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	Urban Green Space Analysis	Urban Resilience Assessment
Field	Urban Studies	Urban Studies
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	2014	2016
Originator	Landscape ecology and environmental-justice scholarship (e.g. Wolch, Byrne & Newell)	Resilience-theory and urban-planning scholarship (synthesised by Meerow, Newell & Stults)
Type	Measurement of green space quantity, vegetation cover, and accessibility	Framework or composite index assessing a city's capacity to absorb and adapt to disturbance
Seminal source	Wolch, J. R., Byrne, J., & Newell, J. P. (2014). Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice: The challenge of making cities 'just green enough'. Landscape and Urban Planning, 125, 234–244.	Meerow, S., Newell, J. P., & Stults, M. (2016). Defining urban resilience: A review. Landscape and Urban Planning, 147, 38–49.
Aliases	Green Space Provision Analysis, Urban Greenness Assessment, Green Space Accessibility Analysis, NDVI Greenness Mapping	City Resilience Index, Urban Resilience Framework, Resilience Capacity Assessment, Disaster Resilience of Place
Related	4	4
Summary	Urban green space analysis measures how much vegetation and parkland a city provides and how fairly residents can reach it, combining remote-sensing greenness, per-capita provision, and accessibility into evidence for planning and public health. Satellite vegetation indices such as NDVI map greenness pixel by pixel; per-capita ratios benchmark provision against standards; and gravity or threshold accessibility measures show who lives within reach of a park. As Wolch, Byrne and Newell argued, the analysis is inseparable from environmental justice — green space is unevenly distributed, and its provision must be designed to be 'just green enough' without driving displacement.	Urban resilience assessment evaluates how well a city can absorb, adapt to, and recover from shocks such as floods, earthquakes and pandemics and from chronic stresses such as poverty and ageing infrastructure. Most assessments are framework-driven composite indices: they define resilience dimensions — infrastructural, social, economic, ecological and institutional — gather indicators for each, normalise and weight them, and aggregate to a resilience score or profile. Because, as Meerow, Newell and Stults documented, 'urban resilience' is defined in conflicting ways across the literature, every assessment must first take a position on what resilience means, for whom, and against which disturbances.