Hassler, U and Kohler, N (2014) The ideal of resilient systems and questions of continuity. Building Research & Information, 42(2), pp. 158-167. ISSN 0961-3218
Abstract
The importance of resilience is contextualized within the sustainable long-term management of the built environment. The built environment is considered as a set of different capitals (natural, physical, economic, social and cultural) with limited possibilities for substitution between the capitals. Resilience is related to other concepts used in the search for a sustainable development of the built environment: continuity, stability and equilibrium, duration and durability, robustness and vulnerability, fast- and slow-moving risks. Cultural capital (in its material and intangible forms) as well as natural capital are significant due to long foresight considerations, high uncertainty and limitations on substitutions. Different time and scale categories and the conservation of different capitals need different anticipation and resilience strategies. It is argued that natural and cultural capitals can be transmitted if they are conservatively used and if adaptation occurs slowly. Specific strategies are needed for the non-recoverability of cultural capital.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | adaptation; built environment; continuity; cultural capital; durability; resilience; social-ecological system; sustainability; temporal perspectives |
| Index terms: | stability, strategy, social-ecological system, adaptation, duration, durability, built environment, sustainable development, conservation, vulnerability |
| Subjects: | management, material degradation and durability, environmental hazards, health safety and environment, environmental science, user focus, infrastructure and transport systems, structural engineering, environmental policy, project controls |
| Topics: | Sustainability, Engineering Principles, Design Practice, Construction Materials, Business Strategy, Time Control, Urban Studies, Health and Safety |
| Descriptive scope: | 1 C |
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