Resilience Building in Small and Medium-Sized Cities: Pathway Innovation Based on Existing Governance Resources

Abstract

Due to limited resources and funds, small and medium-sized cities cannot build high-investment resilience in the same way as large cities. Now one of the problems we need to solve is how to build an affordable resilience network. According to the theory of collaborative governance, this paper will investigate how the local governments of small and medium-sized cities can make better use of their current governance resources to improve risk resilience. However, in actual operation, there are often problems such as the absence of key actors, resource fragmentation and a lack of collaborative rules; together they constitute "collaborative failure", and thus the existing stock of resources cannot be turned into resilience efficiency. The Structure of the three-dimensional collaborative governance mechanism in this paper is "stakeholder mobilisation, resource sharing and rule guarantee", and we will analyze the positions of all parties, the three-dimensional allocation path for resources, and the core function of institutional guarantees to provide theoretical support and practical suggestions for small and medium-sized cities in building resilience.