ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how urban resilience efforts can go wrong and embrace further urban complexity and ultimately follow an unsustainable trajectory. Resilience research looked at urban landscape to highlight a city’s capacity to cope with any natural hazards and return to its pre-hazard stage. A region-wide development strategy, which includes development and resilience efforts in the rural areas, can therefore play an effective role in managing urban challenges in the era of global environmental change. Planners and policy makers need to understand that if they want to protect, save, and improve liveability in Dhaka, it is important to decentralize development and resilience efforts. Urban-focused resiliency is often called ‘climate resilient,’ ‘climate-proofing’ or ‘resilient city.’ The city is already unable to provide sufficient urban services to its existing citizens. The pressure of the growing population, due to climate change impacts, will make Dhaka more vulnerable to different service collapses, along with increased social and political tensions.
