Climate change is an urgent challenge in urban planning. Weather extremes and resulting
impacts such as heat waves and flash floods are already influencing the quality of life in …

Populations and assets, in African cities, small and large, are among the most vulnerable to
disaster risk globally. Climate change and demographic shifts add urgency and uncertainty …

This paper presents the Semi-empirical URban canopY parametrization (SURY) v1. 0, which
bridges the gap between bulk urban land-surface schemes and explicit-canyon schemes …

Urban areas continue to be the center of action for many countries due to their contribution
to economic development. Many urban areas, through the urbanization process, have …

Urban green infrastructure (GI) has been promoted as an approach to respond to major
urban environmental and social challenges such as reducing the ecological footprint …

Urban areas are increasingly at risk from climate change, with negative impacts predicted for
human health, the economy and ecosystems,. These risks require responses from cities to …

As human activity and environmental change come to be increasingly recognized as
intertwined phenomena on a rapidly urbanizing planet, the field of urban ecology has risen …

Coastal areas are urbanizing at unprecedented rates, particularly in low-and middle-income
countries. Combinations of long-standing and emerging problems in these urban areas …

Cities are key players in climate change adaptation and mitigation due to a spatial
concentration of assets, people and economic activities. They are thus contributing to and …

Social vulnerability indicators are a valuable tool for understanding which population groups
are more vulnerable to experiencing negative impacts from disasters, and where these …