Interdisciplinary Research for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Engineering
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 April 2026) | Viewed by 1130
Special Issue Editor
Interests: climate change; climate hazards and extreme events; critical infrastructure protection
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate change and dynamic variability have multi-dimensional impacts, affecting virtually all physical, structural, and human systems. A major and persisting challenge of the research community is to provide relevant valid scientific knowledge on understanding compounded climate hazards, their induced multi-dimensional vulnerability leading to cascading impacts across scales and systems, and the development of resilience capacities for addressing systemic climate change adaptation, sustainable development, and disaster risk reduction.
This Special Issue aims to present research advances in climate change adaptation and transformational shifts towards more resilient societies, cities, and infrastructure. We welcome contemporary research on how compounded hazards are exacerbated by climate change, multi-hazard exposure studies on interconnected systems, infrastructure, and urban and rural communities, as well as their dynamics and vulnerability to multi-dimensional components like governance and organizational, physical, financial, human, and societal aspects.
This Special Issue invites studies that present systemic transformation solutions that promote climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, societal health and wellbeing, and sustainable development while also dealing with their co-benefits and trade-offs. Particularly, interdisciplinary research on addressing the above mentioned vulnerabilities from multiple scientific domains is encouraged, with the aim of supporting the uptake of innovative ideas and concepts by local stakeholders.
Dr. Athanasios Sfetsos
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- climate change
- adaptation
- interdisciplinarity
- climate risk
- cities
- infrastructure
- engineering
- human
- governance
- urban planning
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