ABSTRACT
Chapter 12 concludes the discussion with final comments. Titled “Towards ‘Just’ Resilience,” it attempts to contribute to the global discourse on resilience, drawing from classical ideas on justice and social contract. In the endeavour to draw the contours of “just” resilience, this chapter highlights the crucial role of academic institutions in bridging the gap between resilience thinking and practice. It discusses how international cooperation on capacity building in higher education, like the above-mentioned projects BINuCom, SES, and BReCom that formed the basis of this book, can enable strong academic and community partnerships for co-creation of knowledge, its dissemination, and awareness generation on this subject in different parts of the world. The chapter constructs a Resilience Equity Index drawing from the Equity Index discussed in The Divided City (Singh & Sethi, 2018) and the Resilience Index discussed in Resilience and Southern Urbanism (2022).
