Promote urban resilience through collaborative urban services management
1. PROMOTE URBAN RESILIENCE
THROUGH COLLABORATIVE URBAN
SERVICES MANAGEMENT
Marie Toubin Session: Natural Hazard Resilient Cities
2. Presentation plan
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Context and objectives of the research
The new resilience approach in risk management
An operational translation for local authorities
The role and importance of urban services
Methodology
An auto-diagnosis tool to identify dependencies
Analysis of interdependencies between urban services
A typology requiring to refine the approach
Perspectives
Territorial analysis of networks resilience
Assessment of city’s resilience
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3. What is resilience?
3 Context and objectives
The resilience approach
Systemic approach
Multi-scalar considerations
New abilities: adaptation,
absorption, learning
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4. Can the city be considered as a system ?
4 Context and objectives
The resilience approach
Urban sub-systems
Urban functions: shelter,
economy, culture, …
Integrated assessment:
interactions, spatial and
temporal scales
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5. Urban resilience
5 Context and objectives
The resilience approach
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6. Urban functions depend on networks
6 Context and objectives
An operational translation for local authorities
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7. Urban functions depend on networks
7 Context and objectives
An operational translation for local authorities
Improve urban resilience by
improving urban services’
resilience
Provide basic needs to the
population
Enable the continuity of
economic activity
Facilitate recovery
A levier of action for local
authorities
Involvement of all territory
stakeholders
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8. Urban services specificities
8 Context and objectives
The role and importance of urban services
Socio-technical objects
Managers with social and economical objectives
Technical complexity and geographical extension
Necessary before, during and after a disaster
Preparation: vulnerability reduction, human and material resources pre-
positioning
Reaction: avoiding additional risks, safety and emergency actions
Recovery: basic needs, reconstruction
With a resilient management?
Public and private societies
Sector-based management
Numerous and complex interdependencies
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9. Urban services specificities
9 Context and objectives
The role and importance of urban services
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10. Assess the functioning of urban
services under disturbances
10 Methodology
An auto-diagnosis tool
Input-output description at a macroscopic level
Avoid safety and competitiveness issues
Overcome lack of knowledge
Criticality assessment:
Capacity of autonomy?
Impacts of disruption?
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11. A system of systems
11 Methodology
Analysis of interdependencies
Matrix construction and graph analysis
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12. Typology of interdependencies
12 Methodology
Analysis of interdependencies
Outcome of a collaborative workshop
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13. Discussion about difficulties and
solutions
13 Methodology
Need for refining the description
Differenciate difficulties and solutions following the system
Punctual/integrated, protection/reorganisation,
strenghtening/alternatives
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14. Identify components and
interdependencies within a territory
14 Perspectives
Territorial analysis of networks resilience
Locate critical components of each system
Assess their intrinsic vulnerability (exposure to risks, internal
resources and functioning)
Assess their dependencies to external resources (before, during and
after a crisis)
Identify their strategies
Resilient measures
Actions to be realized (location, time, means)
Compare with disturbance scenarios:
Failures in resource supply
Changes in the risk scenario (duration, intensity)
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15. Match the needs of urban issues with
services impacts
15 Perspectives
Assessment of city’s resilience
A service disruption as a
new risk for the territory
Impacts for economic,
political and social issues
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16. The RESILIS Project
16 Perspectives
Assessment of city’s resilience
Articulate the urban services analysis within an integrated
approach
Technical resilience
•Technical networks,
buildings
•Resistance, absorption,
redundancy
Organizational
Cultural resilience resilience
•Decision-makers, •Urban services,
populations, managers administrations,
•Preparation, autonomy, activities
adaptation •Anticipation,
planification, flexibility
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17. Conclusion
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18. Conclusion
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19. Conclusion
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20. 20 Thank you for your attention
This research is part of the Project Resilis
(www.resilis.fr) led by Egis and funded by the French
National Research Agency.
Marie.toubin@eivp-paris.fr
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