Urban resilience describes the ability of a city or urban community to withstand, recover from or adapt to man-made and natural disasters.[1][2] This concept includes the resilience of physical infrastructure and social, health, and economic systems.
This review synthesizes current understanding of urban vulnerability and resilience to climate extremes, emphasizing the interactions among physical infrastructure, socioeconomic conditions, and governance systems that shape a citys capacity to withstand and recover from disruptions.
Building upon this conceptual framing, this study aimed to develop and apply a climate risk assessment framework that treats structural vulnerability and resilience as functionally distinct yet interacting dimensions of urban climate risk.
Moving forward, it's essential to keep these visual contexts in mind when discussing Urban Resilience And Climate Risk Assessment.
Building on this framework, we further advance a methodological pipeline to streamline the application of urban resilience in the context of climate risk assessment (Figure 8). This report describes a comprehensive, transparent, and flexible tool that cities can use to identify the greatest risks, successes, and priorities for decreasing urban vulnerability and increasing resilience to climate change. Case studies were conducted with Washington, DC and Worcester, MA to provide examples of the tools application. Launched at the UN Climate Summit in September 2019, UNDP is a key partner to the CCRI, which seeks to transform infrastructure investment by integrating climate risks into decision-making globally, including in cities. Scholars and experts have emphasized integrating urban resilience practices into adaptation and mitigation strategies for climate change (Rana, 2020). Climate change increases the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events such as hurricanes, floods, and heatwaves. But cities are also sources of great resilience and key players in the global movement to prepare some of the worlds most vulnerable communities for climate change. Many are investing in climate-proofing infrastructure, risk-reduction programs and information management systems.
This report describes a comprehensive, transparent, and flexible tool that cities can use to identify the greatest risks, successes, and priorities for decreasing urban vulnerability and increasing resilience to climate change. Case studies were conducted with Washington, DC and Worcester, MA to provide examples of the tools application.
Launched at the UN Climate Summit in September 2019, UNDP is a key partner to the CCRI, which seeks to transform infrastructure investment by integrating climate risks into decision-making globally, including in cities.
