Abstract Maps and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are widely used to better
understand and manage risks in modern cities. While methods for mapping hazard …

Smart city is originally aimed at dealing with various urban problems due to rapid
urbanization, like energy shortage, congestion, and environmental pollution. The Chinese …

Purpose Urban communities can be faced with many destructive events that can disrupt the
daily functioning of activities and livelihood of people living in the communities. In this …

The increasing flood disasters have led to serious losses and damage around the world,
especially in the developing countries. Nanjing, China, has suffered from the frequent urban …

Resilience has been widely used as a concept to analyse, understand, and improve cities'
coping capacities to disasters. However, it is still a challenge to operationalise and quantify …

Highlights•A novel Productive Architectural Surface System (PASS) is proposed.•Productive
double-skin facade (PDSF) was constructed based on PASS.•The daylighting performance …

As frontline health caregivers, nurses must be adequately prepared to respond effectively to
disasters. Therefore, it is necessary to assess nurses' disaster management capacity to …

Rapid urbanization has brought the rampant sprawl of cities and various urban diseases
have been emerging. How to effectively understand the health status of a city and diagnose …

Climate change-related extreme events such as floods have and will continue to present a
great challenge to disaster risk management. There is a pressing need to develop a robust …

Urban road traffic network (URTN) plays an important role in city operation, while it is also
suffered a lot from the urban flood disasters which caused negative impacts frequently, like …