Recent Advances in Vulnerability and Resilience Studies: Sustainable Development, Disaster Risk Management, and Climate Change Adaptation
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 15148
Special Issue Editors
Interests: urban resilience; climate change adaptation; risk and vulnerability assessment; urban governance and planning; composite indicators
Interests: risk management; urban resilience; indicators and scorecards; social vulnerability anaylsis; megacity and urban risk
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustainable development, disaster risk management, and climate change adaptation are highly interconnected. Vulnerability and resilience cut across these disciplines and are the central concepts to reveal what contributes to these positive visions and which interventions are needed to enhance them. This Special Issue aims to investigate novel research ideas to determine advanced concepts, processes, tools, methods, and practices of vulnerability and resilience studies toward sustainable development, multi-hazard disaster risk management, and climate change adaptation. This Special Issue will cover a wide variety of studies, including theoretical research, methodological progress, case studies, critical perspectives, and review articles. The potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Recent concepts, characteristics, and processes of urban resilience and vulnerability in the contexts of development, climate change, and natural disasters;
- Novel theoretical frameworks for enabling exploration, explanation, and experimentation of resilience and vulnerability of different but interconnected urban systems;
- New indicators, scorecards, and measurement tools for operationalizing vulnerability and resilience concepts at multiple scales;
- Innovative empirical insight into the existing barriers and gaps toward enhancing resilience and reducing vulnerability;
- Forward-oriented perspectives, guidelines, and mechanisms that enable the transformation of resilience and vulnerability concepts and practices in the context of increasing complexities and rapid changes in world dynamics.
Dr. Asad Asadzadeh
Dr. Bijan Khazai
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- resilience
- vulnerability
- climate change adaptation, sustainable development
- multi-hazard disasters
- indicators
- scorecards
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