Climate Change, Urban Resilience and Disaster Risk Reduction

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue aims to advance interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary scholarly research studies on the growing challenges posed by climate-induced disasters in Global South countries in an era of unplanned and illegal immigration, climatic variations, poverty, mushrooming informal settlements, and socio-economic inequalities. It seeks to provide a platform for empirical research that explores the adverse impacts of climate change on vulnerable peri/urban communities in Global South countries. In addition, local governance mechanisms, disaster risk reduction strategies, multi-stakeholder collaboration and partnership and public–private partnership to mitigate the impacts of climate-induced disasters are empirically explored. These issues, now more than ever, must be critically examined in light of the growing literature on rising climate-induced disaster frequency and intensity, urban vulnerable populations and the urgent need for sustainable cities. This Special Issue contributes to emerging debates on resilience, inclusivity, sustainability, and adaptive good governance in cities.

Topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Urban resilience and climate change adaptation;
• Disaster risk reduction and urban governance;
• Floods, droughts, heatwaves, and climate change;
• Vulnerable populations and un-/planned settlements;
• Indigenous knowledge management systems and urban disasters;
• Artificial intelligence, forecasting and disaster risk reduction;
• Challenges and opportunities to use artificial intelligence for DRR;
• Disaster risk reduction programs in urban communities;
• Eary-warning systems and climate change capacity;
• Urban infrastructure resilience and critical systems;
• Integration of urban farming into disaster management policies;
• Urban planning, land use planning, and risk-sensitive development;
• Vulnerable populations and urban disasters;
• Immigration, displacement, supply chain management and urban humanitarian crises;
• Risk assessments and multi-hazard risks in urban environments.

We welcome manuscripts on original research, review papers, conceptual papers, policy analyses, methodological contributions, and case studies that address these contemporary issues.

Dr. Bethuel Sibongiseni Ngcamu
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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• artificial intelligence
• disaster risk reduction
• indigenous knowledge management systems
• urban vulnerable populations
• urban governance