Jordi Morató - Böcker

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.

This book focuses on the relation of intangible heritage with technology, exploring the world of appropriate practices. Intangible cultural heritage is a community-based concept, and must be recognized as such by the communities, groups or individuals that recreate, maintain and transmit it.The book further highlights that intangible cultural heritage can contribute with ideas beyond technologies, in areas such as social organization and cohesion, which can contribute to the resilience of a society.