This paper presents a research project spanning over 15 years, dealing with territorial
resilience to flooding. This paper presents a global retrospective view on how research on …

Climate change and natural disasters have made it essential for governments to develop
system resiliency at the city, state, and national levels. This paper examines flood resilience …

'Critical infrastructure'generally refers to significant pieces of plant and equipment, such as
power stations and motorways. High population densities in cities, and the increasing …

The concept of resilience is used in multiple scientific contexts, being understood according
to several different perspectives. Essentially, resilience identifies the capability to recover …

Faced with increasing risks and uncertainties in urban environments, local planners and
decision-makers are forced to innovate their risk management strategies. In the 2000s, this …

Critical infrastructures are increasingly recognized to be playing important roles in urban
resilience theory and practice. However, little is known about which governance challenges …

In order to increase the flood resilience of cities (ie, the ability to cope with flood hazards), it
is also crucial to make critical infrastructure functions resilient, since these are essential for …

To prevent flood disasters, policymakers call for resilient cities which are better able to cope
with flood hazards. However, actual adoption of resilience measures in urban planning is …

The concept of Disaster Resilience has received considerable attention in recent years and
it is increasingly used as an approach for understanding the dynamics of natural disaster …

In large infrastructure systems–such as urban drainage–the consequences of choices for
interventions have to be lived with for the long term, which means that uncertainties can …