Adaptation and Resilience Improvements of Urban Green-Gray Infrastructure
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2023) | Viewed by 8848
Special Issue Editors
Interests: landscape architecture; nature-based solution; green infrastructure; low-impact development; resilient cities
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Interests: urban heat wave; climate resilient building; building energy; optimal control in building energy system
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Interests: power & energy systems, grid-interactive efficient buildings, infrastructure resilience, optimization, machine/reinforcement learning
Interests: urban heat island; urban heat mitigation strategies; decision-making framework; sustainable urban planning
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The extreme weather events, energy demand, and thermal environment changes in urban areas are exacerbating urban management, energy safety and human health issues. The risk of urban resilience and adaptation is heavily influenced by how we respond to those events (such as droughts, floods, and heatwaves). Risk evaluation of urban resilience and adaptation under extreme weather conditions is a significant method to quantify the change in urban functions. This is in terms of urban capacity and ability to recover. There are many factors intertwined with urban capacity and its ability to recover, including the political, structural, financial, and ecological environment. This indicates that risk is specific to urban characteristics. The question of how to quantify and evaluate the effect of those extreme weather events on urban adaptation and resilience has attracted the attention of many scholars, governmental managers, decision-makers, and urban designers. Therefore, there is an urgent demand to make global efforts to move toward the creation of more adaptative and resilient cities by reducing extreme weather disasters.
This Special Issue seeks to synthesize academic research and practical solutions to urban adaptation and resilience. Original ideas and understandings of urban resilience and adaptation evaluation, resilient design of urban infrastructure, nature-based urban adaption solutions, as well as green-gray infrastructure solutions are expected. These papers are encouraged to bring benefits to the urban environment, urban energy safety, and government agencies that deal with urban design and construction. In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Assessment of urban resilience and adaptation
- Resilient design of urban infrastructure
- Resilience quantification metrics
- Nature-based solutions
- Urban green-gray integrated infrastructural solutions
- Risk assessment of urban capacity
- The urban ability to recover
- Improvement of urban resilience
- Urban heatwaves
- Urban stormwater
- Urban energy safety
- Sustainable cities
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Mo Wang
Dr. Chengliang Fan
Dr. Shunbo Lei
Dr. Jinda Qi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- resilience
- adaptation
- urban green infrastructure
- urban gray infrastructure
- climate change
- extreme weather events
- impact analysis
- evaluation model