De la vulnerabilidad a la resiliencia. Escenarios de innovación para comunidades seguras en ciudades seguras

The increase in the intensity and frequency of flooding in recent years require new methods and tools to deal with this change. New approaches must be developed to ensure the safety of cities and settled communities from flood events. To respond and adapt to these challenges, it is necessary to develop resilience and risk awareness by the communities. In this paper, resilience is assumed as a paradigm within the project for the construction / transformation of the built environment. Systemic considerations are developed for a new design and spatial culture, in relation to the most recent instances of quality and safety, and, finally, is highlighted the fundamental role of the social component in determining priorities and security issues for each specific context. Physical and social environment are characterized, therefore, as an inseparable dyad for any action aimed at strengthening the resilience and safety of the environment built. In the implementation process of the resilience of an urban system, two closely interrelated areas are identified: on one hand the community capability of implementing organizational-procedural adaptability; on the other, the physical space and the natural dimension, as a place of construction of the technological-spatial convertibility, and the ecological and environmental responsiveness. Of all the conditions to ensure adequate levels of connection and correlation with ecological factors, topological, social and technological developments of the built environment, the essay develops those related to risk communication.