Sustainability and resilience for transformation in the urban century

T Elmqvist, E Andersson, N Frantzeskaki… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
We have entered the urban century and addressing a broad suite of sustainability
challenges in urban areas is increasingly key for our chances to transform the entire planet …

Compound droughts and hot extremes: Characteristics, drivers, changes, and impacts

Z Hao, F Hao, Y Xia, S Feng, C Sun, X Zhang, Y Fu… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Compound droughts and hot events or extremes (CDHEs) may lead to larger repercussions
than do individual extremes. Due to the disastrous impacts and increased risk of these …

Radical changes are needed for transformations to a good Anthropocene

T McPhearson, C M. Raymond, N Gulsrud… - Npj urban …, 2021 - nature.com
The scale, pace, and intensity of human activity on the planet demands radical departures
from the status quo to remain within planetary boundaries and achieve sustainability. The …

A systematic literature review on urban resilience enabled with asset and disaster risk management approaches and GIS-based decision support tools

SMHS Rezvani, MJ Falcão, D Komljenovic… - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
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 …

Loss of ice cover, shifting phenology, and more extreme events in Northern Hemisphere lakes

S Sharma, DC Richardson, RI Woolway… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Long‐term lake ice phenological records from around the Northern Hemisphere provide
unique sensitive indicators of climatic variations, even prior to the existence of physical …

Compound, cascading, or complex disasters: what's in a name?

SL Cutter - Environment: science and policy for sustainable …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
16 ENVIRONMENT WWW. TANDFONLINE. COM/VENV VOLUME 60 NUMBER 6 iStoc
k/Karl Spencer events all refer to these types of situations where there is a single triggering …

A review of measuring ecosystem resilience to disturbance

C Yi, N Jackson - Environmental Research Letters, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Resilience is the central concept for understanding how an ecosystem responds to a strong
perturbation, and is related to other concepts used to analyze system properties in the face …

Extreme events in dynamical systems and random walkers: A review

SN Chowdhury, A Ray, SK Dana, D Ghosh - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Extreme events gain the attention of researchers due to their utmost importance in various
contexts ranging from climate to brain. An observable that deviates significantly from its long …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of extreme precipitation climate indices and their projected changes for Brazil: From CMIP3 to CMIP6

FJ de Medeiros, CP de Oliveira, A Avila-Diaz - Weather and Climate …, 2022 - Elsevier
Extreme events usually cause numerous economic and social losses, especially in
vulnerable countries, such as Brazil. Understanding whether the evolution of Earth System …

[HTML][HTML] Interactive spatial planning of urban green infrastructure–Retrofitting green roofs where ecosystem services are most needed in Oslo

ZS Venter, DN Barton, L Martinez-Izquierdo… - Ecosystem Services, 2021 - Elsevier
Spatial multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) is increasingly being used to inform urban
green infrastructure planning. We explore the use of modern cloud computing technologies …