Review article
https://doi.org/10.17234/SocEkol.30.3.2
Socio-spatial approach to defining and researching resilience and sustainability
Jelena Zlatar Gamberožić
orcid.org/0000-0002-5835-3744
; Institut za društvena istraživanja u Zagrebu, Hrvatska, Frankopanska 22, 10 000 Zagreb
Sara Ursić
orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4383
; Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar, Trg Marka Marulića 19, 10 000 Zagreb, Hrvatska
Jana Vukić
orcid.org/0000-0003-2153-7555
; Filozofski fakultet, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Ivana Lučića 3, 10 000 Zagreb
Abstract
In recent decades, the concept of sustainability has become an integral part of the social sciences. Despite the fact that it arose from the ecological paradigm, the ecological dimension is only one of the four pillars of sustainability, alongside the economic, social and cultural dimensions, which together constitute what we today call sustainable development. In a similar way, we can observe the concept of resilience, positioned within the broader notion of the socio-ecological system, which is why it is often used in the responses to environmental, natural or biological disasters. The primary purpose of the analysis and evaluation of the concepts of resilience and sustainability in this paper is to attempt to set an integrative theoretical framework for the study of urban and rural areas, as well as local communities from a sociological perspective. The definition and analysis of these concepts, delimitation of their differences, and reflection on urban resilience, opens up the possibility of a more detailed and concrete research of resilience. Understanding spatial, social and cultural resilience is closely linked to the concept of community as an actor in this dynamic process. Especially in the context of social resilience as a tool for improving (rural and urban) space, the concept of community is crucial for understanding contemporary socio-spatial relations. At the same time, the spatiality and locality of the community are very important in re-thinking and re-examining some new dimensions of communities. The localization of resilience and sustainability happens precisely by means of the community, whether it is a spatial or cultural localization.
Keywords
sustainability; urban resilience; spatial resilience; cultural resilience; community resilience
Hrčak ID:
272327
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Publication date:
10.2.2022.
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