Key trends in resilience building in cities

The range of responses to urban risk at city level is very large, and depends greatly on the environmental context, the size of the city, and the stage of the city’s development. A comparison of how cities are addressing risk offers unique insight into the meaning of resilience at city level – how it is understood and how it is implemented – with notable differences in the type of activities undertaken by cities in different environmental and developmental contexts, and those at the early versus more advanced stages of resilience building. This section explores some of the key trends emerging, based on the activities cities are pursuing.

Related Subject(s): Human Settlements and Urban Issues