urban resilience
UR-bun reh-ZIL-ee-ents
ˈɜːrbən rɪˈzɪliənsListen
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the capacity of a city's individuals, communities, institutions, and infrastructure to survive, adapt, and grow in the face of chronic stresses and acute shocks including climate-related flooding, extreme heat, earthquakes, pandemics, and economic disruption; urban resilience planning moves beyond disaster response to address underlying vulnerabilities through systemic investment in social cohesion, redundant infrastructure, green and blue infrastructure for flood management, adaptive governance, and equitable distribution of protective resources across all city populations
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