{"id":74973,"date":"2022-04-21T10:54:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T09:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenblue.com\/?p=74973"},"modified":"2022-04-21T10:56:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T09:56:30","slug":"what-is-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenblue.com\/gb\/what-is-resilience\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Resilience?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Resilience is a current \u201cbuzzword\u201d, particularly in relation to our urban spaces and infrastructure, but what does it mean? What defines resilience? Who defines resilience? And more importantly, what can every one of us do to encourage resilience?<\/p>\n<p>The Oxford Dictionary defines resilience as:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cthe capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness\u201d and \u201cthe ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So what does that mean?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_75126\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75126\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-75126\" src=\"https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Hackney-Leonard-Circus-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Hackney-Leonard-Circus-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Hackney-Leonard-Circus-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Hackney-Leonard-Circus-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Hackney-Leonard-Circus-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Hackney-Leonard-Circus-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Hackney-Leonard-Circus.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-75126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hackney, Leonard Circus, Shoreditch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>GreenBlue Urban believe that resilience as in urban resilience has to be designed at an early stage. Whilst some projects may be resilient \u201cby mistake\u201d, it is more successful if we all try to make sure that any changes that we make in our urban areas are designed with future changes in mind.<\/p>\n<p>None of us has access to a crystal ball, but thankfully there has been huge progress in future forecasting for urban areas. Not only how we are going to use our public realm, but what the challenges are likely to be. Climate change is, of course, top of the list, but there are other potential issues that need consideration. Changing demographics, changing transport modes and even long term health problems mean that we have to try to plan ahead.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By 2050, estimates predict that 70% or more of the population will live in cities. 60% of new urban settlements are yet to be built!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The human race is remarkably resilient \u2013 over millennia we have <a href=\"\/gb?p=40449\"><strong>adapted to changing <\/strong><\/a>circumstances and climates. Often these changes have been forced upon us, and adaptation is necessary for survival. With modern technology, we can predict some of the changes, but COVID-19 has shown us that we cannot fully guarantee what will happen in the future. The ability to understand the past, and plan for the future is unique to humanity, so we are responsible to harness this ability to provide for future generations.<\/p>\n<h3>So what does this have to do with GreenBlue Urban?<\/h3>\n<p>GreenBlue Urban has always promoted the dictum of<strong> \u201cevery tree should have the same opportunity to attain species potential longevity\u201d <\/strong>Some of the most resilient cities in the world also have high canopy levels having successfully used the GreenBlue <a href=\"\/gb?page_id=52039\"><strong>Arbosystem Tree Pit Systems<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 resilience and canopy cover seem to be closely correlated: Vancouver, Toronto and Boston are all in the top 12 of both. Therefore, it is vital that we understand that if we are to retain our critical canopy cover, we have to plant trees in such a way that they can attain maturity. Our ancestors used trees as shelter, fuel, medicine and many other uses; we don\u2019t need trees for these uses now in the same way, but maybe we don\u2019t realise what other benefits our urban canopy does for us.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_75120\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75120\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-75120\" src=\"https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Chicago-Navy-Pier-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Chicago-Navy-Pier-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Chicago-Navy-Pier-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Chicago-Navy-Pier-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Chicago-Navy-Pier-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Chicago-Navy-Pier-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Chicago-Navy-Pier.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-75120\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Navy Pier, Chicago<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Why are we talking about resilience?<\/h3>\n<p>There are many deserted cities and ghost towns across the world, abandoned for many reasons: economic downturns, natural or man-made disasters, wars or being by-passes as transport links. However, some towns have become uninhabitable due to climate change \u2013 removal of vegetation leading to extreme heat stress. Therefore if we are creating places where we can \u201cbounce back better\u201d from future urban challenges, we need to plant sustainably to help with urban resilience for future generations.<\/p>\n<p>Our upcoming campaign <strong>&#8220;Resilient Places&#8221;<\/strong> will tackle the current economic, environmental and social threats that are how we can collaborate to help <b>promote health, well-being and inclusivity for sustainable growth<\/b>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_75131\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75131\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-75131\" src=\"https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Archway-Gyratory-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Archway-Gyratory-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Archway-Gyratory-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Archway-Gyratory-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Archway-Gyratory-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Archway-Gyratory-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Archway-Gyratory.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-75131\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Islington, Archway Gyratory<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resilience is a current \u201cbuzzword\u201d, particularly in relation to our urban spaces and infrastructure, but what does it mean? What defines resilience? Who defines resilience? And more importantly, what can every one of us do to encourage resilience? The Oxford Dictionary defines resilience as: \u201cthe capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness\u201d and \u201cthe ability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":75120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sustainable-development"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What is Resilience? - GreenBlue Urban<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/greenblue.com\/gb\/what-is-resilience\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What is Resilience? - GreenBlue Urban\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Resilience is a current \u201cbuzzword\u201d, particularly in relation to our urban spaces and infrastructure, but what does it mean? 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