The ability of a city as a
socio-ecological-infrastructural system and its component parts to absorb and
recover from shocks whilst retaining the essential same functions and identity,
to adjust to stresses and learn from them to reorganise and develop, and to
transform in order to adapt to social-economic and environmental changes, which
involves framing resource management according to resource availability within
this system over different temporal and spatial scales.
THE ABC FOR SUSTAINABLE CITIES
UNEP / UN HABITAT / FIDIC / GI-REC
Based on
Dodman
D and Diep L. Making the case for the nexus between resilience
and resource efficiency at the city level, prepared by IIED for UNEP in 2015
Based on
Dodman
D and Diep L. Making the case for the nexus between resilience
and resource efficiency at the city level, prepared by IIED for UNEP in 2015
