THE CONCEPTS OF URBAN SYSTEM RESILIENCE TO NATURAL DISASTERS

Abstract

 Recently, in the Japanese field of natural disaster risk management, the term “resilience” is frequently used relating to city's recovery from natural disaster damage. The concept of resilience in the field of natural disaster risk management has been developed under the influence of the studies on vulnerability to natural disaster and resilience of ecological/socio-ecological system.
 This paper reviews the researches of vulnerability and resilience in the field of natural disaster risk management and ecological/socio-ecological system in order to identify and analyze the relation between vulnerability and resilience and the development of these concepts. Based on the review, the concepts of urban system resilience are classified into two definitions: resilience as stability and one as adaptable regenerative ability. Also, the prospect of future research is suggested to establish the framework of urban system resilience to natural disasters.