Urban Resilience and Urban Sustainability under Climate Change (Second Edition)

Dear Colleagues,

The concept of resilience is gaining increasing attention in various fields related to cities and climate change. Although there is some disagreement among different sources on defining and measuring resilience, there is broad consensus that:

• Cities must be resilient to a wide range of shocks and stresses in the face of climate change; and
• Efforts to foster resilience to climate change must be coupled with efforts to promote urban development and sustainability.

Emerging issues for future studies should highlight some of the challenges associated with the practical application of resilience approaches. These challenges include addressing the equity issues associated with uneven patterns of resilience both within and between cities, assessing the costs of implementing resilience strategies, and identifying options for harnessing the potential for innovation in cities as a means of fostering resilience and sustainability.

Urban sustainability specifies that efforts in this new framework must respond to the mobility of citizens, individually and collectively, within and between cities, as well as the needs for the movement of goods; it will require, among other things, serious changes in the business models: vehicle autonomy, crowdsourced logistics, and urban micro-consolidation centers. In many urban models, crowdsourcing jobs are already common, giving uncertainty in the available workforce and their behavior.

• Papers focused on defining and measuring urban resilience and climate change;
• Papers focused on urban sustainability and climate change;
• Urban use of resources across to urban resilience and sustainability;
• Urban citizen movement and urban resilience and sustainability;
• Urban freight movement and urban resilience and sustainability;

Urban commons, community organizations and the “third sector” as factors in “smart city” concepts (e.g., for demand management) and resilience.

Dr. Nir Y. Krakauer
Guest Editor

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• urban resilience
• urban sustainability
• climate change
• urban use of resources (water, electricity, etc.)
• urban citizens and freight movements
• responsive government and resilience

• Urban Resilience and Urban Sustainability under Climate Change in Land (12 articles)