Urban resilience (UR) is a central concept in enabling cities to be prepared for disasters and
unexpected events caused by climate change-induced extreme weather conditions. The …

Despite growing interest in urban resilience, there is a significant gap between discourse
and the capacity to develop resilience in practice. This sco** review assembles and …

Urban agglomerations are seen as a new spatial pattern to address the problems
encountered in urban development, with significant practical implications for enhancing the …

Cities are complex systems, weaving together thousands of economic, social, institutional
and environmental threads that powerfully affect individual and societal well-being. Across …

This paper describes how urban resilience governance is structured and coordinated in 20
North American cities (19 US and one Canadian) based on interviews with city officials. This …

Based on the data of 281 cities in China from 2011 to 2018, this paper explores the
spatiotemporal evolution pattern of urban resilience and the college scale, and investigates …

The issue of multirisk is coming under increasing scrutiny in the scientific literature and is of
great concern for governments. Multirisk embraces different meanings: domino and cascade …

Snow avalanches are recurring natural hazards that affect the population and infrastructure
in mountainous regions, such as in the recent avalanche winters of 2018 and 2019, when …

Occurrences of concurrent extreme atmospheric hazards represent a significant area of
uncertainty for organizations involved in disaster mitigation and risk management …

Multi-risk environments are characterized by domino effects that often amplify the overall
risk. Those include chains of hazardous events and increasing vulnerability, among other …