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This book is on urban resilience - how to design and operate cities that can withstand major threats such as natural disasters and economic downturns and how to recover from them. It is a collection of latest research results from two separate but collaborating research groups, namely, researchers in urban design and those on general resilience theory. The book systematically deals with the core aspects of urban resilience: systems, management issues and populations. The taxonomy can be broken down into threats, systems, resilience cycles and recovery types in the context of urban resilience. It starts with a discussion of systems resilience models, focusing on the central idea that resilience is a moving average of costs (a set of trajectories in a two-player game paradigm). The second section explores management issues, including planning, operating and emergency response in cities with specific examples such as land-use planning and carbon-neutral scenarios for urban planning. The next section focuses on urban dwellers and specific people-related issues in the context of resilience. Agent-based simulation of behaviour and perception-based resilience, as well as brand crisis management are representative examples of the topics discussed. A further section examines systems like public utilities - including managing power supplies, cyber-security issues and models for pandemics. It concludes with a discussion of the future challenges and risks facing complex systems, for example in resilient power grids, making it essential reading for a wide range of researchers and policymakers.

Summary of Indigenous efflorescence : beyond revitalisation in Sapmi and Ainu Mosir / summarised in South Sami by David Kroik -- Introduction / Gerald Roche with Åsa Virdi Kroik and Hiroshi Maruyama -- Contexts of efflorescence / Gerald Roche -- Narratives of truth: an exploration of narrative theory as a tool in decolonising research / Markus Nyström -- Cikornay National Trust: emancipation of Our Ainu land from colonial land use and for the enjoyment of ainu Culture / Kouichi Kaizawa ; translated by Masumi Tanaka -- 'He might come back' : views on Sámi cultural and linguistic revitalisation from Finland / Tero Mustonen -- Documenting Sami cultural landscapes / Ewa Ljungdahl -- Revival of salmon resources and restoration of a traditional ritual of the Ainu, the indigenous people of Japan / Yōsuke Kosaka -- The racing of Ainu hearts : our wish for one salmon river / Shizue Ukaji ; translated by Miku Maeda -- Viessuoje mujttuo : saving an indigenous language through new technology / Oscar Sedholm -- In search of virtual learning spaces for Sámi languages / Hanna Outakoski -- Tjutju / Coppélie Cocq -- Establishment of the Ainu Indigenous People's Film Society / Chisato Abe -- The Sápmi awards / Mattias Berglund -- South Saami Children's Choir : a successful project, despite the obstacles / Åsa Virdi Kroik -- Towards a respectful repatriation of stolen Ainu ancestral remains / Yuji Shimizu ; translated by Jeff Gayman -- Practices of efflorescence / Gerald Roche -- The yoke and the candy bowl: beliefs and emotions in South Sami revitalisation / Leena Huss and Sigrid Stångberg -- Ainu women in the past and now / Ryoko Tahara ; translated by Hiroshi Maruyama -- Heading towards the restoration and transmission of Ainu culture / Tsuda Nobuko ; translated by Hiroshi Maruyama -- Living a modern life in Hokkaidō as a young Ainu dancer / Mana Shinoda ; translated by Hiroshi Maruyama -- A quest for what we Ainu are / Shizue Ukaji ; translated by Hiroshi Maruyama -- A trip to the mountaintop / Jenny Virdi Kroik -- Everyday acts of resurgence and diasporic indigeneity among the Ainu of Tokyo / Kanako Uzawa -- Saami coffee culture / Chris Kolbu and Anne Wuolab -- Cultural revitalisation : 'feeding on the tools of the conquerors' : a Sami-American perspective / Chris Pesklo -- Sydisdans, a new traditional dance in Sapmi / Nils-Jonas Persson -- Conclusion / Gerald Roche.

Indigenous efflorescence refers to the surprising economic prosperity, demographic increase and cultural renaissance currently found amongst many Indigenous communities around the world. This book moves beyond a more familiar focus on 'revitalisation' to situate these developments within their broader political and economic contexts. The materials in this volume also examine the everyday practices and subjectivities of Indigenous efflorescence and how these exist in tension with ongoing colonisation of Indigenous lands, and the destabilising impacts of global neoliberal capitalism. Contributions to this volume include both research articles and shorter case studies, and are drawn from amongst the Ainu and Sami (Saami/Sámi) peoples (in Ainu Mosir in northern Japan, and Sapmi in northern Europe, respectively). This volume will be of use to scholars working on contemporary Indigenous issues, as well as to Indigenous peoples engaged in linguistic and cultural revitalisation, and other aspects of Indigenous efflorescence.