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Cities are dynamic coupled complexes integrating technological, social, and natural systems, while functioning as socio-ecological systems deeply embedded in technological networks. Drawing on the interactions between technological elements and socio-natural components, cities continuously deliver essential functions—including housing, food supply, transportation, and recreation—to sustain residents’ daily livelihoods and activities. Meanwhile, urban areas are confronted with increasingly diverse disturbances, ranging from natural hazards (e.g., floods, droughts, and earthquakes) to human-induced crises (e.g., terrorist attacks, cyberattacks, epidemics, and safety accidents). Such disturbances impinge on cities as dynamic, complex systems, thereby posing a series of challenges to the sustained provision of their core functions.

In pursuit of research on urban resilience and sustainable development, scholars are increasingly recognizing these challenges from a dynamic perspective of complex systems. Owing to the continuous interactive relationships between urban physical and social elements, the operational status of cities under diverse disturbances, as well as the various functions provided on this basis, undergo unpredictable or unforeseen changes. However, significant gaps remain in terms of actionable knowledge, tools, and policies for managing such dynamic, complex urban systems amid multiple disturbances. How can we construct a generalizable analytical framework for urban resilience through a physical–social interaction lens? Given the inherent wicked nature of complex urban systems, how should we balance trade-offs among strategies aimed at enhancing resilience? From a dynamic perspective of complex systems, in what ways can we be assisted in formulating adaptive management policies?

In response to these challenges, this special issue focuses on theories, methodologies, and applications for enhancing the physical and social resilience of urban areas in the face of multiple shocks or stresses. Key topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Methodologies for measuring urban resilience and its enhancement strategies from a socio-physical interaction perspective
• Conceptual frameworks for enhancing urban resilience in the face of the inherently wicked nature of complex systems
• Strategy selection and trade-off methodologies for enhancing urban resilience under multiple shocks or stresses
• Policy support toolkits (e.g., spatial, fiscal, and financial policies) for enhancing urban resilience
• Multi-stakeholder needs and the equity of resilience-enhancing strategies in the context of environmental change

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