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Boost resilience of small and mid-sized cities

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  • Joern Birkmann

    (Joern Birkmann is director of the Institute of Spatial and Regional Planning, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.)

  • Torsten Welle

    (Torsten Welle is a senior lecturer, at the Institute of Spatial and Regional Planning, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.)

  • William Solecki

    (Institute for Sustainable Cities, Hunter College, City University New York, New York, USA.)

  • Shuaib Lwasa

    (Geoinformatics and Climatic Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.)

  • Matthias Garschagen

    (Matthias Garschagen is head of section at the United Nations University, Institute for Environment and Human Security, Bonn, Germany.)

Abstract

Smaller settlements are growing faster than megacities — and they need more protection from extreme events, write Joern Birkmann and colleagues.

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  • Joern Birkmann & Torsten Welle & William Solecki & Shuaib Lwasa & Matthias Garschagen, 2016. "Boost resilience of small and mid-sized cities," Nature, Nature, vol. 537(7622), pages 605-608, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:537:y:2016:i:7622:d:10.1038_537605a
    DOI: 10.1038/537605a
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