Compare methods

	Urban Resilience Assessment	Urban Green Space Analysis
Field	Urban Studies	Urban Studies
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	2016	2014
Originator	Resilience-theory and urban-planning scholarship (synthesised by Meerow, Newell & Stults)	Landscape ecology and environmental-justice scholarship (e.g. Wolch, Byrne & Newell)
Type	Framework or composite index assessing a city's capacity to absorb and adapt to disturbance	Measurement of green space quantity, vegetation cover, and accessibility
Seminal source	Meerow, S., Newell, J. P., & Stults, M. (2016). Defining urban resilience: A review. Landscape and Urban Planning, 147, 38–49.	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.
Aliases	City Resilience Index, Urban Resilience Framework, Resilience Capacity Assessment, Disaster Resilience of Place	Green Space Provision Analysis, Urban Greenness Assessment, Green Space Accessibility Analysis, NDVI Greenness Mapping
Related	4	4
Summary	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.	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.