Sustainable Urban Risk Management and Resilience Strategy
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Health, Well-Being and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 753
Special Issue Editors
Interests: natural disasters; risk management and assessment; damage data assessment
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: urban and regional planning; disaster risk prevention; critical infrastructures; territorial resilience; geographical information system
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the face of frequent natural disasters with cascading impacts mainly occurring in risk-prone urban areas due to the combination of complex sets of interrelated processes (environmental, social, and economic), work on urban resilience provides a valuable opportunity to enhance the performance of both sustainable development and risk reduction programming at different spatial and temporal scales. In the last decade, major global urban resilience initiatives (e.g., SDG, New Urban Agenda, Sendai Framework and Paris Agreement, CER directive) have recognized the value and potential of land use planning as a proactive non-structural measure to reduce the current (and future) vulnerabilities of human settlements and infrastructures across all the phases of the so-called disaster cycle (from prevention to preparedness, emergency response, recovery, and reconstruction); however, there are still many challenges of simultaneously making sustainability, risk, and resilience practices part of ordinary urban planning and management activities. This Special Issue will explore comprehensive and cross-disciplinary approaches, methodologies, and applications of territorial and urban management systems, tools, procedures, and models that can be incorporated into a safe, resilient, and sustainable built environment. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
Technical and Data limitations (e.g., accurate risk data, particularly on exposure and vulnerability to multiple hazards that may co-exist in a given region);
Institutional and Governance challenges (e.g., coordination between urban planning, disaster risk management, and environmental policies);
Environmental and Climate issues (e.g., rising climate-related risks, loss of natural ecosystems);
Social Equity and Inclusivity (e.g., public awareness and participation).
Prof. Dr. Scira Menoni
Prof. Dr. Veronica Gazzola
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- disaster risk reduction
- natural disasters
- land use planning
- sustainable development
- territorial and urban management
- resilience
- stakeholders engagement
- knowledge and data
- disaster cycle
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