Civil engineer for urban livability, sustainability and resilience

Urban Resilience: A Civil Engineering Perspective

The concept of resilience is used in multiple scientific contexts, being understood according to several different perspectives. Essentially, resilience identifies the capability to recover, absorb shocks, and restore equilibrium after a perturbation. Recently, resilience is triggering increasing interest in engineering contexts, referring to communities and urban networked systems, as the capa...

How Cities Think: Knowledge Co-Production for Urban Sustainability and Resilience

Understanding and transforming how cities think is a crucial part of developing effective knowledge infrastructures for the Anthropocene. In this article, we review knowledge co-production as a popular approach in environmental and sustainability science communities to the generation of useable knowledge for sustainability and resilience. We present knowledge systems analysis as a conceptual an...

Transportation Performance Management for Livability and Social Sustainability: Developing and Applying a Conceptual Framework

Interpreting Sustainability for Urban Forests

Incisive interpretations of urban-forest sustainability are important in furthering our understanding of how to sustain the myriad values associated with urban forests. Our analysis of earlier interpretations reveals conceptual gaps. These interpretations are attached to restrictive definitions of a sustainable urban forest and limited to a rather mechanical view of maintaining the biophysical ...

From fail-safe to safe-to-fail: sustainability and resilience in the new urban world

The extent to which the 21st Century world will be "sustainable" depends in large part on the sustainability of cities. Early ideas on implementing sustainability focused on concepts of achieving stability, practicing effective management and the control of change and growth-a "fail-safe" mentality. More recent thinking about change, disturbance, uncertainty, and adaptability is fundamental to ...