**Preface to "Integrated Assessment of Climate Change Impacts and Urban Resilience"**

Modern cities are complex, vulnerable, and continuously evolving systems. In these dynamic areas, the existence of interacting strategic services and interconnected critical infrastructures, as well as the involvement of a multiplicity of stakeholders, adds complexity to their management.

Furthermore, urban resilience refers to the ability of an urban system—and all its key constituent parts—to maintain or rapidly return to desired functions in the face of a disruption, to adapt to change, and to quickly transform systems that limit current or future adaptive capacity.

Besides, the significant impacts of climate dynamics (such as intense precipitation events, tidal effects, droughts, or heat waves) on the urban strategic services, people, natural environment, and economy, as well as the aggravation of current conditions and the emergence of new hazards, also need to be considered in their management.

In this context, this Special Issue will publish cutting-edge methods and tools for a comprehensive assessment of climate change impacts and urban resilience and, also, for the proposal and prioritization of adaptation measures and strategies to cope with climate-related hazards and risks.

> **Beniamino Russo, Eduardo Mart´ınez-Gomariz** *Editors*
