Probabilistic assessment of seismic risk of dwelling buildings of Barcelona: implications for the city resilience

This book brings together a series of theory and practice essays on risk management and adaptation in urban contexts within a resilient and multidimensional perspective. The book proposes a transversal approach with regard to the role of spatial planning in promoting and fostering risk management as well as institutions’ challenges for governing risk, particularly in relation to new forms of multi-level governance that may include stakeholders and citizen engagement. The different contributions focus on approaches, policies, and practices able to contrast risks in urban systems generating social inclusion, equity and participation through bottom-up governance forms and co-evolution principles. Case studies focus on lessons learned, as well as the potential and means for their replication and upscaling, also through capacity building and knowledge transfer. Among many other topics, the book explores difficulties encountered in, and creative solutions found, community and local experiences and capacities, organizational processes and integrative institutional, technical approaches to risk issue in cities.Thanks to University of Veracruz, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, CONACYT and PRODEP. This research has been partially funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) of the Spanish Government and by the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) of the European Union (UE) through projects referenced as: CGL2011-23621 and CGL2015-65913 -P (MINECO /FEDER, UE).Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft