Nature-based approaches to managing climate change impacts in cities

SE Hobbie, NB Grimm - Philosophical Transactions of the …, 2020‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Managing and adapting to climate change in urban areas will become increasingly
important as urban populations grow, especially because unique features of cities amplify …

Urban change as an untapped opportunity for climate adaptation

M Egerer, D Haase, T McPhearson… - Npj Urban …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Urban social–ecological–technological systems (SETS) are dynamic and respond to climate
pressures. Change involves alterations to land and resource management, social …

[PDF][PDF] Cities, settlements and key infrastructure

D Dodman, B Hayward, M Pelling, V Castán Broto… - 2023‏ - escholarship.org
In all cities and urban areas, the risk faced by people and assets from hazards associated
with climate change has increased (high confidence1). Urban areas are now home to 4.2 …

The social construction of systemic risk: towards an actionable framework for risk governance

A Maskrey, G Jain, A Lavell - Disaster Prevention and Management …, 2023‏ - emerald.com
Purpose This paper explores the building blocks of risk governance systems that are
equipped to manage systemic risk in the 21st century. Whilst approaches to risk governance …

[HTML][HTML] Resilience of critical infrastructure systems: a systematic literature review of measurement frameworks

M Sathurshan, A Saja, J Thamboo, M Haraguchi… - Infrastructures, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Critical infrastructures such as transportation, power, telecommunication, water supply, and
hospitals play a vital role in effectively managing post-disaster responses. The resilience of …

[HTML][HTML] Climate adaptation measures for enhancing urban resilience

SMHS Rezvani, NM de Almeida, MJ Falcão - Buildings, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Climate change threatens urban areas globally. Enhancing resilience is crucial, yet the
comprehensive clustering of practical climate adaptation measures for use in construction …

Kee** infrastructure reliable under climate uncertainty

MV Chester, BS Underwood, C Samaras - Nature Climate Change, 2020‏ - nature.com
Characterizing infrastructure vulnerability to climate change is essential given the long asset
lives, criticality of services delivered and high costs of upgrading and maintaining these …

NPCC4: Climate change and New York City's flood risk

B Rosenzweig, FA Montalto, P Orton, J Kaatz, N Maher… - 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
This chapter of the New York City Panel on Climate Change 4 (NPCC4) report provides a
comprehensive description of the different types of flood hazards (pluvial, fluvial, coastal …

Infrastructure resilience to navigate increasingly uncertain and complex conditions in the Anthropocene

M Chester, BS Underwood, B Allenby, M Garcia… - Npj Urban …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Infrastructure are at the center of three trends: accelerating human activities, increasing
uncertainty in social, technological, and climatological factors, and increasing complexity of …

Leveraging SETS resilience capabilities for safe-to-fail infrastructure under climate change

Y Kim, T Carvalhaes, A Helmrich, S Markolf… - Current Opinion in …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Highlights•Infrastructure transformation necessitates a recognition of social, ecological, and
technological systems (SETS) dynamics.•SETS resilience approaches challenge the …