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Copernicus for urban resilience in Europe. [PDF]
AbstractThe urban community faces a significant obstacle in effectively utilising Earth Observation (EO) intelligence, particularly the Copernicus EO program of the European Union, to address the multifaceted aspects of urban sustainability and bolster urban resilience in the face of climate change challenges.
Chrysoulakis N +14 more
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Do Smart Cities Represent the Key to Urban Resilience? Rethinking Urban Resilience. [PDF]
The pandemic disrupted all activities, so it became necessary to understand, but also rethink, the complexity of economic resilience to better deal with future shocks. A component that can signal the resilience potential of a socio-economic system is smart city response, using technology to make services more efficient.
Apostu SA +3 more
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Will COVID-19 end the urban renaissance that many cities have experienced since the 1980s? This essay selectively reviews the copious literature that now exists on the long-term impact of natural disasters. At this point, the long-run resilience of cities to many forms of physical destruction, including bombing, earthquakes and fires, has been well ...
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This article discusses a methodological proposal for the elaboration of urban resilience plans, which is one of the most important issues involving cities nowadays. The etymological concept of “resilience” needs to be rescued because Urban Resilience is the exact application of the original concept applied to cities, regardless of their scale. Bausista-
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Urban resilience – An urban management perspective
This paper seeks to contribute to the increasingly pressing debate on urban resilience. It does so from an urban manager's perspective. It reviews three conceptual approaches to the subject. These are then set against current urban development programmes in Kenya. It suggests a three-stage set of interventions.
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Resilience of Urban Technical Networks [PDF]
The need to overcome the insulated treatment of urban technical infrastructures according to the nature of the transferred flows is argued. The operation of urban technical networks is affected by endogenous and exogenous random events with consequences for users.
Serban Raicu +2 more
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Catching on “Urban Resilience” and Examining “Urban Resilience Planning”
21st century is an era which environmental and urban systems triggered complexity and eventually urban planning processes started to be chaotic. Hence, 2000s can be described as a period in which complexity science developed and the capacity for planning and management needed to be improved to solve the rapidly changing urban problems. The main concern
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The dynamic resilience of urban labour networks
Both cities and markets are well understood as complex systems which are amenable to analysis using physically inspired methods. Cities have shown fascinating universality with size, while labour markets modelled as networks have considerable explanatory power. Labour markets are a particularly attractive domain of study in this context due to societal
Xiangnan Feng, Alex Rutherford
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Urban Transitions: On Urban Resilience and Human-Dominated Ecosystems [PDF]
Urbanization is a global multidimensional process paired with increasing uncertainty due to climate change, migration of people, and changes in the capacity to sustain ecosystem services. This article lays a foundation for discussing transitions in urban governance, which enable cities to navigate change, build capacity to withstand shocks, and use ...
Ernstson H. +6 more
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