Decision makers, practitioners and community members need to assess the disaster
resilience of their communities and to understand better the risks they face from natural …

Urban areas are exposed to high disaster risks and other shocks and stresses. The call for
risk reduction has prevailed in global policies, but risk creation has outpaced the efforts of …

Resilience has experienced exponential growth in scholarship and practice over the past
several decades. We conduct a meta-analysis of recent review papers on resilience from all …

ABSTRACT Between March and May, Spain was one of the hardest-hit European countries
by the COVID-19 pandemic and registered one of the highest death rates in the world …

Sea level rise (SLR) poses increasing flood risks to coastal cities and infrastructure. We
propose a general framework of engineering resilience for infrastructure systems in the …

Sustainability science seeks to extend scientific investigation into domains characterized by
a distinct problem-solving agenda, physical and social complexity, and complex moral and …

Purpose This paper aims to explore the concept of resilience set within a family business
context and considers how familiness and the nature of noneconomic factors, such as …

The paper analyses the varieties of smart urbanism to be found in the contemporary urban
landscape in the UK. In so doing, it builds on and extends two currently dominant sets of …

This paper aims to contribute to the ongoing conceptual development and practical pursuit
of resilience, the ability to absorb and respond to shocks, in an agricultural and climate …

The transformation of critical infrastructure such as energy systems toward sustainability
imposes a multitude of challenges that are social-technical in nature and require …