Contribution of resilience thinking to the spatial planning of dispersed territories, AESOP Conference - Utrecht, NL

Abstract

The research work presented in this paper focus on peri-urban systems of dispersed territories here understood as complex adaptive systems. These territories have been suffering turbulences along the decades that left socioeconomic and spatial marks, and this way, short, medium and long term answers are being required. The research is based on the assumption that resilience thinking can offer an analytical framework that enables the understanding of the phenomenon of the impact of these turbulences and ultimately, help to identify adaptation and innovation processes. Thus, further studies on this subj