ABSTRACT
The characteristic of multidimensionality of resilience makes the concept of resilience flexible, on one hand, and elusive in its entirety and complexity, on the other, requiring continuous updates and insights. To mitigate the impacts due to uncertainty of future events, policy and urban risk planning and management must be taken into account in advance. Integrating uncertainties within the planning process and improving collaboration between different institutions and organizations, both public and private at all levels, are key components of resilience. Similarly, social diversity must be considered in order to reduce it through a more balanced distribution of resilience resources. A green economy can play an important role in achieving urban resilience that can be translated into investments directed toward energy efficiency and markets that stimulate eco-friendly consumption. Adaptation in this sense is key to limiting damage from climate change and, more broadly, from economic, social and health crises.
