EDITORIAL article
Front. Built Environ.
Sec. Urban Science
Editorial: Enhancing Resilience in Complex Systems: Transdisciplinary and Systems Approaches to Sustainable Infrastructure and Urban Development
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Michael Max Bühler 1
- MG
Melanie Gall 2
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Nishara Fernando 3
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Pia Dr Hollenbach 1
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Dilanthi Amaratunga 4
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Mauricio Soto Rubio 5
1. Hochschule Konstanz University of Applied Sciences, Konstanz, Germany
2. Arizona State University, Tempe, United States
3. University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka
4. Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom
5. University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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Abstract
Before asking whether a system is resilient, one must agree on what qualities constitute resilience and how to measure them. Two contributions mark the methodological poles of this question. Al-Humaiqani and Four contributions examine how built networks perform under stress and how that performance governs 23 the access they deliver. Koren and Rus show that a city may retain most of its buildings after an earthquake 24 yet roughly a third of residents still lose service access: redundancy must be counted in services reached,
Summary
Keywords
built environment, coupled socio-technical systems, Critical infrastructure, Disaster Risk Reduction, resilience measurement, systemic resilience, Transdisciplinary research, Urban governance
Received
20 May 2026
Accepted
22 May 2026
Copyright
© 2026 Bühler, Gall, Fernando, Dr Hollenbach, Amaratunga and Soto Rubio. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
*Correspondence: Michael Max Bühler
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