Urban futures that are more resilient and sustainable require an integrated social-ecological system approach to urban policymaking, planning, management, and governance. In this article, we introduce the Urban Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (URBES) and the Cities and Biodiversity Outlook (CBO) Projects as new social-ecological contributions to research and practice on emerging urban resil...

The Covid-19 pandemic newly brings food resilience in cities to our attention and the need question desired degree of self-sufficiency through urban agriculture. While these questions are by no means new periodically entering global research focus policy discussions during periods crises — last time financial crisis resulting price increases 2008 peri-urban agriculture continue be replaced land...

In recent years, urban communities in China have been continuously affected by extreme weather and emergencies, among which the rainstorm waterlogging disasters pose a great threat to infrastructure personnel safety. Chinese governments issue series of prevention control policies, but mitigation still needs be optimized. The concept “resilience” has unique advantages field community disaster ma...