Mahsa Moghadas

University of Bonn | Uni Bonn · Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation (IGG)

The paradigm of sustainable resilient cities underscores the importance of how to withstand and rapidly recover from natural disasters, pandemics, or chronic stresses associated with increasing urbanization, environmental degradation, and climate change through the use of advanced technologies and data analytics. Access to urban green spaces is a k...

The paradigm of sustainable resilient cities underscores the importance of how to withstand and rapidly recover from natural disasters, pandemics, or chronic stresses associated with increasing urbanization, environmental degradation, and climate change through the use of advanced technologies and data analytics. Access to urban green spaces is a k...

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...

Transformative disaster resilience in times of climate change underscores the importance of reflexive governance, facilitation of socio-technical advancement, co-creation of knowledge, and innovative and bottom-up approaches. However, implementing these capacity-building processes by relying on census-based datasets and nomothetic (or top-down) app...

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...

Resilience in the urban context can be described as a continuum of absorptive, adaptive, and transformative capacities. The need to move toward a sustainable future and bounce forward after any disruption has led recent urban resilience initiatives to engage with the concept of transformative resilience when and where conventional and top-down resi...

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...

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...

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...