Risk and Resilience

Alessandro Balducci is professor of planning and urban policies at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He served as president AESOP (Association of the European Schools of Planning), chair of the Italian Society of Urbanists (SIU), and is founding member of the European Urban Research Association (EURA)..

• Risk and Uncertainty: Foundational Issues.- Planning for Resilience.- Risk Mitigation and Resilience of Human Settlement.- Resilience, Cohesion Policies and the Socio-Ecological Crisis.- Some Notes on Socio-Economic Territorial Imbalances in Contemporary Italy.- Socio-Spatial Inequalities in Urban Peripheries: the Case of Italy.- Natural Risks Exposure and Hazard Avoidance Strategies: Learning from Vesuvius.-  Urban Resilience as Changing Ways of Governing: The implementation of the 100 Resilient Cities Initiative in Rome and Milan.