Digital-Intelligent Empowerment for Enhancing Urban Climate Resilience

With the intensification of global climate change and the frequent occurrence of extreme weather events, cities, as concentrated areas of population and economic activity, are increasingly vulnerable to climate impacts. Traditional response models struggle to address sudden and compound climate risks in a timely manner. In this context, digital-intelligent technologies, represented by big data, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and digital twins, are becoming key enabling tools for systematically enhancing urban climate resilience. Their core value lies in reshaping the paradigm of urban climate risk management through data-driven precise perception, intelligent analysis, and forward-looking decision-making, shifting the approach from passive response to proactive adaptation.

Digital-intelligent empowerment enhances urban climate resilience primarily across several dimensions: comprehensive and precise perception with dynamic monitoring, intelligent analysis and risk early warning, and coordinated response with smart regulation. Taking Shanghai as an example, the intelligent dispatch system for drainage facilities and its applications were introduced. This exploration demonstrates that digital-intelligent empowerment not only improves the efficiency of risk response but also promotes climate-adaptive transformation throughout the entire process of urban planning, construction, and management.

Nevertheless, digital-intelligent empowerment faces challenges such as data barriers, technological costs, the digital divide, and uncertainties inherent in the models themselves. In the future, it is essential to strengthen cross-departmental data sharing and standard interoperability, focus on the applicability and cost-effectiveness of technologies, ensure technological inclusiveness, and adhere to a systemic resilience-building path that integrates "digital-intelligent tools" with institutional design, ecological infrastructure, and social participation.