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An Integrated Methodological Framework to Assess Urban Resilience

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Urban Resilience: Methodologies, Tools and Evaluation

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The assessment of the urban resilience should be tackled with a systemic perspective that enables an integrated analysis of the environmental, social, economic and institutional factors and their interactions characterizing urban and other complex socio-ecological systems. Here we propose an integrated framework for such assessment with the following key components: (i) The hierarchical definition of resilience objectives and indicators. (ii) A dynamic system model taking into account the key socio-economic and environment factors and their interactions, in which resilience indicators are integrated. (iii) The assessment of model potential sources of uncertainty and their impact on model outputs. (iv) The analysis of vulnerabilities to exogenous drivers (scenario analysis) and the exploration of available management and planning options (policy assessment). (v) A multi-criteria procedure, in which indicators, resilience thresholds, model outputs and scenario and policy analysis are integrated to guide decisions for an improved urban resilience. The whole framework integrates a participative approach, mainly for the initial and final steps.

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  1. Association for Sustainability and Progress of Societies, ASYPS, New Water Culture Foundation, Zaragoza, Spain

    Julia Martínez-Fernández

  2. Department of Ecology and Hydrology, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain

    Miguel Angel Esteve-Selma

  3. Department of Experimental Sciences Didactic, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain

    Isabel Banos-Gonzalez

  4. Department of Life Sciences, University of Alcala, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain

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Martínez-Fernández, J., Esteve-Selma, M.A., Banos-Gonzalez, I., Guaita-García, N. (2022). An Integrated Methodological Framework to Assess Urban Resilience. In: González Castillo, O.F., Antoniucci, V., Mendieta Márquez, E., Juárez Nájera, M., Cedeño Valdiviezo, A., Osorno Castro, M. (eds) Urban Resilience: Methodologies, Tools and Evaluation. Resilient Cities. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07586-5_8

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