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TABLE OF CONTENTS SECTION I: INTRODUCTION & KEY CONCEPTS.......................................................................................................................................................1 Student Exercises & Classroom Activities.............................................................................................................................................................................................4 Reading List....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................5 “Cities and climate change: The precedents and why they matter” (Hebbert & Jankovic).....................................................................................................6 “Resilience for whom? The problem structuring process of the resilience analysis” (Herrera)................................................................................................17 SECTION II: RESILIENCE IN THEORY.....................................................................................................................................................................31 Reading List.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................33 Student Exercises & Classroom Activities..........................................................................................................................................................................................34 “Resilience thinking: Integrating resilience, adaptability and transformability” (Folke et al.)..............................................................................................35 “General resilience to cope with extreme events” (Carpenter et al.)..........................................................................................................................................42 “Focusing the meaning(s) of resilience: Resilience as a descriptive concept and a boundary object” (Brand & Jax)...................................................50 “Climate change resilience strategies for the building sector: Examining existing domains of resilience utilized by design professionals” (Rajkovic & Okour)......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................63 “Comparing conceptualizations of urban climate resilience in theory and practice” (Meerow & Stults).........................................................................74 SECTION III: IDENTIFYING & EVALUATING RESILIENCE......................................................................................................................................88 Reading List.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................90 Student Exercises & Classroom Activities..........................................................................................................................................................................................91 “Conceptualizing community resilience to natural hazards – the emBRACE framework” (Kruse et al.).........................................................................92 “Indicators for monitoring urban climate change resilience and adaptation” (Feldmeyer et al.)......................................................................................106 “Subjective measures of household resilience to climate variability and change: Insights from a nationally representative survey of Tanzania” (Jones et al.)...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................121 “Measuring household resilience to floods: A case study in the Vietnamese Mekong River Delta” (Nguyen & James)..........................................136 “Assessing Vulnerability to Urban Heat: A Study of Disproportionate Heat Exposure and Access to Refuge by Socio-Demographic Status in Portland, OR” (Voelkel et al.).................................................................................................................................................................................................................149