Resilience Practices Observatory project: synergies for stabilization and upscaling

This chapter outlines the fundamental considerations that emerged after 5 years of the Resilience Practices Observatory (RPO) project. The RPO engaged more than 100 different community-led practices acting to improve local resilience capacities and about 30 applied research and institutional-led initiatives. The success in engaging the practices in the RPO activities demonstrated the urgency and need for a shared space of networking, dialog, and learning among resilience practices. RPO provided a shared space and framework to resilience practices supporting the visibility and the exchange sharing experiences and learning, a structured place to rethink their experience, and a space to understand the role not locally but as process and contribution. This chapter introduces principal barriers in resilience practices implementation and discusses the four emerging core aspects enabling the practices stabilization and upscaling, improving the contribution to large-scale transition toward sustainable and resilient territorial systems. The capacity improvement, the knowledge and awareness dissemination and integration, the networking and multilevel innovative governance models, and economic aspects are discussed, presenting both the emerging characteristics from the RPO practices analyzed and providing perspectives for practices contribution and benefits fostering. © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.