DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONCEPT OF URBAN RESILIENCE: ROLE AND PERSPECTIVES IN GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCE

Abstract

The article explores the relevance of the concept of resilience for complex systems against the background of the demand for increased resilience in the face of environmental, socio-economic and political uncertainty and risk. It also analyzes why this issue is attracting the attention of scholars and decision-makers across disciplines, sectors and scales. The purpose of this publication is to structure contemporary scientific ideas about resilience, as well as to define the role of geography and its methods as effective tools for researching the resilience of territorial systems. The following methods were used for a comprehensive analysis of the concept: structural-logical, comparison, induction and deduction, historical-descriptive. A comparative analysis of current scientific works was conducted to identify common and differing approaches to defining the concept of resilience. This publication attempts to structure contemporary scientific ideas about the resilience of complex systems and to determine the role of geography as a science, particularly socio-geographic research, as effective tools for in-depth study of this phenomenon. The paper also suggests theoretical and practical perspectives and directions for future research. The article concludes by highlighting the concept of resilience from a geographical point of view, as well as reflecting on the future prospects of the concept in various scientific fields. It can be concluded that resilience is the ability of a territorial system to prevent, withstand, and adapt to both anthropogenic and natural hazards influenced by exogenous and endogenous factors. Such factors can be natural, cultural, historical, socio-economic, political features, etc. In summary, it can be stated that there is currently no universally accepted approach in world science that offers a specific algorithm to enhance the resilience of a certain system. It appears that there should be a consensus on the priority measures that should be continuously worked on and improved.