About 200 million people suffer annually from natural disasters. The economic damage of these events amounts to billions of dollars. In circumstances where more than 50% of the world’s population lives in cities, naturally arises challenge related to implementation of new methods and means aimed at enhancing the capacity of authorities to ensure the safety of human capital, economic values and natural resources. Resilience of cities, regarded as the ability to keep effective functioning during and after natural disasters, is determined by the many criteria. The most important of it is the correct organizational and planning structure of the settlement that meets the Sustainable Development Goals. The presence of a completed scientifically grounded and rational greening of the settlement system will allow for the main range of ecosystem services - from global, sanitary and hygienic and medico-social to scientific, educational, cultural and aesthetic. There are 6 main associated with the objects of greening and plantings subgroups of city resilience criteria. 8 main directions of work of the governing bodies are proposed to achieve the goals of the development of settlements in accordance with the principles of enhancing the viability. 8 main directions of governing bodies work are proposed to achieve the goals of the development of settlements in accordance with the principles of enhancing the city resilience.

The authors propose a number of indicators of green areas and objects of gardening as proxies for sustainable development: closeness of crowns, soil sodification, a protective cover of herbaceous plants, and a one-time recreational load. The article provides a brief explanation on the inability to use some classical indicators, such as species diversity, biomass, etc. on the territories of some settlements.

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The article is devoted to the assessment of one of the settlements resilient elements - green areas. It is the settlements greenery that fulfill a huge complex of ecosystem environmental services and functions. Several definitions of the settlement’s resilient are given. Further development of this scientific area is includes city resilient profiling and is carried out to compilation the object passport. The method of systematic analysis was applied to field data of structural features and functional zoning of cities in Russia and abroad. It allows us to identify the possibilities of green areas for determination of settlement resilient. The article gives a general view of relevant and up-to-date classification of green areas, which consists of 4 categories and 30 types. Each greening object is evaluated according to the author’s methodology, which includes an assessment of 31 indicators (e.g. debris on the land, area of disturbed land, the presence of unique species, the intensity of the load at survey time, etc.) Each greening object is evaluated according to the author’s methodology, which includes an assessment of 31 indicators (e.g. debris, area of disturbed land, the presence of unique species, the intensity of the load at survey time, etc.) and estimation of six classes of hemerobicity from normal to catastrophic. The total score of these indicators is the coefficient of the environmental situation. With this coefficient, it is possible: to assess the state; compare dynamics and objects, carry out remedial actions to reduce the class of hemorrhage and analyze the effectiveness of these actions. This indicator is a convenient tool for city logistics decisionmakers and public environmental organizations.

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