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The “nexus” approach has recently been widely interpreted as a groundbreaking vision for dealing with existing and emerging environmental challenges. Therefore, we will focus here on the potential for extending the nexus approach to some of the factors threatening the future development of urban areas and, namely, to individual and coupled hazards, climate change and environmental degradation. These factors are currently faced in different ways by individual institutions and policy developments that are still far apart, despite the fact they interplay and overlap at different levels and would require cross-sectoral strategies and measures to coalesce. This contribution will first explore the potential of the nexus approach to shed light on the complex interactions among natural, technological and na-tech risks, climate-related impacts and ecosystems’ degradation. Then, the need to develop an integrated knowledge base for more effective interventions to drive cities towards a sustainable and resilient development will be discussed.
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Galderisi, A. (2017). Nexus Approach to Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Adaptation and Ecosystems’ Management: New Paths for a Sustainable and Resilient Urban Development. In: Colucci, A., Magoni, M., Menoni, S. (eds) Peri-Urban Areas and Food-Energy-Water Nexus. Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41022-7_2
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