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Mapping Resilient Communities is a global survey aiming at shading light on the industrious and tireless work of public and private institutions, non-profit organisations and informal civic groups that promote ideas, projects and initiatives with a strong connotation of resilience, in its environmental, social and economic terms. The mapping activity is aimed at identifying tangible results based on experiences of knowledge transfer, capacity building and capacity development, intended as building something
According to UN-Habitat, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, resilience refers to the ability of an urban system to retain its structure in response to various environmental shocks and stresses, while adapting and regenerating, and simultaneously promoting a positive and sustainable change. Strengthening resilience means reducing risks, increasing skills and decreasing frailties, improving effective and forward-looking responses, developed according to a process of constructive awareness. Resili
Making resilient innovation and thinking outside the predefined schemes and categories encounters many difficulties – since it requires to work often against extremely bureaucratized processes and standardised rules and procedures, sometimes in very unstable political scenarios – and it clashes with backward cultural systems unable to model themselves on ideas that introduce radical changes, not only in terms of results but also in terms of language and methods of expression.
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