Sustainable Urban Planning: Complex Risk and Urban Security Resilience
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 3274
Special Issue Editors
2. School of Management Science and Engineering, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing 100081, China
Interests: sustainable development; urban resilience; infrastructure system
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Addressing external risks (e.g., natural disaster, aging infrastructure, public emergency) to ensure urban security is critical step to sustain local development. Different from single risk (e.g., drought) and nexus risk (e.g., water–energy–food nexus), complex risk contains the occurance of multiple risks in a specific location or during the same period, and does not operate in neatly contained categories. For example, interactions between the long-term COVID-19 risk and the sudden earthquake form a complex risk, which requires a new plan to address. These overlaying risks will prohibit the normal operation of urban interconnected infrastructures and strengthen the significant unintended results, leading to the inhibition of local sustainable development. Addressing complex risk and ensuring urban security are basic requirements to promote urban sustainability, but the exploration of complex risk is still in its infancy. The security resilience perspective can be employed as a potential effective approach. Urban security resilience adopts a life-cycle perspective, focusing on the whole process (e.g., before, during, after) of risk management, and highlights the role of self-balance (e.g., redundancy, adaptation, learning) in addressing complex risk, which is regarded as a new perspective on urban sustainable development. Therefore, exploring complex risk from the security resilience perspective requires further endeavours, especially regarding the impact of complex risk on the urban infrastructure system.
Urban systems are critical in sustaining social–economic development using the built infrastructure system. Globally, urban districts occupy less than 4% of the land surface but aggregate the majority of human activities, producing 80% of GDP and significant amounts of waste. External risks (e.g., natural disaster, aging infrastructure, public emergency) threaten the normal operation of urban systems. For example, 27% of the transportation infrastructure is exposed to natural disaster, leading to a loss of 3.1-22 billion USD. In a world of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity, complex risk emerges through the co-occurance of multi-risks. The impacts of overlaying risks cross boundaries, requiring further research to explore the characteristics and interaction mechanisms of complex risk. The security resilience perspective can be employed as a potential effective approach. Urban security resilience adopts a life-cycle perspective focusing on the whole process (e.g., before, during, after) of risk management, and highlights the role of self-balance (e.g., redundancy, adaptation, learning) in addressing complex risk. This is regarded as a new perspective on urban sustainable development. Therefore, this Special Issue will supplement the risk mapping, modeling, and governance work and provide important knowledge to understand complex risk and urban security resilience.
This Special Issue adopts a security resilience perspective to explore complex risk, focusing on the impact that complex risk has on the urban infrastructure system. Specifically, this Special Issue calls for research related, but not limited, to the following questions: What is complex risk? How does complex risk impact urban infrastructure systems? How does the security resilience of a city address complex risk?
Prof. Dr. Guijun Li
Dr. Daohan Huang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable urban planning
- risk prevention and management
- critical infrastructure system
- urban resilience
- coupling mechanism
- optimal management
- safety resilience
- urban risk
- human behavior
