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From the politics of urgency to the governance of preparedness: a research agenda on urban vulnerability

Medd, W; Marvin, S

Authors

W Medd

S Marvin



Abstract

To date, little social science understanding has been developed about what it would mean to strategically build resilience in the context of such rich interdependencies between social, technical and natural worlds. We argue that shifts in strategies to deal with urban crises marks a turn from the politics of urgency, characteristic of crisis management, towards a governance of preparedness, characterised by strategies to build urban resilience. Social science needs to develop research agendas that critically engage with different understandings of resilience and the challenges of building resilience across different scales of urban governance.

Citation

Medd, W., & Marvin, S. (2005). From the politics of urgency to the governance of preparedness: a research agenda on urban vulnerability. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 13(2), 44-49. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5973.2005.00455.x

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Jan 1, 2005
Deposit Date Sep 19, 2007
Journal Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management
Print ISSN 0966-0879
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 13
Issue 2
Pages 44-49
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5973.2005.00455.x
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5973.2005.00455.x