Although the use of resilience in international relations and urban planning has given rise to a growing body critical research, this contested concept continues feature prominently conversation on development cities. Taking 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) network pioneered by Rockefeller Foundation as case study, article exposes some challenges inherent implementation global model resilience. Exp...

The resilience of cities in response to natural disasters and long-term climate change has emerged as a focus of academic and policy attention. In particular, how to understand the interconnectedness of urban and natural systems is a key issue. This paper introduces an urban model that can be used to evaluate city resilience outcomes under different policy scenarios. The model is the Wellington...

abstract nowadays, cities and communities have been established in places where are exposed to different disasters or due to technological progress are exposed to man-made incidents. the view to disaster management and urban management has been changed from response and mitigation to resilience and bounce back. resilience is a new concept which was introduced by hollings (1979) in ecology. this...

Urban resilience is an attractive concept among academies and governments with the increasing severity of climate change relevant disasters in cities. Few studies have been conducted to compare key elements attentions for enhancing urban Asian cities, although context-dependent. This study aims Singapore, Hong Kong Hangzhou. A comprehensive literature review expert interview validation were use...

objective: to compare resilience, positive/negative effect, and psychological vulnerability between fertile and infertile men. methods: the research sample consisted of 40 fertile and 40 infertile men who were selected among men who presented to an infertility clinic. to collect data, connor–davidson resilience scale, positive/negative affect schedule, and brief symptoms inventory were used. re...

This paper focuses on calculating resilience index of 282 cities in China from 2012 to 2019, analysis the regional differences and random convergence. We use entropy method calculate urban index, adopt Dagum Gini coefficient analyze sources, explore variation coefficients beta convergence model diagnose mechanism. The conclusions are: (1) is at a medium low level with stable growth tendency, si...