RESILIENCE APPROACH IN PUBLIC POLICIES. A multidisciplinary framework to study the reactive, adaptive and transformative capacities of individuals and of legal and socio-economic systems.

The book contains a broad collect of contributions on the different meanings and applications of the concept of resilience, trying to identify the techniques and the methodologies of analysis most adequate to measure the phenomenon and identify its determinants, the possible tools for prevention and public policy measures to strengthen elasticity and adaptability of individuals and social relations among them, as well as of urban systems, territorial and environmental to adversity created by the nature (catastrophic events caused by climate change, earthquakes, etc.), the economic environment (economic or financial crises, periods of recession, etc.) and social context (massive affluence of immigrants, urban and social changes determined by phenomena of shrinking populations and houses, etc.). The papers collected in the book show the first results of a research project on "Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability. Development, Assessment and Implementation of Public Policies for Adaptive Governance of Complexity", coordinated by Prof. Salvatore Villani from the University of Naples Federico II. The research project carried out with the collaboration of experts and teachers coming from Italian Universities (University of Naples Federico II, UPM – International University of Milan, University of Sannio and University of Teramo) and from the Universities of Exeter, Görlitz, Kobe and Miami.