Lorenzo is Director of the International Master Degree in City Resilience Design and Management and Chair of the Urban Resilience Research Network (URNet) at the International University of Catalonia (UIC Barcelona). With a background in urban and regional planning, environmental policy, and urban geography, his research and teaching activities critically address the governance and planning processes related to city resilience governance. Interested in the complex relationship between urban resilience and sustainability, he is particularly concerned about the nowadays normative application of resilience in cities, and the emergence of unaccounted trade-offs among social, environmental, or spatial and temporal aspects of urban resilience. After having worked for the European Environment Agency (EEA), he developed case study research in Mexico, Bolivia, Morocco, Europe, and Asia, publishing more than 25 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals, while supervising several PhD and master's students from different universities.
