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Engineering, Civil
Manish Sharma, Bansari Sharma, Nand Kumar, Ashwani Kumar
Summary: This paper aims to establish inherent concepts associated with urban resilience theorizing and enhance the urban resilience of existing settlements by implementing a multidisciplinary approach and acknowledging the complex structure of urban resilience. The literature study-based paper reviews the concept of resilience, identifies its key components, and explores the links between urban resilience and disaster and urban planning nexus. It aims to establish synthesized urban resilience characteristic concepts and emphasize the importance of vulnerability, urban planning, coping and adaptation, and urban governance as key factors for the urban resilience framework. Urban planning and governance have the potential to positively impact urban resilience by reducing vulnerability and enhancing coping and adaptive capacities, making urban planning a potent tool in strengthening the resilience of the urban system.
NATURAL HAZARDS REVIEW
(2023)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Xin Fu, Matthew E. Hopton, Xinhao Wang
Summary: Green infrastructure (GI) is recognized for its benefits in reducing flooding risk, improving water quality, and harvesting stormwater. However, there is a lack of comprehensive assessment framework in existing literature to evaluate GI performance in promoting ecosystem functions and services for social-ecological system resilience.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2021)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Federica Leone, Ala Hasan, Francesco Reda, Hassam ur Rehman, Fausto Carmelo Nigrelli, Francesco Nocera, Vincenzo Costanzo
Summary: This paper introduces a new approach called "territorial acupuncture" to address the challenge of achieving carbon neutrality in densely populated territories without significantly altering the territories. This method combines various theories and practices, such as Biourbanism, urban acupuncture, and energy community design. By treating the territory as a single organism and implementing punctual interventions on a district scale, Territorial Acupuncture modifies energy, socio-economic, and environmental dynamics to enhance the resilience of densely populated territories.
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Business, Finance
Harold Contreras, Francisco Marcet
Summary: This study finds that arbitrage trades may lead to overreaction to earnings announcements, especially for stocks with high short covering. Short sellers are able to spot this overreaction and trade, but they tend to choose stocks with high short covering, quickly closing their positions to open new ones.
FINANCE RESEARCH LETTERS
(2021)
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Environmental Sciences
Mona Hemmati, Hussam N. Mahmoud, Bruce R. Ellingwood, Andrew T. Crooks
Summary: The increasing flood risk in urban communities is attributed to climate change and socioeconomic development. It is vital to move towards sustainable cities in response to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by the United Nations. Current methods to quantify flood risk often lack consideration of various geographical, social, and economic factors associated with urbanization. Introducing a framework that integrates urban growth models with hazard models can provide insights into flood risk management and aid in the development of sustainable and resilient communities.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2021)
Review
Economics
Juan Pablo Carvallo, Natalie Mims Frick, Lisa Schwartz
Summary: This paper explores the impact of energy efficiency on the reliability and resilience of power systems and highlights the limitations of existing metrics. Enhancing planning practices to better recognize the value of energy efficiency in terms of reliability and resilience presents an important opportunity for regulators and utilities.
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Urban Studies
Philip Berke, Justin Kates, Matt Malecha, Jaimie Masterson, Paula Shea, Siyu Yu
Summary: The study suggests that better integration of various planning efforts is needed for communities to address the growing threats of hazards and climate change. Findings from the cities of Nashua and Norfolk show that current plans are not fully consistent and some may actually increase vulnerability. This highlights the need for communities to adopt more effective approaches to improve the consistency and coordination of planning efforts.
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Environmental Sciences
L. Mohaghegh Zahed, M. Abbaspour
Summary: Currently, 60% of the global population lives in urban areas. Urban energy resilience can be categorized into short-term resilience, which deals with natural disasters, and long-term resilience, which focuses on climate change impacts. This study introduces a comprehensive resilience management model using a previous study's prioritized sub-criteria and a fuzzy analytic hierarchy process. An integrated index called the urban energy circular resilience index is utilized to evaluate the energy resilience of urban areas, with Tehran city as a case study. The findings emphasize the importance of an action plan to ensure energy resilience in Tehran.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
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Environmental Studies
William Otchere-Darko
Summary: This commentary suggests that by incorporating degrowth, the United Nations' Agenda 2030 and the New Urban Agenda can offer alternative ecological values as climate responses. In return, degrowth can benefit from engaging with the various scales and sectors of these institutions for climate and planning practices. However, these multi-scalar engagements require a repoliticisation of institutional and professional routines, processes, and procedures.
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Environmental Studies
Nur Zainul Arifin Norizan, Norhaslina Hassan, Mariney Mohd Yusoff
Summary: The study found that although all studied plans have integrated most measures to avoid risk and reduce vulnerability, measures on disaster preparedness were inadequate. Therefore, there is a need to further strengthen disaster resilience measures in local development plans to ingrain preparedness and adaptation with more inclusive participatory civil societies and stakeholders.
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Construction & Building Technology
Gemma Garcia-Blanco, Daniel Navarro, Efren Feliu
Summary: The paper discusses the experience of Valencia in applying climate-resilient thinking to the revision of the city's General Urban Development Plan. A risk assessment of heat stress was conducted on the city's functional areas, using modeling and spatial analysis exercises. The study provides recommendations for the city level and guidelines for development planning in high-risk areas, including the use of nature-based solutions. It contributes to various urban strategies and missions for climate adaptation and neutrality.
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Geography
Chethika Abenayake, Amila Jayasinghe, Hasintha Nawod Kalpana, Eshi Eranga Wijegunarathna, P. K. S. Mahanama
Summary: The transportation system is critical and can be significantly impacted by extreme weather events like urban flooding. However, most studies only focus on micro-scale approaches rather than looking at the holistic impact on the entire transportation system. This study presents a novel approach to assess the failure of the transportation system due to urban flooding and highlights the impact on human movement patterns.
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Development Studies
Nicole Lambrou, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
Summary: Resilience plans in cities demonstrate a certain level of acknowledgement towards defining resilience, implementing strategies, involving the public, and addressing equity issues, although lacking operational measures. Cities incorporate various goals under the term resilience, indicating an understanding of urban system complexity but risking the ineffectiveness of those goals. Most resilience plans lean towards quickly restoring previous states rather than embracing the transformative potential towards a more equitable future.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Asad Asadzadeh, Alexander Fekete, Bijan Khazai, Mahsa Moghadas, Esfandiar Zebardast, Maysam Basirat, Theo Koetter
Summary: Urban governance and planning systems play a crucial role in advancing sustainable development, climate change adaptation, and disaster risk reduction. However, these systems need to be revised in order to drive a transition towards new governance arrangements and planning mechanisms.
SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND SOCIETY
(2023)
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Construction & Building Technology
Celine Rendon, Khalid K. Osman, Kasey M. Faust
Summary: The study analyzed internal stakeholder interviews to identify obstacles and opportunities for building community resilience in Southeast Austin, with key recommendations focusing on increasing internal coordination and collaboration, as well as improving external communication and engagement. Although city agencies have a goal to advance racial equity, the reality of coordination efforts may reveal shortcomings that perpetuate inequitable outcomes in decision-making processes.
SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND SOCIETY
(2021)