The spatio-temporal dynamics of urban resilience in China's capital cities

Urban resilience refers to the of a city after external shocks and its ability prevent, respond recover from extreme disasters. In 2015, United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs) made urban one global sustainable development goals. Additional information regarding can have positive effect on transformation toward more city. For China, research is still in infancy, there insufficient experience implementing key tasks project management. This studies 30 China's provincial capital cities, constructs an evaluation framework system for resilience, measures Chinese cities 1998 2017, explores their temporal spatial evolution based econometric models. The results show that (1) gap level between been increasing over time; (2) Northeast, Southwest, Northwest Yangtze River Delta regions China significant “convergence”; (3) located economically developed areas such as Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, Pearl Delta, namely, Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou Guangzhou, exhibit higher levels. contrast, Lanzhou Yinchuan northwest Harbin Changchun northeast lower levels resilience. Finally, relevant policy recommendations are proposed at national, regional