German Annual of Spatial Research and Policy 2010

• Urban Resilience and New Institutional Theory – A Happy Couple for Urban and Regional Studies?.- Given the Complexity of Large Cities, Can urban resilience be Attained at all?.- Rebuild the City! Towards Resource-efficient Urban Structures through the Use of Energy concepts, Adaptation to Climate Change, and Land Use Management.- Urban Restructuring – Making „More“ from „Less“.- Resilience and Resistance of Buildings and Built Structures to Flood Impacts – Approaches to Analysis and Evaluation.- Accommodating Creative Knowledge Workers? Empirical Evidence from Metropoles in Central and Eastern Europe.- Path Dependency and Resilience. The Example of Landscape Regions.- Vulnerability and Resilience: A Topic for Spatial Research from a Social Science Perspective.- A Strategy for Dealing with Change: Regional Development in Switzerland in a Context of Social Capital.- Planning for Risk Reduction and Organizing for Resilience in the Context of Natural Hazards

From the reviews: "This is a relevant book as it introduces international readers to the state of discussion within some German research institutes. ... it outlines many topics that would deserve more attention both within the German discourse but also on an international level. ... this book underlines that resilience is a term that despite its fluidity and its multiple meanings, interpretation and conceptualizations stimulates exchange and discussion among and between disciplines." (Christian Kuhlicke, Erdkunde, Vol. 66 (4), 2012)