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The coupling relationship between urbanization and ecological resilience in the Pearl River Delta
Urban resilience is an emerging research topic of urban studies, and its essence is described by the ability of cities to resist, recover, and adapt...
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Spatio-temporal evolution and dynamic simulation of the urban resilience of Bei**g-Tian**-Hebei urban agglomeration
The continuous growth of urban agglomerations in China has increased their complexity as well as vulnerability. In this context, urban resilience is...
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Convergences and Divergences in Rural Community Resilience—Case Studies from Ireland and the United Kingdom
The concept of rural community resilience has gained increased traction among academics, policy-makers and rural development practitioners....
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Analysis of Spatial Scale Effect on Urban Resilience: A Case Study of Shenyang, China
Based on urban physical space and theory of landscape ecology, a triune assessment framework —‘size-density-morphology’—was constructed in order to...
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Landscape Explorations Between Given and Acquired Resilience
This chapter presents a series of case studies from around the globe. These either take two landscapes of the same type and thus comparable given...
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Sustainability Through Integrated Resilience and Risk Management: Rivers and Disasters in Changing Climate
The world over the years has been subject to various significant natural hazards and has experienced their catastrophic impacts. Recurring...
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Spatial Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Urban Resilience from the Perspective of Daily Activity: A Case Study of Nan**g, China
Based on the connotation of urban resilience and the main contradictions of China’s urbanization, urban resilience is placed within the main daily...
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Resilience and urban form transformation: from San Fulgencio monastery to market in Écija, Spain
The nineteenth century city in Spain is defined by modernisation, transformation and urban renewal. The production of urban plans played an important...
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Characterising Urban Morphology for Urban Climate Modelling
Cities represent a challenge to conventional climate modelling. Globally and even regionally, they are relatively small in extent and characterised...
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Cities and COVID-19: Tracing COVID Footprints in Greek Cities
Cities, as the first recipients of crises, whether financial or health-related, are shaken, transformed, and survived, highlighting their resilience....
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Regional Resilience: An Urban Systems Approach
The current thinking of regional resilience is dominated by a nodal approach, i.e. based on resilience being primarily focused on isolated individual...
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The Preservation of Rural Landscapes for Building Resilience in Small Towns: Insights from North Italy
In small towns, rural landscapeRural landscape historically has been closely linked to its urban dimension in sha** relationships, local history,...
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Risk Mitigation and Resilience of Human Settlement
This contribution builds on a selective set of definitions and interpretations of risk and resilience with the aim of operationalizing those terms...
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A qualitative approach in comparing six cities toward a resilient response plan: COVID-19 and inequalities
COVID-19 has dramatically affected financial markets, economies, and societies worldwide and exposed pre-existing inequalities in cities. This work...
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Urban Coastal Landscape. The Fragile Buffer Areas of Bacoli, Palermo and Termoli to Switch the Decay into Development
The urban coastal landscape is now at the center of new attention, as a result of cultural, social, economic, and real estate evolution. A new...
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A cyclone preparedness plan for the coastal blocks of the Indian Sundarban
Sundarban is a designated world heritage with world’s largest contiguous mangrove forest cover, shared by India and Bangladesh. The Indian part is...
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Magnetic Nanocatalysts for Biofuel Production
This chapter provides an extensive review of the use of magnetic nanocatalysts in biofuel production. The focus is on their synthesis,...
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Coastal Hazards and Related Impacts in Greece
Greece has a coastline of about 16,000 km where most of its population, infrastructure, assets and socio-economic activity are concentrated. Most...
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Assessing the Relationship Between Spatial Configuration and Proximity to Basic Services. The Case Studies of Matera and Terni, Italy
Proximity and diversity of basic services are crucial aspects for the sustainability and resilience of urban areas, particularly in the context of...
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Timing and Mechanisms of Fluvial Responses to Rapid Land Use Changes in the Surrounding Highlands of the Pantanal Wetland (Brazil): The Case of Taquari River
Since the 1970s, the intensification of anthropogenic activities in the surrounding plateau has caused changes in surface processes that directly...