Urbanization is a continuous process for a city's economic development. Though rapid
urbanization provides a huge employment opportunity for people, urban threats also …

Cement concrete is a ubiquitous material used extensively in infrastructure worldwide.
However, cement concrete would degrade during its long-term service life. The limited real …

More than any other facet of resilience, social resilience raises the inherent tension within
the concept between identity or persistence, and transformation. Is a community the people …

Gender studies have highlighted how policies and actions that are not drafted and planned
with a gender perspective tend to produce a gender bias. Climate policies are not an …

This paper examines communities' accessibility to critical facilities such as hospitals,
emergency medical services, and emergency shelters when facing flooding. We use travel …

Impoverished and under-served communities are often exposed to the worst environmental
and climate hazards. Identifying these communities and building their resilience capacity to …

Infrastructure systems are inextricably tied to society by providing a variety of vital services.
These systems play a fundamental role in reducing the vulnerability of communities and …

Ensuring the social equity of planning measures in social systems requires an
understanding of human dynamics, particularly how individual relationships, activities, and …

Over the past two decades, the attention for resilience has increased dramatically and
resilience has become the leading paradigm for considering risks and uncertainty in …

This paper evaluates literature across multiple disciplines and stakeholder types to identify
commonalities and contradictions in definitions for community resilience. It aims to support …