Defining urban resilience: A review

• Published in: Landscape and urban planning Vol. 147; pp. 38 - 49
• Main Authors: Meerow, Sara, Newell, Joshua P., Stults, Melissa
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.03.2016
• Subjects: Adaptation; Adaptive capacity; bibliometric analysis; cities; Climate change; politics; Resilient cities; risk; Socio-ecological systems; uncertainty; urban areas; Urban resilience; Climate change; Socio-ecological systems; Resilient cities; Adaptive capacity; Urban resilience; Adaptation

•Bibliometric analysis reveals the influential literature on urban resilience.•The concept of resilience is beset by six conceptual tensions.•Urban resilience has been inconsistently defined.•The paper proposes a new, inclusive definition of urban resilience.•The paper asks us to consider resilience...