Preface "Natural hazard resilient cities"

Vulnerability, Urban Design and Resilience Management

“…This dual function considerably limited the role played by reservoirs 1 during the 2016 floods. A year 1 Reservoirs only enabled water-levels in Paris to be lowered by a few centimetres at the most. The second singularity was due to the location of flood-generating rainfalls, which mainly occurred downstream of the reservoirs and upstream of Paris.…”

“…In both civil society and scientific fields, the frequency with which the term "resilience" is used has increased dramatically since 2005 [1,2] in discourses on climate change, natural risk management and urban and territorial development. Etymologically, the word "resilience" comes from the Latin "resilio, resilire," which means taking a step backward and having the ability to restart.…”

A disaster-damage-based framework for assessing urban resilience to intense rainfall-induced flooding

“…It emphasises the self-organising processes of systems in response to disasters. More specifically, resilience is reflected in the processes such as absorbing damage, adapting to risks, limiting further expansion of disasters when recovering from disasters, and mitigating the impact (Serre and Barroca, 2013;Nelson et al, 2007;Newman et al, 2009;McLellan et al, 2012;Hosseini and Barker, 2016;Tanner et al, 2017;Vugrin et al, 2011).…”

Considering Hazard Estimation Uncertain in Urban Resilience Strategies

“…If hazards prove to be interesting factors of innovation for cities and buildings (Romero-Lankao and Dodman, 2011), risk management measures must be taken in an appropriate context of governance and with adequate knowledge of any changes in socio-economic contexts and uncertainties (Adger et al, 2008). Research on vulnerability has increased over the last few years (Serre and Barroca, 2013;Birkmann et al, 2013). This type of research normally assesses a city's vulnerability to a hazard and sometimes introduce resilience indicators, strategies or adaptation scenarios (Barroca et al, 2006;Romero-Lankao and Qin, 2011).…”