The concept of resilience is increasingly used in academic and policy circles. To
operationalize this concept and reduce the ambiguities surrounding it, since the turn of the …

The urban environment is a complex structure with interlinked social, ecological and
technical structures. Global warming is expected to have a broad variety of impacts, which …

The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has called for a framework that “better
anticipates future shocks and stresses…, values resilience properly, drives adaptation …

Assessing the effectiveness of climate adaptation action is the focus of intense debate
across scientific and policy arenas. Measurement is essential for effective adaptation …

The resilient city metaphor is nowadays widely used to depict a city that is capable of
withstanding, absorbing, and recovering from sudden events and chronic stresses, caused …

Climate change has increased the frequency and severity of disaster events and this trend is
expected to grow in the future. Extensive structural damages and fatalities are particularly …

Local governments are at the forefront of responding to climate change in developing risk
assessments and mitigation and adaptation strategies. In the Australian context, local …

In Australia, local governments are at the forefront of responding to climate change through
the development of risk assessments, and mitigation and adaptation strategies. However …

The Monitoring and Evaluation process is vital in ensuring project efficiency and
effectiveness during the life cycle. Thus, the imperative need to exhaustively study the …

About 70 percent of Italian municipalities that have fewer than 5,000 inhabitants are located
in difficult to access mountain areas which are often prone to multiple hazards. As clearly …