Integrating Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction in Cities: Approaches, Methods and Tools to Overcome the Implementation Gap in Urban Resilience
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 November 2023) | Viewed by 36909
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Architecture, University of Naples Federico II, 80135 Naples, Italy
Interests: sustainable design and technological retrofitting of buildings and public spaces; impact assessment of natural hazard on build environment and communities; environmental design and building technologies for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation; decision support tools for DRR and CCA in cities
Interests: structural mechanics; impact assessment of natural hazards (earthquakes, volcanic phenomena, hydrogeological events and climate change) on the built environment; exposure and vulnerability analyses; emergency planning and management; cost-benefit and multi-criteria analyses; decision support system and tools
Interests: disaster risk reduction; climate change adaptation and sustainable urban development;urban vulnerability; disaster resilient planning
Interests: participatory research methodology to assess the effects of climate change at the local level and co-production of community-based design measures for DRR and CCA in contexts of socio-environmental vulnerability
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Gaps observed in institutions, operations and research undermine the effective implementation of DRR and CCA measures in cities at international level, despite the fact that their integration is considered an overarching principle in global agendas. Specific strategies for integration between sectors are emerging, but the two areas remain often siloed in urban policy, governance and planning/design practice, resulting in critical implementation gaps in terms of strategies and investments at local level.
The full integration of DRR and CCA represents a paradigm shift, moving from risk assessments and urban strategies focused on single hazards to a systemic approach that aims at increasing the resilience of the various physical, social and functional components that characterize urban systems. Multi-hazard approaches in new developments, regeneration and retrofitting, concurrently addressing multiple geophysical, climate-related hazards, Natech and cascading effects, show a highly cost-effective potential, maximizing the effect of complementary measures and optimizing mitigation/adaptation design techniques within a multi-scale (building/neighbourhood/city) resilience perspective, and delivering social, environmental and economic co-benefits linked to the improvement of urban spaces’ liveability and environmental quality. Exposure, vulnerability and impact assessments represent an essential component of an evidence-based methodology aimed at increasing the potential for use of scientific results by decision-makers, combining dynamic impact scenarios with cost-benefit and multi-criteria analyses to assess the effectiveness of alternative options.
This Special Issue aims at investigating new frontiers in research and experimental applications in the field of DRR and CCA integration in cities, aimed at overcoming the implementation gap in investments and interventions to improve resilience of the built environment and communities. The contributions should focus on multi-disciplinary and interrelated domains, such as multi-hazard/impact modelling; resilient urban planning, building and infrastructure design; improved coordination in policymaking and funding allocation; environmental justice and co-design practices with local stakeholders and communities; resilient design driven by novel technologies and/or Nature-based Solutions; co-benefits and trade-offs assessments; disaster recovery and Build Back Better approaches.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Methods and tools for DRR and CCA integration in planning/design with a multi-hazard and multi-scale perspective (regional to local, city to neighbourhood, etc.);
- Multi-hazard probabilistic simulation models, vulnerability analysis and risk assessment methods, including theoretical advancements to align modelling frameworks for geophysical and climate-related hazards (including compound/cascading effects), as well as methods to integrate early warning and real-time simulations into reliable decision-support tools;
- Multi-hazard resilient design of buildings and infrastructure through “all-hazards”, “adaptive mitigation” and/or “build back better” principles, exploring methods to support the full disaster risk management cycle through effective planning and design solutions;
- Exploring the application potential of innovative technologies and nature-based solutions;
- Exploring and measuring the multiple social, economic, environmental co-benefits of integrated DRR and CCA strategies in cities;
- Improving current standards and regulations to foster public and private investments in multi-hazard resilience;
- Novel policy and governance mechanisms to achieve DRR and CCA integration at the national and sub-national levels, overcoming existing silos in governmental institutions and avoiding the duplication of efforts, the competition for resources and administrative inefficiencies;
- Achieving environmental justice by streamlining “top down” and “bottom up” policies, moving towards participatory models that go beyond mere risk awareness and communication, focusing on community engagement mechanisms to foster knowledge-sharing and co-design in multi-stakeholder contexts.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Mattia Federico Leone
Prof. Giulio Zuccaro
Dr. Ebru Gencer
Dr. Cristina Visconti
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- integrating DRR and CCA
- multi-hazard impact modelling
- multi-scale resilient design
- urban resilience
- nature-based solutions
- environmental justice
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