The objective of this review is to explore and discuss the concept of local food system
resilience in light of the disruptions brought to those systems by the 2020 COVID-19 …

Increased understanding of global warming and documentation of its observable impacts
have led to the development of adaptation responses to climate change around the world. A …

Approximately 1 billion people currently live in informal settlements, primarily in urban areas
in low-and middle-income countries. Informal settlements are defined by poor-quality …

Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not
wreak their damage equally across populations, and every disaster has social dimensions at …

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 …

Operationalizing the concept of urban disaster resilience is a major milestone toward
understanding both the characteristics that contribute to the resilience of cities to natural …

Scientists and policy-makers globally are calling for alternative approaches to conventional
intensification of agriculture that enhance ecosystem services provided by biodiversity. The …

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

The role of social resilience in disaster management continues to gain increasing attention
and interest from both researchers and practitioners. This paper critically reviews existing …

Despite the heightened interest in resilience over the past decade, theorising and
operationalising resilience across sustainable development, disaster risk reduction and …