Asad Asadzadeh

University of Bonn | Uni Bonn · Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation (IGG), Urban Planning and Land Management Group

Human mobility in the context of environmental change has become a pressing issue in the last four decades, leading to a vast body of literature that this study seeks to analyze. This paper utilises bibliometric tools to provide a comprehensive overview of the structure, themes, and conceptual evolution of climate migration research over the last f...

The global population has rapidly urbanized over the past century, and the urbanization rate is projected to reach about 70% by 2050. In line with these trends and the increasing recognition of the significance of cities in addressing local and global challenges, a lot of research has been published on urban studies and planning since the middle of...

Urban governance and planning systems are central cornerstones of international research and policy initiatives to advance sustainable development, climate change adaptation, and disaster risk reduction in the context of increasing global environmental change. Yet, the inherent processes and components of conventional governance and planning system...

Transformational resilience is at the forefront of academic and policy initiatives on sustainable development, climate adaptation, and disaster risk reduction as a result of successive and complex changes in global dynamics. While the literature on transformative resilience is growing, there is no comprehensive analysis of its trends and developmen...

The smart city is an emerging dominant urban development paradigm across the globe. Many city governments are using technology solutions to address their challenges. The growing and disproportionate threat of climate-induced disasters are posing multiple risks to cities. Resilience building is a complex phenomenon and is increasingly considered an...

Growing urbanisation and climate extremes prompt urban research on vulnerability and resilience. At the same time, socioecological impacts and interactions are studied in equally affected rural areas as well. However, interlinkages between urban and rural research and vulnerability and resilience also need attention. Mutual interdependencies exist...

This paper examines transformative resilience as the common challenge for urban/regional governance and planning systems in two contrasting contexts from the Global North (Germany) and the Global South (Iran). The aim is to reveal the pathways and trade-offs through which governance and planning systems interactions constrain or open opportunities...

Tabriz city in NW Iran is a seismic-prone province with recurring devastating earthquakes that have resulted in heavy casualties and damages. This research developed a new computational framework to investigate four main dimensions of vulnerability (environmental, social, economic and physical). An Artificial Neural Network (ANN) Model and a SWOT-Q...

Tehran Urban Research and Planning Center (TURPC), with the aim of developing scientific discourse, exchanging ideas, sharing knowledge, and transferring successful experiences in the field of urban management, has held a research and innovation festival (Tehran Urban Forum) for eleven courses. The event, which has been promoted from Tehran Municip...

In the context of Transforming City Regions, phenomena such as globalization and digitalization accelerate change and bring several aspects of life into motion. If used in a smart way, such developments might trigger a promising dynamic for local people, their living environment, and regional economy. "Urban Integration: From Walled City to Integra...

Available as Open Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101635

Operationalizing the concept of urban disaster resilience is a major milestone toward understanding both the characteristics that contribute to the resilience of cities to natural hazards and the interactions required to build and sustain it. While the measurement of urban disaster resilience has recently gained much attention, there is so far no o...

The concept of community disaster resilience is an increasingly important discourse on environmental changes and has been under debate on international academic and policy circles over the past decade. While conceptualizing disaster resilience is increasingly seen as a significant and requisite undertaking in hazard mitigation, reduction, and plann...

In recent years, cities have been confronted with increasing risks induced by climate change and natural hazards impacts. The experience gained highlights how cascading failures of critical infrastructures and basic services can affect both inherent and adaptive capacities of cities in time of an adverse event and create post disaster conflicts. At...

While there is currently a trend of attention on the measurement of urban disaster resilience, endeavors are in their infancy and much more efforts are needed to transit from merely conceptual frameworks to empirical assessments. Resilience, especially the concept of urban resilience encompasses the way in which cities face changes and includes cap...

The measurement of community disaster resilience through the development of a comprehensive set of composite indicators is becoming increasingly commonplace. Despite this growing trend, there is neither an agreement upon a standard procedure nor a comprehensive assessment of existing measurement frameworks in the relevant literature. To tackle thes...

From the natural perspective, disaster resilience is defined as the ability of a system or community to resist, mitigate, respond, and recover from the effects of hazards in efficient and timely manner. How urban communities recover subsequent a disaster event is often conceptualized in terms of their disaster resilience level. While numerous studi...

This study develops a theoretical framework to operationalize the concept of urban resilience in the context of various threats and stresses. The prototype of the model follows a multi -hazard approach and examines the impact of eight stress scenarios on main urban functions such as demographics, infrastructure, environment etc. The potential perfo...

A major milestone in conceptualizing and achieving disaster resilience is performed through the development of measurement and benchmarking tools for better understanding of factors that contribute to resilience and the effectiveness of interventions to sustain it. Constructing composite indicators is often addressed as an efficient way to fulfill...

There is currently a trend of attention on the concept of resilience as a new paradigm for dealing with natural hazards and disasters which take place on global, national, and local scales. How urban communities react to and recover from hazards and disasters can be conceptualized through their disaster resilience level. While the predominant appro...

For a sustainable urban development policy, it is important to assess how the conditions of social and economic attributes and physical and built environment of cities contribute to urban resilience. The developed methodology provides a self-evaluating tool that can be performed by every city.

Enhancing disaster resilience of hazardous communities is increasingly considered as the fundamental objective for the scholars in hazard reduction, mitigation and planning. Despite an agreement among scholars on the need for the accurate assessment of disaster resilience levels, the standard mechanism by which this phenomena could be measured is s...

This study focuses on stakeholders’ participation, perceptions and local contextualization in the Informal Settlement (IS) regularization processes in Khulna City. These processes are undertaken to address livelihood challenges of IS dwellers and to operationalize development initiatives in informal regularization projects. Adopting both a qualitat...

Location planning process as one of the most complicated spatial decisions is the initial and perhaps one of the critical steps in the development of a New Town. Site selection (seat and location) is a fundamental factor in success of new towns functionality, and also determines the success of the new town investment. Since location planning and se...