What Makes A City Resilient?

These are questions Thomas Campanella has attempted to answer in his book, The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster, the guest this week on Smart City. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment takes a look at our planet's resilience from an environmental perspective. Its director, Walter Reid, talks about the science behind the opportunities and challenges of ecosystem change.

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