Long-term Resilient and Sustainable Cities: A Scoping Paper

Abstract

City resilience is seen as a city capability to recover from large events, such as natural hazards, and to positively manage ongoing city "stressors," such as the climate crisis, demographic change, social inequality, unemployment, and poverty. While the term ‘resilient city’ has its origins in dealing with natural disasters, its use now extends to a number of independent but interacting resilient domains, such as social resilience; economic resilience; community capital; institutional resilience; infrastructure resilience; and environmental resilience.