Dear Colleagues,

Planning linked to resilience is a relatively new concept, although there are certain parallels between the evolutionary concept of resilience and planning as a complex process and interconnected system of strategies and actions, which operate at multiple scales and timeframes, oriented toward multiple trajectories (Voghera, 2019). In fact, resilience refers to the capacity of the territorial systems and of their components to change, adapt, and transform over time with or without external disturbance, (Scheffer, 2009). According to the evolutionary approach (Davoudi et al., 2012), resilience is the capacity to achieve a different state of being: territorial and landscape change, through nonlinear transformation processes of their natural and anthropic characteristics, investing in socioecological performance and the quality of the system. This innovation needs the improvement of specific methodologies for evaluation and modeling environment, landscape, and territories for defining planning scenarios (Gobattoni et Al., 2011; Brunetta and Salata, 2019). Even before making predictions, the models are useful for comparing scenarios and, therefore, are a fundamental aid for the planning process, even more so if the goal is resilience and sustainability (Pelorosso et al., 2018; Leone et al., 2019).

We invite papers focusing on but not limited to the following topics:

• Evaluation models;
• Study cases for planning within a resilience approach;
• Innovating approach to planning;
• Sustainability and resilience territorial experimentation.

Prof. Antonio Leone
Prof. Dr. Angioletta Voghera
Guest Editors

References

Brunetta G., Salata S., 2019, Mapping Urban Resilience for Spatial Planning—A First Attempt to Measure the Vulnerability of the System, in Sustainability 2019, 11(8), 2331; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su11082331.

Brunetta G., Ceravolo R., Barbieri C.A., Borghini A., de Carlo F., Mela A., Beltramo S., Longhi A., De Lucia G., Ferraris S., Pezzoli A., Quagliolo C., Salata S., Voghera A., “Territorial Resilience: Toward a Proactive Meaning for Spatial Planning”, in Sustainability 2019, 11(8), 2286, pp. 17, doi:10.3390/su11082286, www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability, ISSN 2071-1050.

Davoudi, S., Shaw, K., Haider, L.J., Quinlan, A.E., Peterson, G.D., Wilkinson, C., Fünfgeld, H., Mcevoy, D. et Porter, L., 2012. Resilience: A bridging concept or a dead end? ‘Reframing’ resilience: Challenges for planning. Theory and practice interacting traps: Resilience assessment of a pasture management system in northern Afghanistan. Urban resilience: What does it mean in planning practice? Resilience as a useful concept for climate change adaptation? The politics of resilience for planning: A cautionary note. Planning Theory and Practice. 13(2): 299-333.

Folke, C., 2006. Resilience: The emergence of a perspective for social-ecological systems analyses. Global Environmental Change, Volume 16, pgs. 253-267.

Gobattoni, F., Lauro, G., Leone, A., Monaco, R. &Pelorosso R. (2011). A procedure for the mathematical analysis of landscape evolution and scenarios assessment. Landscape & Urban Planning, 103, 289–302. DOI:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2011.08.011

Holling, C. S., 1973. Resilience and stability of ecological systems. Annual Review of Ecological Systems, Volume 4, pgs. 1-23.

Leone A, Gobattoni F, Pelorosso R, Balena P (2019), L’uso del suolo agricolo è il fattore chiave per la sicurezza dei territori fragili, Atti della XXII Conferenza SIU: L’urbanistica italiana di fronte all’Agenda 2030, pp 857-862.

Meerow, S. et Newell J.P., 2017, Urban resilience for whom, what, when, where and why? Urban Geography, vol. 159, pgs. 62-75, http://0-dx-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.1080/02723638.2016.1206395.

Porter L., Davoudi S., 2012.  The politics of resilience for planning: A cautionary note, Planning Theory and Practice 13(2): 329-333.

PELOROSSO R, GOBATTONI F, LEONE A (2018). Increasing Hydrological Resilience Employing Nature-Based Solutions: A Modelling Approach to Support Spatial Planning, in: R Papa, R Fistola (Eds.) Smart Planning: Sustainability and Mobility in the Age of Change, Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018. Page: 71-82, https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.1007/978-3-319-77682-8_5.

Voghera A., The River agreement in Italy. Resilient planning for the co-evolution of communities and landscapes, land use policy, Press, available online 30 November 2019, ISSN: 0264-8377, https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104377.

Voghera A., Giudice B., “Evaluating and Planning Green Infrastructure: A Strategic Perspective for Sustainability and Resilience”, Sustainability 2019, 11(10), 2726, pp. 21, doi:10.3390/su11102726, https://0-www-mdpi-com.brum.beds.ac.uk/2071-1050/11/10/2726/htm, ISSN 2071-1050.

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• resilience
• planning
• evaluation
• socio-ecological performance