Dammam metropolitan area: Advancing the pursuit of urban resilience

Abstract

Urban resilience has become part of the policy orthodoxy in managing climate change and addressing urban sustainability inadequacies worldwide. Several researchers from multiple fields have primed this policy via empirical studies. In this paper, we profile Dammam Metropolitan Area (DMA), a Middle Eastern city in Saudi Arabia, to argue that expanding research on urban resilience to key perspectives and transformative strategies in less researched regions can help ‘diversify’ understandings of urban resilience in ways that advance and consolidate urban sustainability in critical urban studies. We show that urban resilience has been less conceived in land cover changes, land surface temperatur..