Over the last decade, a growing body of literature has emerged which is concerned with the
question of what form a promising concept of social resilience might take. In this article we …

There is growing demand among stakeholders across public and private institutions for
spatially-explicit information regarding vulnerability to climate change at the local scale …

Human security will be progressively threatened as the climate changes (robust evidence,
high agreement). Human insecurity almost never has single causes, but instead emerges …

Indicators of natural disaster resilience are factors that impact the ability to cope with and
adapt to a natural disaster and climate change events. They can either contribute to or …

Establishing protected areas constitutes one of the main strategies for the conservation of
marine and coastal ecosystems. Increasing risks associated with environmental change …

Climate change poses significant challenges to coastal cities. Local governments around
the world are using various strategies to address sea level rise and coastal flooding. Most of …

This report, the first of three, reviews methods and methodological approaches, qualitative
and quantitative. In an effort to look beyond the qualitative-quantitative divide, two …

Hazard mitigation plans (HMPs) play a critical role in the reduction of societal loss from
natural and human-caused hazards and disasters. The occurrence of hazardous events …

Municipal parks and recreation departments (PRDs) have a crucial responsibility for
stewarding urban and peri-urban ecology given they manage the majority of urban green …

In this paper, we seek to better understand the temporal and spatial aspects of climatic
stress on local resource production systems and resource-use behaviors by including the …