Introduction: Shock chains and parallel shocks: Towards a social science of the recovery society

Any one shock is never isolated from other shocks and any one recovery process will be complicated by further related and unrelated shocks and their related recovery processes. This chapter highlights the interactions that occur between shocks that are experienced in parallel or simultaneously and those that occur linearly and take the form of...

Fragmented recoveries and proactive adaptability: New paradigm shifts, and theoretical directions to unpacking recovery processes and behavioural change

The nature of shocks and crisis is highly diverse; crises and shocks tend to conglomerate rather than occur as single events. People and places are affected differently and have distinct abilities and resources to respond, cope and recover. Key here are path-dependent socio-economic living conditions along with pre-existent intersectional...

The magic of ordinary rather than extraordinary resilience?: Higher education and longer-term pandemic impacts

COVID-19 initially closed universities forcing rapid adoption of online teaching. This chapter reflects on pandemic recovery in the context of higher education and explores some of the longer-term impacts that the pandemic has had on academic practice. Recovery is a complex and highly differentiated process and is founded upon resilience that is...

Artificial intelligence and post-pandemic recovery

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become one of the most dicussed topics of today and are being used to support solving complex problems. AI has given opportunities for efficiency, control, safety while raising issues around trust, optimism and responsibility. One of the prominent features of AI resides in the digitalization of the built...

Recovery from the pandemic: Planning the reterritorialisation of agricultural activities

This chapter discusses planning the reterritorialisation of agricultural activities as an avenue of the Covid-19 pandemic recovery. Reterritorialisation indicates local food being targeted to local inhabitants instead of the global market. We argue that the pandemic has accelerated the reterritorialisation process. Supply chain actors actively...

A year into the pandemic: shifts, improvisations and impacts for places, people and policy

The catalyst for this book emerged in late 2019 with the first reports of a<br/>‘mystery pneumonia’ taking hold in the Chinese city of Wuhan (Horton,<br/>2020). This virus was confirmed by authorities as a new type of Severe Acute<br/>Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (SARS) and given the acronym COVID-19<br/>(‘co’ for corona, ‘vi’ for virus and ...

The case of Mobility as a Service: A critical reflection on challenges for urban transport and mobility governance

This chapter provides a reflective critique of Mobility as a Service (MaaS), an emerging development seeking a role within the Smart Mobility paradigm. We assess a range of its future implications for urban policymakers in terms of governance and sustainability (i.e., social and environmental impacts). We begin by describing the origins of the...