As the core carrier of urban risk buffer, the insurance industry can effectively improve the resilience of society after disasters and the efficiency of economic restart, enhance social resilience, and inject continuous impetus into the construction of resilient cities.  By using panel data from 2014 to 2023, we employ the entropy method and the coupling coordination model to measure the coordination degree between insurance development and urban resilience. The results demonstrate that: (1) The coordination degree between urban resilience and insurance development in this region fluctuates and declines, and there are noticeable gradient differences among cities. (2) The level of urban resilience and insurance development in the region is in the stage of dynamic optimization, and the overall pattern of mild imbalance, reluctant coordination, and primary coordination coexists. This paper puts forward corresponding policy suggestions on how to improve urban resilience for sustainable development.

Cong Wang, Rongqin Shi. The Coupling and Coordination of Insurance Development and Urban Resilience in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Urban Agglomeration. Academic Journal of Environment & Earth Science (2026), Vol. 8, Issue 1: 32-39. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJEE.2026.080105.

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