ABSTRACT
The study develops a conceptual urban resilience framework by integrating the pentagram sustainability dimension model with the identified dimensions of urban resilience, consolidating technology and temporal dynamism at the nexus of human interactions and climate change. The study instruments an expert and stakeholder knowledge matrix for highlighting the economic, social, cultural and institutional perspectives of climate change and considers the local adaptation capacities of individuals in an urban eco-sensitive area (UESA) that has been overlooked in the scope of urban resilience studies. The study conducts a situational analysis of UESA of the Ramsar-protected site of East Kolkata Wetlands (EKW) along the eastern periphery of Kolkata, a mega-city in India. The study detects the change in LULC of the UESA using Landsat 8 satellite images, adopting supervised classification techniques in ArcGIS. The study offers a set of recommendations for enhancing the resilient abilities of UESA and concludes with a discourse on resilience during pandemics.
