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The urgency of climate resilience for urban areas is discussed by providing an overview of the most important climate impacts such as floods, droughts, biodiversity decline, urban heat stress, and social vulnerability. This book presents the overarching framework of climate resilience in urban areas. This framework consists of five pillars: threshold capacity, coping capacity, recovery capacity, adaptive capacity, and transformative capacity. This framework is based on an extensive literature review of definitions on resilience and vulnerability, and it can be used to develop comprehensive resilience strategies. The framework will be used as an integrating thematic line throughout all the chapters in the book.
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de Graaf-van Dinther, R., Ovink, H. (2021). The Five Pillars of Climate Resilience. In: de Graaf-van Dinther, R. (eds) Climate Resilient Urban Areas. Palgrave Studies in Climate Resilient Societies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57537-3_1
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