“…This approach provides a complete understanding of the relationships crossing through the city and affecting its resilience and vulnerability and generate a relevant and sound source of information for evidence-based decision-making in urban planning and adaptation. (Avelino & Grin, 2017;Berkes et al, 2002;Folke et al, 2005;Loorbach, 2010;Voβ et al, 2009) Collective action and self-organization Institutional self-organization capacity, collective decisionmaking, and diverse and effective stakeholder participation are fundamental for reflexive and polycentric governance of the system and its adaptations Self-organization and community participation in decision-making (Bott & Braun, 2019;Szlafsztein, 2014); participatory vulnerability assessments (Smit & Wandel, 2006); possession of property rights over the resources (Ostrom et al, 2002;Poteete et al, 2010) (Smit & Wandel, 2006); firms (in)actions (Neise et al, 2018); gender equality (Assan et al, 2018;Hossain & Zaman, 2018); decision support framework (Palutikof et al, 2019;Thorne et al, 2015) Vertical coordination Number, scope, quality, and connectivity in the relationships with regional, national, and supranational authorities, businesses, scientific actors, and the likes. Interscale mechanisms for shared learning and collaboration; common agendas and indicators…”