Edited by leading academic authorities from the fields of human geography and international relations, this is the first handbook to deal with resilience as a new conceptual approach to understanding and addressing problems. The collection highlights that resilience-thinking is increasingly transforming international policy-making and government and institutional practices.

1) Introduction1. Introduction [David Chandler and Jon Coaffee]2) Challenges2. The Etymology and Genealogy of a Contested Concept[Peter Rogers - Macquarie University]3. Resilience, Security and World Politics[Philippe Bourbeau - Cambridge University]4. Making Resilience Strange: Ontological Politics in a ‘Time of Crisis’[Samuel Randalls - University College London, and Stephanie Simon - University of Amsterdam]5. Why Resilience is Unappealing to Social Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations of the Scientific use of Resilience[Lennart Olsson, Anne Jerneck, Henrik Thoren, Johannes Persson and David O’Byrne]6. The Nature of Resilience[Chris Zebrowski - University of Loughborough]3) Uncertainty 7. The Problem of the Present: Reconciling Social Justice with Resilience Planning’s Future Orientation in the Transition Town movement[Charis Ford Morrison Boke - Cornell University]8. The Promise of Resilience[Claudia Aradau - Kings College London]9. The Digitization of Resilience[Mareile Kaufmann - PRIO]10. Resilience and the Inversion of Possibility and Reality[Jessica Schmidt - University of Duisburg-Essen4) Neoliberalism11. Resilience and Neoliberalism[David Chandler - University of Westminster]12. Resilience, Power and Money: Limitations and Prospects of Systems Ecology in Envisaging a Sustainable World Economy [Alf Hornborg - Lund University]13. Resilience, Governmentality and Neoliberalism[Jonathan Joseph - University of Sheffield]5) Environment14. Climate Change and Security: From Paradigmatic Resilience to Resilience Multiple[Delf Rothe - University of Hamburg]15. Resilience and the neoliberal counterrevolution: From ecologies of control to production of the common[Sara H. Nelson - University of Minnesota]16. Resilience of What to What: Evidence from Pastoral Contexts in East Africa and Central Asia[Chuan Liao - Cornell University, and Ding Fei - University of Minnesota]6) Urban Planning17. A Resilient Urban Planning Paradigm: Design, Governance, Adaption and Maladaptation[Jonathan Clarke - University of Warwick]18. Resilience and territorial cohesion: different origins, similar destination [Simin Davoudi]19. Resilience and the ‘business as usual’ paradox[Paul O’Hare Manchester Metropolitan University, Iain White - University of Waikato, and Angela Connelly - University of Manchester]7) Disaster Response 20. Realities of resilience: Reflecting on the value of a resilience approach in practice[C.W.J. de Milliano and J. Jurriens]21. Managing Disaster Risk and Resilience in the UK: Response vs. Prevention In Policy and Practice[Lee Bosher and Ksenia Chmutina – Loughborough University]22. ‘Bouncing back’ to Capitalism? Grassroots autonomous activism in shaping discourses of resilience and transformation following disaster.[Raven Cretney - Victoria University, and Sophie Bond - University of Otago]8) Insecurity23. The politics, practices and tensions of security-driven resilience[Jon Coaffee – University of Warwick, Pete Fussey - University of Essex]24. Resilience and Disaster Sites: The Disastrous Temporality of the ‘Recovery-to-Come’[Charlotte Heath-Kelly - University of Warwick)]25. Bowling with Terrorists: Securing Civic Resilience to Prevent Extremism in the UK[Jessica West - Balsillie School of International Affairs]26. The Resilient Subject[Brad Evans - University of Bristol, and Julian Reid - University of Lapland]9) International Development 27. Resilience and development among ultra-poor household in rural Ethiopia [Brian Thiede - Louisiana State University]28. Developing resilience: a retreat from grand planning[Søren Vester Haldrup and Frederik Rosén]29. Resilience and the post-colonial: hidden transcripts of resilience in Jamaican disaster management[Kevin Grove - Florida International University]10) Conclusion30. Conclusion: The Future of Resilience[Jon Coaffee and David Chandler]