Resilience thinking in relation to the environment has emerged as a lens of inquiry that
serves a platform for interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration. Resilience is about …

Despite growing interest in urban resilience, there is a significant gap between discourse
and the capacity to develop resilience in practice. This scoping review assembles and …

Cities need to build on their resilience to cope with a broad range of natural and manmade
hazards that threaten their competitiveness, livability, and functionality. Recognizing this …

Urban resilience is a new path for the sustainable development of cities in the future.
However, recognizing and quantifying urban resilience is still in the conceptual and …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the conceptualisation of the Smart
Sustainable City (SSC) with new concepts of resilience thinking in relation to urgent societal …

Urban resilience is the focus of a global policy discourse that is being mobilized by a wide
range of organizations to reduce urban risk and respond to the shocks and stresses facing …

Resilience provides an adaptive approach for dealing with environmental change, natural
risks and public health emergencies. Urban spatial resilience is an interpretation of …

Spatial planning decision-making is progressively acknowledging that nature-based
solutions are substantially beneficial to urban communities and their host cities. This paper …

The concept of a resilient city and its relationship with sustainable development has already
received wide attention among academics, practitioners, and decision-makers, especially in …

In contrast to many cities internationally, Johannesburg, South Africa, is densifying.
Densification takes varying forms across the city. These processes are driven by informal …