Urban informal settlements are rapidly expanding in countries around the world. This is due partly to high birth rates, but also because of growing in-migration driven by climate change …
J Fransen, B Hati, HK Simon… - Sustainable …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Adaptive governance describes the purposeful collective actions to resist, adapt, or transform when faced with shocks. As governments are reluctant to intervene in informal …
C Wang, H Xu, A Lin - Indoor and Built Environment, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
As the fundamental unit of urban governance, communities are the grassroots for responding to and facing disasters directly, and their resilience to disaster risks has …
The rapid development of urbanization has brought a series of challenges to cities, including a shortage of resources, environmental pollution, social inequality and escalating disaster …
Urban in-migration, high birth rates and unchecked development are driving the continued growth of African cities. Much of this urbanization occurs in informal settlements, where …
Today, the term resilience is commonplace in the global discourse. Cities, states, and countries have pursued recovery initiatives that aim not only to bounce back from downturns …
P Ariza-Montobbio, A Carrión… - Urban Resilience to the …, 2022 - Springer
Urban resilience is gaining attention as an integral approach to face climate change and other social-ecological stresses faced by cities. These shocking events, unevenly distributed …
B Scozzi, R Pellegrino, A de Trizio… - … for Sustainability and …, 2024 - library.oapen.org
Urban Resilience refers to the ability of a city to absorb, adapt and transform in the face of a disturbance. Such a concept is increasing in importance as the continuous growth of cities …