Dear colleagues,

Green infrastructure entails interconnected networks of natural areas and human life, which would help to reduce the negative effects of human activities on the environment during urban development. Green infrastructure is more environmentally friendly but also more economical, so it represents great potential for cities to increase and improve their actual ability and capacity to withstand natural disasters (such as storms, floods, and heatwaves), and thus, be more resilient. The risk of cities’ resilience and adaptation is heavily influenced by how we respond to those natural events, landscape structures, urban forms, and ecological environments. The question of how to quantify and evaluate the effect of those factors on urban adaptation and resilience has attracted attention among many scholars, governmental managers, and urban designers. Risk evaluation of urban resilience and adaptation under natural disasters is a significant method to quantify the change in city functions. Therefore, there is an urgent demand for global efforts to move toward the creation of more adaptative and resilient cities by adjusting green infrastructure strategies.

This Special Issue seeks to synthesize academic research and practical solutions to urban adaptation and resilience. Original ideas and understandings of green infrastructure, urban resilience and adaptation evaluation, nature-based urban adaption solutions, as well as green–gray infrastructure solutions are expected. These papers are encouraged to bring benefits to urban environment, urban energy safety, and government agencies that deal with urban design and construction. In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

1. Evaluation of urban resilience and adaptation;
2. Resilient city design;
3. Resilience quantification metrics;
4. Nature-based solutions;
5. landscape structures;
6. Green–gray integrated infrastructural solutions;
7. Urban ability of recover;
8. Heatwave and resilient cities;
9. Urban stormwater;
10. Sustainable cities.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Mo Wang
Dr. Chengliang Fan
Guest Editors

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• resilient city
• adaptation
• green infrastructure
• gray infrastructure
• climate change
• natual disater
• impact analysis
• risk evaluation