Dear Narjiss Satour and co-authors,

thank you very much again for submitting your
manuscript 'Spatialised flood resilience measurement in rapidly urbanized coastal areas with complex semi-arid environment in Northern Morocco' to NHESS.

Two referee reports are available which raise major concerns regarding the current version of your study which
relate mainly to a critical discussion of your approach, data and outcomes as well as more fundamentally to the clarity of definition for the term 'resilience' used in your study. The reviewers make very good points regarding potential misunderstandings if the terminology is not clear. Also, the state of the art of frameworks and indicators, as well as the motivation and objective of your own approach for resilience indicators, are not sufficiently described.
Further, you need to extend your discussion about the outcomes, plausibility, and implications for the study region and beyond. For the reader, it is important to understand what is the added value of your work in comparison to other frameworks. Accordingly, major revisions are needed.

The reviewers provided detailed reports highlighting all the points you should address in the revisions.
According to your responses, I am very positive about the new version of the manuscript and that you will take up their remarks.

As a next step, please upload the revised marked up (track changes) version of your manuscript. Additionally, you have to upload the new version of the manuscript.

If you have any question regarding the procedure or interpretation of the comments, please do not hesitate to contact me for clarification.

Please also note that this decision does not necessarily imply acceptance of the manuscript in the journal NHESS, and it still will depend on your reply (and subsequent edits to your manuscript) to referees comments, as well as on the reviewer comments of the revised version.

I look forward to receiving the revised version of your manuscript.

Best regards
Kai Schröter

Dear Narjiss Satour and co-authors,
thank you very much for again for the submission of your manuscript on 'Spatialised flood resilience measurement in rapidly urbanized coastal areas with complex semi-arid environment in Northern Morocco' to NHESS'.
After the evaluation of the major revisions of your manuscript, two referee reports are now available for this version of the manuscript.

As you can see from these reports the reviewers are mostly satisfied with your revisions. However, some minor points remain open as stressed by the reviewers. These comments include a number of useful suggestions to improve your manuscript and make it stronger.

I kindly ask you to take the specific comments of both reviewers into thorough consideration and rework the manuscript accordingly. Therefore, I decide on minor revisions.
Please provide a revised marked up (track changes) version of your manuscript to make clear how you include the changes in response to the referee reports.

I look forward to receiving the revised version of your manuscript.

Best regards
Kai Schröter

Dear Narjiss Satour and co-authors,
thank you for providing the answers to the referee comments and a revised version of your manuscript 'Spatialised flood resilience measurement in rapidly urbanized coastal areas with complex semi-arid environment in Northern Morocco'.

I think that you addressed all referee comments sufficiently and implemented the necessary changes to the manuscript. I am happy to accept it for publication in NHESS. Congratulations!

While reading through your manuscript I spotted some grammar issues (only highlighted in the conclusion section of the annotated PDF)
Also please check if you can improve the quality and readability of the Figures. Particularly information given in figures 3 to 6 is hardly readable.

Kind Regards,
Kai Schröter