How the concept of resilience is able to improve urban risk management?

Designing the territory adaptation capacities against natural risks has become an essential issue. Building adapted urban networks and cities that will face risk events induces to think this adaptation in a long term perspective. This adaptation capacity has to be done taking into account the spatial shapes of the specific environments, in particular the urban configurations, including the urban infrastructures and buildings, the urban shapes and future developments, and the social issues to plan the urban resilience.

This conference aims at making a research state of the art leading to the conception of antagonist issues: flooded cities – resilient cities, turning the negative effects of flood in a positive one allowing designing cities able to integrate flooding in their shapes and functions.

Programme

Day 1: Temporal Approach

• Urban and social history of natural risks.
• Resiliencery vulnerability notion: looking in another direction to study vulnerability and resilience of systems in face of risk or disaster.
• A geo-archeological approach to explain urban disaster.
• Evolution of natural hazard assessment methods.
• City planners for a metropolitan resilience. Some examples in the Ile de France Region.
• Designing flood adapted cities.
• The resilience engineering offer for municipalities.
• Urban resilience: an issue for urban engineering.

Day 2: Spatial Approach

• Strategies for urban flood integration.
• "FloodResilienCity" project contributions.
• Methods and tools for Urban Flood Management.
• Post hurricane planning in Louisiana and New Orleans.
• SMARTeST : how can technology contribute to urban flood resilience systems?
• Organizational resilience assessment method: from theory to waste management application.
• Urban technical resilience assessment for natural hazards.
• Organizational resilience: a multidisciplinary socio-technique challenge.