buildings and infrastructure
Dr Richard Haigh
Learning Package 2:
Resilient buildings and infrastructure
Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment
Dr Richard Haigh
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Introduction
• In this learning package you will:– Work to define the concept of resilience
from different disciplinary perspectives – Learn more about resilience in the
context of communities and their built environment
– Read about creating a culture of resilience within communities
– Check what you have learned so far with reflective exercises
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resilience
from Latin resilire, ‘to recoil’
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re·sil·ience
Function: n
1: the power or ability to return to the original form, position, etc., after being bent, compressed, or stretched; elasticity.
2: ability to recover readily from illness, depression, adversity, or the like; buoyancy.
Collins English Dictionary
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“Resilience, or the power of resisting a body of motion”
Thomas TregboldElementary Principles of Carpentry, 1853, p78
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"the capacity of an ecosystem to tolerate disturbance without collapsing into a qualitatively different state that is controlled by a different set of processes. A resilient ecosystem can withstand shocks and rebuild itself when necessary”
Crawford Stanley Holling"Resilience and stability of ecological
systems". in: Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics. Vol 4 :1-23,
1973
‘Resilience in the dynamics of economy-environment Systems’
Perrings (1998)published in Environmental and Resource Economics 11(3–4), 503–520.
“Social resilience is the ability of groups or communities to cope with external stresses and disturbances as a result of social, political and environmental change”
Adgers (2000) Social and ecological resilience: are they related? Progress in Human Geography 24(3), 347-364.
"The capacity of a system, community or society potentially exposed to hazards to adapt, by resisting or changing in order to reach and maintain an acceptable level of functioning and structure. This is determined by the degree to which the social system is capable of organizing itself to increase its capacity for learning from past disasters for better future protection and to improve risk reduction measures.”
Terminology of disaster risk reductionUNISDR
UK Resilience“The Government's aim is to reduce the risk from emergencies so that people can go about their business freely and with confidence.”
UK Cabinet Office
Disaster resilience of a community
Learning Package 2:
Resilient buildings and infrastructure
Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment
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Characteristics of resilience in the built environment
• Understanding• Resistance or
absorbance• Redundancy• Adaptability and
tolerance
• Learning• Interconnectedn
ess• Coping with the
unknown• Creativity• Improvisation
Learning Package 2:
Resilient buildings and infrastructure
Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment
Dr Richard Haigh
Characteristics of resilience
Understanding know threats
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Learning Package 2:
Resilient buildings and infrastructure
Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment
Dr Richard Haigh
Characteristics of resilience
• Capacity to resist or absorb
• Some physical redundancy
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Learning Package 2:
Resilient buildings and infrastructure
Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment
Dr Richard Haigh
Characteristics of resilience
Functional redundancy
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Learning Package 2:
Resilient buildings and infrastructure
Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment
Dr Richard Haigh
Characteristics of resilience
• Adaptability and tolerance– Loose coupling– Localised
capacity
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Learning Package 2:
Resilient buildings and infrastructure
Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment
Dr Richard Haigh
Characteristics of resilience
Learning
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Learning Package 2:
Resilient buildings and infrastructure
Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment
Dr Richard Haigh
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Characteristics of resilience in the built environment
• Understanding• Resistance or
absorbance• Redundancy• Adaptability and
tolerance
• Learning• Interconnectedn
ess• Coping with the
unknown• Creativity• Improvisation
Learning Package 2:
Resilient buildings and infrastructure
Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment
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In summary
• It is easier to focus on short term solutions, and developing disaster resilience is complex and multi-dimensional
Learning Package 2:
Resilient buildings and infrastructure
Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment
Dr Richard Haigh
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Other learning material
• Reading material• Reading list• Scenario• Case study• Activity
