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Resilient Cities in a Sustainable World

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Definition

“Resilient cities are those which have the ability to absorb, recover and prepare for future shocks (environmental, economic, social and institutional),” while they encourage sustainable development, prosperity, and comprehensive growth (OECD 2018).

Introduction

Nowadays planet’s population is moving to urban areas more rapidly than at any time in humanity’s history. Increasing populations expose urban areas into crises, disruptions, and disasters. The rapid sprawl of cities resulted in developing urban areas that have highly negative impact on ecosystems, building infrastructures in hazard-prone areas, and burdening economic and social systems (Melkunaite and Guay 2016).

All the challenges the globe is confronting with, from economic inequality, pollution, and shortages of water, food, and energy to the effects of climate change, trigger scientists to realize that all of them are amplified in the cities (Stilwell et al. 2012).

Uncontrolled urban expansion continues, with...

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  1. Department of Environment, University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Greece

    Aristea Kounani

  2. School of Public Health University of West Attica, Athens, Greece

    Constantina Skanavis

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  1. FTZ-ALS, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences FTZ-ALS, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Ctr Neurosci & Cell Biology, 1 Floor, Univ Coimbra, Edf Fac Medicina, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökcin Özuyar

  5. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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  1. Department of manufacturing and civil engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Gjøvik, Norway

    Lizhen Huang

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Kounani, A., Skanavis, C. (2019). Resilient Cities in a Sustainable World. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71059-4_76-1

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