Title: Peer reviews for making cities resilient

Authors: Jennifer Bealt; Duncan Shaw; Chris M. Smith; Manuel López-Ibáñez

Addresses: Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, Booth Street West, Manchester, M15 6PB, UK ORCID – 0000-0001-9662-5520 ' Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, Booth Street West, Manchester, M15 6PB, UK ORCID – 0000-0002-8833-0527 ' Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, Booth Street West, Manchester, M15 6PB, UK ORCID – 0000-0001-8016-243 ' Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, Booth Street West, Manchester, M15 6PB, UK ORCID – 0000-0001-9974-1295

Abstract: Peer reviews are a unique governance tool that use expertise from one city or country to assess and strengthen the capabilities of another. Peer review tools are gaining momentum in disaster management and remain an important but understudied topic in risk governance. Methodologies to conduct a peer review are still in their infancy. To enhance these, a systematic literature review (SLR) of academic and non-academic literature was conducted on city resilience peer reviews. Thirty-three attributes of resilience are identified, which provides useful insights into how research and practice can inform risk governance, and utilise peer reviews, to drive meaningful change. Moreover, it situates the challenges associated with resilience building tools within risk governance to support the development of interdisciplinary perspectives for integrated city resilience frameworks. Results of this research have been used to develop a peer review methodology and an international standard on conducting peer reviews for disaster risk reduction.

Keywords: city resilience; city peer review; disaster risk governance.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEM.2019.104201

International Journal of Emergency Management, 2019 Vol.15 No.4, pp.334 - 359

Received: 23 Apr 2019
Accepted: 24 Aug 2019
Published online: 20 Dec 2019 *

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