Resilience governance: a concepts analysis and research synthesis

Abstract The current era of urbanization, globalization, and climate change is a challenge in urban planning and development in the future. There is still a lack of literature that offers various conceptual frameworks for stakeholders and city governance actors in dealing with urban threats. Therefore, this study aims to fill this research gap to encourage resilient and sustainable governance to face future challenges and threats. This research provides scientific guidelines and recommendations for developing governance studies to realize urban resilience. The method of this study is a systematic literature review and meta-analysis through the PRISMA protocol using literature from 2005 to 2023. The findings of this study indicate that governance approaches must pay attention to various dimensions of resilience such as: (1) social, ecological, economic, institutional, and infrastructure. This study argues that government resilience needs to be built based on key elements of sustainability such as: (1) economic prosperity; (2) Social justice; and (3) Environmental sustainability. This study identifies key characteristics of resilience governance as Reflective, Robust, Integrated, Resourceful, Flexible, Redundant, and Inclusive. This urban resilience governance design can help encourage urban resilience and sustainability by increasing the agility of urban ecosystems, preventing future disturbances and threats, reversing crises, and creating sustainability based on prosperity, justice, and sustainability. These findings will be useful in understanding the dynamics of urban vulnerability and resilience as well as measuring and managing strategies based on the indicators developed.