This paper explores and extends understanding of the role and significance of whole-of-society resilience pro-grammes that support cities when dealing with complex crises,like the COVID-19 pandemic.Highlighting the co...This paper explores and extends understanding of the role and significance of whole-of-society resilience pro-grammes that support cities when dealing with complex crises,like the COVID-19 pandemic.Highlighting the complexity of whole-of-society resilience as different actors locally shape it,we ask the question:How can collab-oration between formal and informal resilience practices help to enhance resilience across the‘whole-of-society’?We answer this question by reviewing the importance of whole-of-society resilience and its complexity in a city’s governance of the COVID-19 crisis.We argue that the necessity of renewing approaches to building lo-cal resilience capabilities across the whole-of-society requires synchronisation across and between formal and informal approaches-that is,“bottom-up”and governmental initiatives-to meet the diverse needs of com-munities.Secondly,we detail two recent practice-orientated initiatives that have taken a renewal approach to building resilience through the involvement of whole-of-society in planning recovery from COVID-19 using in-ternational standard ISO/TS 22393;and a new initiative called the National Consortium for Societal Resilience[UK+].Finally,we signpost a set of critical questions for whole-of-society resilience practice.展开更多
基金the Economic and Social Research Council(ESRC)and the University of Manchester for the financial support of this research as part of the UK Research and Innovation’s rapid response to COVID-19[Project number:ES/V015346/1].
文摘This paper explores and extends understanding of the role and significance of whole-of-society resilience pro-grammes that support cities when dealing with complex crises,like the COVID-19 pandemic.Highlighting the complexity of whole-of-society resilience as different actors locally shape it,we ask the question:How can collab-oration between formal and informal resilience practices help to enhance resilience across the‘whole-of-society’?We answer this question by reviewing the importance of whole-of-society resilience and its complexity in a city’s governance of the COVID-19 crisis.We argue that the necessity of renewing approaches to building lo-cal resilience capabilities across the whole-of-society requires synchronisation across and between formal and informal approaches-that is,“bottom-up”and governmental initiatives-to meet the diverse needs of com-munities.Secondly,we detail two recent practice-orientated initiatives that have taken a renewal approach to building resilience through the involvement of whole-of-society in planning recovery from COVID-19 using in-ternational standard ISO/TS 22393;and a new initiative called the National Consortium for Societal Resilience[UK+].Finally,we signpost a set of critical questions for whole-of-society resilience practice.
