... Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Flooding Urban areas Resilience indicators Systematic review Disaster Climate change is currently a global issue that affects human survival and sustainable societal development (Shao et al., 2021...

.... Regional spatial planning and urban design can help to reduce the vulnerability of communities to these risks. The purpose of this paper is to report on the development of an assessment tool, which highlights climate change risks and vulnerabilities in urban areas, and the results of pilot and user testing...

...). It has been established that the impact of hydro‐meteorological disasters is much worse in urban areas. Events in the past decade have highlighted the various vulnerabilities of urban areas to climate‐related hazards. The flash flood of December 1999 in North Venezuela killed 30,000 people mostly...

...) at the national level, and Regional Disaster Management Committee and District Disaster Management Committee at the regional and district levels (NADMO, 2005). Ghana Earthquakes Risk management Urban areas Developing countries What we gain is the peace of mind that when the earthquake comes, we...