Marta Carla Bottero

Cities are afflicted by different stresses and shocks that make urban systems exposed to a high l...evel of uncertainty. Global community is interested in enhancing urban resilience to make cities able to respond and adapt to these circumstances.

Urban resilience is an emerging approach to planning in cities. In last few decades, this concept has been also used as fundamental principle to set up urban development strategies. Urban resilience is a multi-dimensional and dynamic phenomenon and applied to urban planning it leads to cities being considered as complex socio-economic systems.

Renewable energy resources and energy-efficient technologies, as well as building retrofitting, a...re only some of the possible strategies that can achieve more sustainable cities and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

This paper aims to assess the territorial resilience of a socio-ecological system through an inno...vative integrated evaluation framework to aid the decision-making process in the planning of transformation scenarios.

When speaking about sustainability in urban and territorial transformations, many dimensions hav...e to be taken into account, thus asking for integrated approaches able to support complex decision-making processes.

During the last decade, the concept of urban resilience has been increasingly implemented in urban planning, with the main aim to design urban development strategies. Urban resilience is a multi-dimensional and dynamic concept. When applied to urban planning, it consists of studying cities as complex socio-economic systems. Municipalities are currently working to undertake appropriate actions to enrich the resilience of cities. Moreover, several difficulties concern the evaluation of the impacts over time of the strategies designed to enhance urban resilience.

The present paper deals with the investigation of the effects of climate change in the urban systems. The methodology consists in the employment of an MCDA approach, in the form of a system of multidimensional indicators for calculating a multidimensional index of Urban Vulnerability (UVI) as an indirect measure of the urban resilience. Part of the indicators has been processed through the software RClimdex for investigating climate extremes.