Fostering high-resolution disaster resilience assessment is essential for high-density cities
(HDCs) given their congested built environment. This study introduces and demonstrates a …

Featured Application This paper presents a review of literature on urban resilience,
highlighting research gaps and suggesting solutions such as using asset and disaster risk …

Resilience planning and emergency management require policymakers and agency leaders
to make difficult decisions regarding which at-risk populations should be given priority in the …

With the increasing expansion of cities associated with rapid urbanization, the ecological
environment is being severely damaged, exposing cities to frequent extreme weather …

Resilience has been widely used as a concept to analyse, understand, and improve cities'
coping capacities to disasters. However, it is still a challenge to operationalise and quantify …

Abstract Maps and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are widely used to better
understand and manage risks in modern cities. While methods for mapping hazard …

China is one of the countries affected most by natural hazards. With the rapid urbanization
process, the susceptibility of Chinese cities to natural disasters increases. In this paper, we …

Those involved in making resilience strategies and planning are struggling to understand
the dynamic and complexity of urban areas and should be presented with a systematic tool …

Cities encounter various risks, and flood disasters are one of the most frequent, leading to
significant economic loss. The uncertainty of external shocks makes it necessary to bring …

Making a city disaster-resilient means understanding the capacity of communities and
decision-makers to actively adapt to, cope with, and transform in view of potential threats …