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The capacity of an urban area to maintain or quickly return to desired functions in the face of climate-related chronic stresses and/or acute shocks, to adapt to changing and uncertain climatic conditions, or to rapidly transform in ways that build climate-adaptive capacity across temporal and spatial scales. The result of infrastructural measures contributing to urban resilience that include climate-responsive design principles targeted at absorbing, reacting, recovering, adapting, and reorganizing in response to climate phenomena, and with the ultimate purposes of preserving infrastructure and increasing the capacity of urban populations to cope with the impacts of climate change in ways that maintain a shared urban identity. The outcome of integrating urban socio-technical-environmental systems to increase the...
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Cortesão, J., Copeland, S. (2022). Urban Climate Resilience. In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51812-7_205-1
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