German Annual of Spatial Research and Policy 2010

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Urban and Regional Resilience – A New Catchword or a Consistent Concept for Research and Practice?

   • Bernhard Müller

   Pages 1-13

3. Urban Resilience and New Institutional Theory – A Happy Couple for Urban and Regional Studies?

   • Thilo Lang

   Pages 15-24

4. Given the Complexity of Large Cities, Can Urban Resilience be Attained at All?

   • Sonja Deppisch, Mareike Schaerffer

   Pages 25-33

5. Rebuild the City! Towards Resource-efficient Urban Structures through the Use of Energy Concepts, Adaptation to Climate Change, and Land Use Management

   • Fabian Dosch, Lars Porsche

   Pages 35-48

6. Urban Restructuring – Making ‘More’ from ‘Less’

   • Manfred Fuhrich, Evi Goderbauer

   Pages 49-58

7. Accomodating Creative Knowledge Workers? Empirical Evidence from Metropoles in Central and Eastern Europe

   • Joachim Burdack, Bastian Lange

   Pages 59-68

8. A Strategy for Dealing with Change: Regional Development in Switzerland in the Context of Social Capital

   • Stephan Schmidt

   Pages 69-78

9. Path Dependency and Resilience – The Example of Landscape Regions

   • Andreas Röhring, Ludger Gailing

   Pages 79-88

10. Resilience and Resistance of Buildings and Built Structures to Flood Impacts – Approaches to Analysis and Evaluation

    • Thomas Naumann, Johannes Nikolowski, Sebastian Golz, Reinhard Schinke

    Pages 89-100

11. Planning for Risk Reduction and Organizing for Resilience in the Context of Natural Hazards

    • Gérard Hutter

    Pages 101-111

12. Vulnerability and Resilience: A Topic for Spatial Research from a Social Science Perspective

    • Heiderose Kilper, Torsten Thurmann

    Pages 113-119

13. Adaptability of Regional Planning in Lower Saxony to Climate Change

    • Enke Franck

    Pages 121-125

14. Dealing with Climate Change – The Opportunities and Conflicts of Integrating Mitigation and Adaptation

    • Sebastian Ebert

    Pages 127-129

15. Regional Climate Adaptation Research – The Implementation of an Integrative Regional Approach in the Dresden Model Region

    • Alfred Olfert, Jana Planek

    Pages 131-136

16. River Landscapes – Reference Areas for Regionally Specific Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change

    • Andreas Vetter, Frank Sondershaus

    Pages 137-141

17. Strategic Planning – Approaches to Coping with the Crisis of Shrinking Cities

    • Manfred Kühn, Susen Fischer

    Pages 143-146

18. Typologies of the Built Environment and the Example of Urban Vulnerability Assessment

    • Andreas Blum, Karin Gruhler

    Pages 147-150

19. Back Matter

    Pages 151-163

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Resilience is increasingly becoming a catchword in current discussions about urban and regional development. While there has been a strong research focus on sustainability, there is a lack of understanding of the processes and factors that make cities and regions more vulnerable and others more resilient, for example, when dealing with climate change, demographic decline and ageing, as well as economic crises. The German Annual of Spatial Research and Policy 2010 sheds some light on this by discussing examples of how actors deal with change. On the one hand, concepts are described and analysed which are oriented towards increasing urban regional resilience, for example regarding energy consumption, climate change, and urban decline. Moreover, institutional aspects are discussed. On the other hand, barriers for using the concept of resilience in planning are described and suggestions are made about how to deal with these barriers in strategic planning.

• landscape/regional and urban planning

From the reviews:

“This is a relevant book as it introduces international readers to the state of discussion within some German research institutes. … it outlines many topics that would deserve more attention both within the German discourse but also on an international level. … this book underlines that resilience is a term that despite its fluidity and its multiple meanings, interpretation and conceptualizations stimulates exchange and discussion among and between disciplines.” (Christian Kuhlicke, Erdkunde, Vol. 66 (4), 2012)

• Raumentwicklung (IÖR), Leibniz-Institut für Ökologische, Dresden, Germany

  Bernhard Müller

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