About this Research Topic
Climate change is causing more frequent and extreme weather events, such as floods, droughts, heatwaves, and hurricanes, which are adversely affecting infrastructure, housing, public health, and the overall quality of life for city dwellers. This has brought significant challenges to the development and construction of cities. Therefore, the concept of urban resilience has gained significant traction in research, as it aims to enhance the adaptive capacity of urban areas to climate change, making them sustainable, reliable, and safe.
Given the urgent need to improve urban resilience to climate change, this Research Topic seeks to bring together Original Research from a range of disciplines and perspectives to explore this complex topic. This could include research on improving urban planning and management to incorporate climate change considerations, building more resilient infrastructure, developing early warning systems, and promoting inclusive urban development. The Research Topic also calls for researchers and practitioners to work together to develop effective urban climate strategies, for example by identifying and addressing the systemic vulnerability of cities to climate shocks to address infrastructure deficiencies, natural resource deficiencies and social inequalities. Overall, the goal of this Research Topic is to advance understanding and promote dialogue on the complex relationship between climate change and urban resilience, and to identify potential solutions that can help increase cities' ability to adapt to climate change.
We welcome contributions that explore the intersection of climate change and urban resilience, including (but not limited to) the following themes:
• The relationship between climate change and economic, ecological, and social resilience;
• Climate change impacts on infrastructure and urban energy resilience;
• Multi-system resilience coupling in response to climate change;
• Climate change and urban systemic vulnerability;
• Technical measures for urban response to climate change;
• Urban sustainable development in the context of climate change;
• Advanced methods for assessing urban resilience;
• The role of media and public awareness in urban resilience to climate change;
• Policies and regulations for promoting urban resilience to climate shocks.
We encourage papers that use a range of research methods, including empirical, theoretical, and policy-oriented approaches.
Given the urgent need to improve urban resilience to climate change, this Research Topic seeks to bring together Original Research from a range of disciplines and perspectives to explore this complex topic. This could include research on improving urban planning and management to incorporate climate change considerations, building more resilient infrastructure, developing early warning systems, and promoting inclusive urban development. The Research Topic also calls for researchers and practitioners to work together to develop effective urban climate strategies, for example by identifying and addressing the systemic vulnerability of cities to climate shocks to address infrastructure deficiencies, natural resource deficiencies and social inequalities. Overall, the goal of this Research Topic is to advance understanding and promote dialogue on the complex relationship between climate change and urban resilience, and to identify potential solutions that can help increase cities' ability to adapt to climate change.
We welcome contributions that explore the intersection of climate change and urban resilience, including (but not limited to) the following themes:
• The relationship between climate change and economic, ecological, and social resilience;
• Climate change impacts on infrastructure and urban energy resilience;
• Multi-system resilience coupling in response to climate change;
• Climate change and urban systemic vulnerability;
• Technical measures for urban response to climate change;
• Urban sustainable development in the context of climate change;
• Advanced methods for assessing urban resilience;
• The role of media and public awareness in urban resilience to climate change;
• Policies and regulations for promoting urban resilience to climate shocks.
We encourage papers that use a range of research methods, including empirical, theoretical, and policy-oriented approaches.
Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
