Open AccessResilient Leaders for Resilient Cities
Author(s) -
Cheick Fousseni Diaby,
Christophe Roux-Dufort
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/588/5/052056
Subject(s) - variety (cybernetics) , sensibility , reflexivity , resilience (materials science) , sociology , psychological resilience , epistemology , knowledge management , business , psychology , engineering ethics , cognitive science , political science , computer science , social psychology , engineering , artificial intelligence , social science , philosophy , physics , law , thermodynamics
This theoretical paper takes an aesthetic view of leadership to investigate the leadership needed to make cities more resilient. It sees an urban system as a complex, evolving entity constantly crossed by a variety of inflows and outflows connecting it to other systems, while its constituent elements are in interaction between themselves. Three fundamental dispositions in the aesthetic literature, sensibility , reflexivity and wisdom, seem crucial to ensure that leaders anticipate and cope with a variety of shocks, taking advantage of the opportunities to transform and learn. These dispositions are found fundamental to urban resilience. The paper also discusses the implications for preparation and learning.