Urban resilience for whom, what, when, where, and why?

Urban Geography

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2019, Pages 309-329

  Meerow, Sara ^a   Newell, Joshua P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptation; green infrastructure; social ecological systems; Urban resilience; urban sustainability; vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; INFRASTRUCTURE; SUSTAINABILITY; TRADE-OFF; URBAN GEOGRAPHY; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN SYSTEM; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 84978121142     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2016.1206395     Document Type: Article

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