Resilience in City and Rural Areas under Global Environmental Change
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2019) | Viewed by 470
Special Issue Editors
Interests: urban and regional planning, resilience and disaster-mitigation planning , low-carbon eco city, spatial analysis, and GIS
Interests: energy-efficient buildings; green building design; building energy analysis; application of renewable energies in buildings; HVAC; heat transfer; phase change materials
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Dear Colleagues,
Global environmental change is potentially associated with myriad socioeconomic and physical environmental shifts, and increases in the frequency and/or intensity of extreme disaster events. Due to the different socioeconomic components and land-use types, the challenge of global environmental change might vary in city and rural areas. In order to respond to frequent disruptive disasters, the concept of resilience emerged in urban planning in the late of 1990s, and such approach is an appropriate way of achieving more effective and efficient management of city and rural areas. Resilience imagines that city and rural areas are capable of withstanding and rebounding from fatal natural and artificial disasters. Resilience has been applied to both physical environments and subjective perceptions, and such a practice might vary according to socioeconomic conditions and geographical locations. Therefore, this Special Issue seeks articles addressing the analysis, assessment, and establishment of resilience in city and rural areas. Researchers working on empirical research, conceptualizations, case studies, reviews, and evaluation studies are invited to submit proposals for this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Hsueh-Sheng Chang
Prof. Dr. Chi-Ming Lai
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- resilience
- city planning
- rural planning
- global environmental change
- sustainable environment
- physical resilience
- subjective resilience
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