Table 1.

The criteria and resilience discourses of the Resilience-based Policy reviews.

Article title, name of author/s/and year of publication	Objectives of the article	Policy documents reviewed	Criteria/approaches to resilience evaluation used	Thematic areas	Extracts
Are we planning for resilient cities in Ghana?: An analysis of policy and planners' perspectives (Poku-Boansi & Cobbinah, 2018).	•Are national planning legislation and policies that use urban resilience as an organizing concept driven by local understanding and situations, and are they likely to build resilient cities? •Do urban planners' perspectives influence urban resilience efforts? •Do national planning legislation and policies achieve balance by supporting all urban resilience principles, or do national planning legislation and policies narrowly advance some principles more than others?	Five national planning policy documents framed by resilience concepts	•Adaptive capacity, •Inclusiveness/participation, Social equity and learning, Spatial Planning	Participation, Adaptability,	Focus: Cities in Ghana. Target policy areas: •Focused on policies where resilience concepts are well embraced. •Evaluated the extent to which policy documents enhance or diminish some principles/criteria above others. •Did not consider criteria that take urban as SESs and holistically apply the principles.
Spatial Planning For Urban Resilience: Assessing Current Prospects Through A Multilevel Approach And A Use Case In Northern Greece (Angelidou, M. et al. (2018).	Aimed to assess whether and to what extent the western coastal front of Thessaloniki, Greece, currently a partially developed area, features elements of resilience and what opportunities can be harnessed to this end.	Sectoral planning documents: Urban, regional, transportation and environmental planning and management frameworks	•Redundancy •Modularity, •Buffering, •Connectivity, •Existence of legally binding land-use or zoning plans	Integrated consideration of economic, social, and environmental dimensions of resilience	Urban: Thessaloniki, Coastal city in Greece. Target policy areas: sectoral policies were expressively analyzed concerning urban resilience lenses mentioned and Strive to find out whether the attributes of urban resilience are practically realized at a spatial scale.
The Evaluation of Findings and Future of Resilience Thinking in Planning (Eraydin and Taş an-Kok, 2013).	•Introduce the urban problems of the case study area. •Analyze how the main planning documents approach these problems •Undertake a critical appraisal of the applicability and usefulness of the resilience concept.	A total of four policies with the following major objectives were reviewed: two with financial issues, one legal issue, one social issue promoting the attraction of new residents.	•Recovery •Capital building	Policies, Physical dimension of resilience with particular focus on old buildings and The social dimension of resilience: the Population growth rate in urban areas, Levels of education, income disparity.	Urban: Baixa District, Oporto, Portugal. Targeted policy areas: •Urban rehabilitation policy discourses
A resilience-based policy evaluation framework: Application to European rural development policies (Schouten et al., 2012).	Evaluate to what extent rural development policies contribute to the resilience of rural areas.	Seven Rural Development policy documents	•Diversity, •Variability, •Modularity, •Acknowledging slow variables, •Tight feedbacks, •Social capital, innovation, •Overlap in governance and ecosystem services.	•Environmental Policies, •Water quality •Environmental quality •Innovation •Energy	Rural: Netherlands Targeted policy areas •Policy documents with resilience concepts are overarching. •Worked heavily on rural areas as SESs component and evaluated the document in an integrated and holistic manner.