Abstract
Resilience has been widely used as a concept to analyse, understand, and improve cities' coping capacities to disasters. However, it is still a challenge to operationalise and quantify resilience. This study proposes a framework for assessing resilience to disasters based on the relationship between disaster intensity and damage rate. We use intense (short-term heavy) rainfall-induced urban flooding in Shenzhen city, one of the largest cities in China, as an example to explore the main features and transferability of the proposed resilience assessment framework. In addition, we demonstrate the usability of the proposed framework by using it to assess and compare the effectiveness of two resilience-building strategies: (1) permeable pavement transformation and (2) land vulnerability reduction. This research makes an innovative contribution through its effective disaster-damage-based approach for quantitatively evaluating urban resilience to disasters, which can support building resilience and mitigating the impact of climate change.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 101402 |
| Journal | Urban Climate |
| Volume | 48 |
| Early online date | 16 Jan 2023 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Mar 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We acknowledge the support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Science Fund ( 42101273 ).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Authors
Keywords
- Climate adaptation
- Depth-damage curve
- Disaster
- Resilience assessment
- Urban flooding
- Urban resilience
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
- Urban Studies
- Atmospheric Science
