Climate pressures contribute to the complexity of urban systems that have mul- tiple functions and interacting components. The concept of resilience introduces a holistic approach, embracing both the physical environmental (PE) and thesocio-economic (SE) components of cities. ‘Resilience thinking’ involves overcoming fragmentation in risk management, by creating synergies among stakeholders. It is a challenge that illustrates the importance of the ‘social construction of reality’: a specific dimension of the city that corresponds to the perceptions and attitudes of the urban community regarding an issue or solution.This thesis contributes to the current need to forge this link between the PE and SE components when studying climate-related r...