Building resilience in critical infrastructures for smart and connected cities requires
consideration of different types of interdependencies. Previous research has mainly …

The environmental management literature suggests that resilience is key to managing
complex systems and reducing vulnerability resulting from uncertainty and unexpected …

Resilience building has become a growing policy agenda, particularly for urban risk
management. While much of the resilience agenda has been shaped by policies and …

Background Wildfire management is increasingly shifting from firefighting to wildfire
prevention aiming at disaster risk reduction. This implies fuel and landscape management …

The city of Birmingham has experienced a number of significant flooding events in the past
two decades. The impacts of these flood events include physical damage to critical …

With the motivation to improve the understanding on the national and local levels of
governance, this chapter focuses on the actors at these two levels, such as ministries …

The new vision for surface/stormwater drainage systems, which is becoming de rigueur, is to
use bluegreen infrastructure to deliver maximum benefits via modifying cities for the …

The hydrometeorological information is shown in the form of intensity, duration and period of
return of extreme rains, in order to characterize the pluviometric regime in Haiti. Using …

This paper aims to frame the multi-layered water safety concept in the context of a
systematic, thorough, multidisciplinary and collaborative methodology for complex problems …