TY  - CHAP
AB  - Urban resilience is a fairly new but rapidly emerging area of interest. Academia as well as the professional and practitioner communities are increasingly engaged in understanding the characteristics of resilience in complex urban issues. The year 2007–2008 was a historical milestone in human history for two reasons. First, the percentage of urban population to total population in the world touched 50 percent; second, the works of climate scientists were recognized as being so significant that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2007. Both events are closely associated with and provide special impetus to further research into and understanding of urban resilience, which this chapter discusses further in the following sections.
VL  - 6
SN  - 978-0-85724-319-5, 978-0-85724-320-1/2040-7262
DO  - 10.1108/S2040-7262(2011)0000006008
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S2040-7262(2011)0000006008
AU  - Surjan Akhilesh
AU  - Sharma Anshu
AU  - Shaw Rajib
ED  - Rajib Shaw
ED  - Anshu Sharma
PY  - 2011
Y1  - 2011/01/01
TI  - Chapter 2 Understanding Urban Resilience
T2  - Climate and Disaster Resilience in Cities
T3  - Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 17
EP  - 45
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -