Given the increasing uncertainty due to catastrophic climate events terrorist attacks and
economic crises this book addresses planning for resilience by focusing on sharing knowledge
among policy-makers urban planners emergency teams and citizens. Chapters look at the nature
of contemporary risks the widespread of resilience thinking and the gap between the
theoretical conception and the practices. The book explores how resilience implies a change in
planning practices highlighting the need for flexibility in terms of procedures and for
dynamism in the knowledge systems and learning processes that are the main tools for
interaction among different actors and scales. Given its breadth of coverage the book offers a
valuable resource for both academic readers (spatial planners geographers social scientists)
and practitioners (policymakers citizens' associations).
