Urban Sustainability and Urban Resilience Indicators: Preliminary Framework for a Methodology to Combine Both Approaches in a Common Indicator Set

Abstract

Urban sustainabilityUrban sustainability (US) and urban resilienceUrban resilience (UR) are two of the main approaches commonly used by cities, urban policymakers, and scientists to adapt urban areas with future requirements. Indicator sets measuring multidisciplinary performance levels are fundamental to the evaluation of the status and progress of urban areas in the domains of either sustainability or resilience. IndicatorsSustainabilitysustainability indicators enable us to agglomerate large amounts of complex and heterogeneous information in tangible and simplified values. The aim of this chapter is to establish an overview of the commonalitiesAsian urbanizationcommonalities and differences between urban sustainabilityUrban sustainability and urban resilience as well as between the topics and sectors valued by each perspective. It will then investigate the characteristics of different indicator sets used to assess the performance of the studied factors in the domains and sectors valued by either UR or US. This chapter also proposes a conceptual framework for defining possible intersections and combinations between the concepts of UR and US using the example of the water supplySustainabilitysustainable water supply sector.