Urbanization and the growth of populations in cities have led to increased exposure and vulnerability to social and environmental changes, such as natural disasters like floods and climate change uncertainties creating complex social dynamics. Cities as tourist destinations are especially susceptible to such disruptions, as their infrastructure and overall aesthetic contribute significantly to their value, ensuring employment opportunities and public well-being. Consequently, discussions have arisen about the need for cities and communities to adopt resilience thinking in order to prepare for potential stresses and shocks. Although there are established frameworks for creating inclusive resilience strategies that encourage community engagement and participation, limited literature exists on how integrated urban resilience thinking is in transdisciplinary efforts for sustainable urban development. Therefore, this paper explores how participation is integrated in resilience building efforts in urban areas studying the case of Dresden, Germany. It starts with a description of the underlying concepts, followed by a classification of the investigation case laying out the legal and political framework focusing on the concepts of participation, and co-creation in the context of participatory urban resilience. The study further investigates how citizen participation is discussed and implemented in this field by analyzing nine expert interviews. The findings suggest that participatory approaches hold significant potential for improving multistakeholder cooperation, promoting social innovation, and building resilience capacities. However, several systemic challenges are uncovered which would require structural reforms to enable a resilient urban development for Dresden as a destination and its citizens.

The content of this thesis is the analysis of the Integrated Urban Development Plans in the Czech Republic, which is then particulary demonstrated on the example of Ustí nad Labem. The regional capital has now initiated the creation of three Integrated Urban Development Plans, two of them have a zone character -- IUDP Center and IUDP Nestemice -- Mojzir settlement, and one with a thematic orientation on the transportation -- IUDP Mobility. In the theoretical part is the urban dimension of Cohesion Policy discussed, followed by its form and metodology in the Czech Republic. The specific IUDPs of Usti nad Labem are subsequently summarized in the practical part which is focused on the application of the documents, the evaluation of the actual interconnection of projects and find new starting points for the next programming period

Orientador: Prof. Dr. Jeroen Johannes Klink / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do ABC, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Planejamento e Gestão do Território, São Bernardo do Campo, 2018. / A Região Metropolitana de São Paulo é o principal polo de riqueza nacional. Por ela passam os grandes fluxos de capital, de pessoas e de informações do Brasil, em uma rede complexa de bens e serviços. Face às peculiaridades e à escala dos problemas enfrentados pela RMSP, coloca-se a questão da governança em uma região metropolitana tão grande e tão complexa. Em efeito, uma vez que a RMSP não é um ente da federação e, portanto, não possui um governo único e dedicado exclusivamente para sua gestão, surge a necessidade de articulação entre os atores governamentais que têm atribuições e competências sobre seu território. As questões relacionadas aos modelos e formatos institucionais das regiões metropolitanas vêm sendo objeto de debate há décadas, tanto no mundo acadêmico quanto entre os profissionais e gestores que lidam diariamente com os desafios impostos pela gestão destes territórios. Por isso alguns conceitos e ferramentas de análise são fundamentais para a compreensão do fenômeno metropolitano. Ao mesmo tempo, a evolução histórico-legal da governança metropolitana no Brasil e em São Paulo nas últimas décadas mostra uma alternância entre períodos de maior e menor centralização e contribui para o entendimento do cenário atual. Com a aprovação do Estatuto da Metrópole (EM), no início de 2015, a imposição legal ao governo do estado e aos municípios da elaboração conjunta de um Plano de Desenvolvimento Urbano Integrado (PDUI), com a participação da sociedade civil, abrese uma nova fase para a governança metropolitana brasileira e da RMSP. Este processo ainda em curso explicita alguns conflitos e abre novas possibilidades de articulação entre os entes federativos envolvidos. / The Metropolitan Region of São Paulo (MRSP) is the main centre of national wealth in Brazil. Great flows of capital, people and information, pass through it in a complex network of goods and services. In view of the singularities and scale of the problems faced by the MRSP, the question of governance in such a large and complex metropolitan region is raised. In fact, as the MRSP is not an entity of the federation and therefore does not have a government structure exclusively dedicated to its management, there is a need of articulation among the governmental actors that have attributions and responsibilities over the same territory. Issues related to the institutional models and formats of the metropolitan regions have been the subject of debate for decades, both in the academic world and among professionals and managers who deal daily with the challenges imposed by the management of these territories. For this reason, some concepts and tools of analysis are fundamental for the understanding of the metropolitan phenomenon. At the same time, the historical-legal evolution of metropolitan governance in Brazil and São Paulo in the last decades shows an alternation between periods of greater and lesser centralization and contributes to better understand the current scenario. A new phase of metropolitan governance has been opened up for Brazil and the MRSP with the approval of the Metropolis Statute, in early 2015, and the legal obligation of the joint elaboration of an Integrated Urban Development Plan, with the participation of civil society. This process, which is still underway, has made explicit some conflicts and has created new possibilities for articulation for the federative entities involved.