Conclusion

This research constructs a theoretical framework and uses an empirical case to explore the potential for nurturing urban resilience under the current urban management based on individual resilience evaluation and its limiting factors identification. Current performance of individual resilience is framed into the capacities of coping and adaptation. Personal perceptions of urban flooding, the physical environment and social environment are focused on for they influence individual resilience performance based on the human–environment interaction theory. Urban management is assumed a political intervention, which can enhance individual resilience performance by changing residents’ behavior to a resilience-oriented manner.