Identifying Constraints to Increase the Resilience of Cities: A Case Study of the City of Porto Alegre

Abstract This study applies the BRIC – Baseline Resilience Indicator for Communities – as a case study to the city of Porto Alegre. The purpose of quantifying resilience is to allow the identification of the constraints of that city considering its 17 participatory budgeting regions to increase resilience over time. Utilizing five TOC focusing steps is suggested so that the identified constraints may be exploited and “broken” effectively. At the end, three significant constraints were identified, which lead to the conclusion that there is room for improvement in the city and in the adequacy of the tool regarding the proposed case, enabling further research opportunities.

[1]  S. Cutter,et al.  Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management Disaster Resilience Indicators for Benchmarking Baseline Conditions , 2011 .

[2]  Lila Singh-Peterson,et al.  Translation and evaluation of the Baseline Resilience Indicators for Communities on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland Australia , 2014 .

[3]  W. Gibb Dyer,et al.  Better Stories, Not Better Constructs, To Generate Better Theory: A Rejoinder to Eisenhardt , 1991 .

[4]  Unisdr.  Disaster Resilience Scorecard for Cities , 2017 .

[5]  Laurent Peyras,et al.  Developing a functional model for cities impacted by a natural hazard: application to a city affected by flooding , 2015 .

[6]  John Davies,et al.  The theory of constraints thinking processes: retrospect and prospect , 2008 .

[7]  I. Kelman,et al.  Challenges and opportunities for building urban resilience , 2014 .

[8]  Kevin D. Ash,et al.  The geographies of community disaster resilience , 2014 .

[9]  Samir Dani,et al.  Resilience: the concept, a literature review and future directions , 2011 .

[10]  F. Norris,et al.  Community Resilience as a Metaphor, Theory, Set of Capacities, and Strategy for Disaster Readiness , 2008, American journal of community psychology.

[11]  G. Guarini,et al.  An Unbalance Adjustment Method for Development Indicators , 2013 .

[12]  David Woods,et al.  Resilience Engineering: Concepts and Precepts , 2006 .

[13]  Adriano Proença,et al.  Design Science Research: método de pesquisa para a engenharia de produção , 2013 .

[14]  Alexander J. Felson,et al.  Ecological resilience and resilient cities , 2014 .

[15]  Courtney M. Thompson,et al.  Spatial and temporal quantification of resilience at the community scale , 2013 .

[16]  Kevin C. Desouza,et al.  Designing, planning, and managing resilient cities: A conceptual framework , 2013 .

[17]  R. Čiegis,et al.  Theory of Constraints and its Usage to Evaluate the Governmental Support for , 2006 .

[18]  S. Galea,et al.  Measuring Capacities for Community Resilience , 2010 .

[19]  C. Pahl-Wostl,et al.  Social Learning and Water Resources Management , 2007 .

[20]  Jonathan Michie,et al.  Regional resilience: theoretical and empirical perspectives , 2010 .

[21]  Carl A Gibson,et al.  A 'conceptual models' approach to organisational resilience , 2010 .

[22]  Marc Bellette.  Opinion: Community Bushfire Safety and Possible Future Steps for Research Led Policy , 2010 .

[23]  R. Hudson.  Resilient Regions in an Uncertain World: Wishful Thinking or a Practical Reality? , 2010 .

[24]  W. Robbins.  PROCESS IMPROVEMENT IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR: A Case for the Theory of Constraints , 2011 .

[25]  A. Masten.  Ordinary magic. Resilience processes in development. , 2001, The American psychologist.

[26]  Lawrence J. Vale.  The politics of resilient cities: whose resilience and whose city? , 2014 .

[27]  Eliyahu M. Goldratt,et al.  Computerized shop floor scheduling , 1988 .

[28]  Pieter J. Pretorius.  Introducing in-between decision points to TOC’s five focusing steps , 2014 .

[29]  D. Chandler.  The Rise of Resilience , 2017 .

[30]  Hongyi Sun,et al.  Structuring papers for success: Making your paper more like a high impact publication than a desk reject , 2014 .

[31]  Suzanne Wilkinson,et al.  Organisational resilience: Researching the reality of New Zealand organisations. , 2008, Journal of business continuity & emergency planning.

[32]  A. Arnall.  Resilience as transformative capacity: Exploring the quadripartite cycle of structuration in a Mozambican resettlement programme , 2015 .

[33]  Lindsey R. Barnes,et al.  A place-based model for understanding community resilience to natural disasters , 2008 .

[34]  Nadine Marshall,et al.  Conceptualizing and operationalizing social resilience within commercial fisheries in northern Australia , 2007 .

[35]  Hans Dieleman,et al.  Organizational learning for resilient cities, through realizing eco-cultural innovations , 2013 .

[36]  Christine Nadel,et al.  Case Study Research Design And Methods , 2016 .

[37]  Lloyd J. Taylor,et al.  Applying the Theory of Constraints to a Public Safety Hiring Process , 2003 .

[38]  Ying-Chyi Chou,et al.  Identifying inventory problems in the aerospace industry using the theory of constraints , 2012 .

[39]  David D. Woods,et al.  Four concepts for resilience and the implications for the future of resilience engineering , 2015, Reliab. Eng. Syst. Saf..

[40]  L. Ellram.  THE USE OF THE CASE STUDY METHOD IN LOGISTICS RESEARCH , 1996 .