Resilience practices observatory project: emerging phenomena and lessons earned

The chapter presents the Resilience Practices Observatory (RPO) project emphasizing the research approach’s dynamic process. Section 5.1 introduces the RPO project, the aims, and the trajectories of activities developed in four years of activity. Section 5.2 focuses on the aspects of coproduction developed with specific attention to the Resilience Practices Forums as tools to promote the role of community-led practices in the transition process of territorial sustainability and the hybridization and contamination among different action domains of resilience practices and different spheres of knowledge and action (academic and research, associations and actions, institution and public, private sectors’ initiatives). Section 5.3 presents an overview of the practices engaged in the RPO project introducing the databases developed and describing the geographies, the governance models and processes, the urgencies/lever and issues of action, and the tools domains characterizing the about 150 resilience practices engaged in the RPO project.