Add to ORKGThe first section in this issue seeks to analyze the key risks and challenges, primarily environmental, facing urban areas and examine the consequences these challenges may have on their development. The notion of the resilient city has developed essentially since the end of the Second World War. Risk has become a central component of modern societies, with the advent of the risk society as imagined by Ulrich Beck in the 1980s. While the post-war period and subsequent Cold War saw the emerge..
The climate crisis is an unprecedented threat. We urgently need to design our infrastructure, econom...
How can we achieve urban resilience? As climate risk increases, so does the manifestation of vulnera...
The current unfolding of the climate emergency urges cities to take action and lead the transition t...
Resilience is an issue of increasing importance to city managers and policymakers. The idea first em...
The second section looks at actions cities can take to increase their resilience in the face of shoc...
The number of megacities worldwide is rapidly increasing and contemporary cities are also expanding ...
As remarked in the presentation of the special issue of the A|Z Journal - Cities at risk - the incre...
This volume provides a comprehensive discussion and overview of urban resilience, including socio-ec...
The literature on disaster risk and its reduction in Africa’s urban centres remains limited, despite...
The effects of climate-related disasters are often exacerbated in cities due to interactions with ur...
Greater population density coupled with our ever more inter-related lives – including trade issues –...
In risk management, the interventions relied on building large infrastructures (e.g. dams and dikes)...
This Special Issue brings together recent research findings related to urban resilience, in particul...
The relationship between disaster resilience and sustainability in the context of urban risk has gai...
The nature of urban risk and disasters is changing. For the first time in human history, more people...
The climate crisis is an unprecedented threat. We urgently need to design our infrastructure, econom...
How can we achieve urban resilience? As climate risk increases, so does the manifestation of vulnera...
The current unfolding of the climate emergency urges cities to take action and lead the transition t...
Resilience is an issue of increasing importance to city managers and policymakers. The idea first em...
The second section looks at actions cities can take to increase their resilience in the face of shoc...
The number of megacities worldwide is rapidly increasing and contemporary cities are also expanding ...
As remarked in the presentation of the special issue of the A|Z Journal - Cities at risk - the incre...
This volume provides a comprehensive discussion and overview of urban resilience, including socio-ec...
The literature on disaster risk and its reduction in Africa’s urban centres remains limited, despite...
The effects of climate-related disasters are often exacerbated in cities due to interactions with ur...
Greater population density coupled with our ever more inter-related lives – including trade issues –...
In risk management, the interventions relied on building large infrastructures (e.g. dams and dikes)...
This Special Issue brings together recent research findings related to urban resilience, in particul...
The relationship between disaster resilience and sustainability in the context of urban risk has gai...
The nature of urban risk and disasters is changing. For the first time in human history, more people...
The climate crisis is an unprecedented threat. We urgently need to design our infrastructure, econom...
How can we achieve urban resilience? As climate risk increases, so does the manifestation of vulnera...
The current unfolding of the climate emergency urges cities to take action and lead the transition t...