This issue of Southasiadisasters.net focuses on the important theme of 'Managing Urban Risks in HFA2'. It highlights policy discourses and institutional mechanisms such as frameworks for city resilience and rapid vulnerability profiling that will help manage urban risk. The important themes focused upon in this issue range from addressing risk in informal settlements to the challenges of urban resilience in South Asia; and from the need for climate resilient urban development to the role of governments in engendering urban resilience and sustainability. Insightful and incisive, this issue of Southasiadisasters.net is aims to emphasize sustainable solutions to the challenges of urban risk through a robust HFA2.