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Climate resilience in development planning: Experiences in Colombia and Ethiopia

Posted on: 1 May 2014
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This report discusses the current state of knowledge on how to build climate resilience in developing countries. This report discusses the current state of knowledge on how to build climate resilience in developing countries. It argues that climate-resilient development requires moving beyond the climate-proofing of existing development pathways, to consider economic development objectives and resilience priorities in parallel.

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City resilience framework

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This framework, supported by The Rockefeller Foundation and developed by Arup’s International Development team gives cities a tool to understand their resilience; to shape urban planning, practice and investment.

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100 Resilient Cities Centennial Challenge

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The Rockefeller Foundation launched the 100 Resilient Cities Centennial Challenge in 2013 to enable 100 cities to better address the increasing shocks and stresses of the 21st century. Nearly 400 cities across six continents applied to be among the 100 cities selected to receive technical support and resources to improve their urban resilience over three years. This website provides updates on the Challenge and what the Rockefeller Foundation is doing to strengthen urban resilience.

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Learning from Typhoon Haiyan: risk and resilience in emerging secondary cities

Posted on: 30 April 2014
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The worst storm to make landfall in recorded history hit Tacloban and other Philippine cities, each of which had no more than 250,000 residents yet which had to face an emergency operations challenge daunting even for the world’s largest mega-cities. The author of this blog learns how Tacloban and other secondary cities can improve their ability to cope.

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Applying resilience thinking: Seven principles for building resilience in social-ecological systems

Posted on: 30 April 2014
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The Stockholm Resilience Centre has published this report which presents a set of seven principles that are considered crucial for building resilience in social-ecological systems and discusses how these principles can be practically applied. The seven principles are: maintain diversity and redundancy;  manage connectivity; manage slow variables and feedbacks; foster complex adaptive systems thinking; encourage learning; broaden participation; and promote polycentric governance systems. Each principle is presented along with an example of how it has been applied.

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Close to home: Subnational strategies for climate compatible development

Posted on: 30 April 2014
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The Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) and ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability have published a paper which outlines successful strategies for climate resilience and low carbon development pursued by communities and leaders in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

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100 Resilient Cities Centennial Challenge

Posted on: 11 April 2014
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The Rockefeller Foundation launched the 100 Resilient Cities Centennial Challenge in 2013 to enable 100 cities to better address the increasing shocks and stresses of the 21st century. Nearly 400 cities across six continents applied to be among the 100 cities selected to receive technical support and resources to improve their urban resilience over three years. In addition to membership in the newly formed 100 Resilient Cities Network, the selected cities will receive support from the Rockefeller Foundation to create and implement a resilience plan and to hire a Chief Resilience Officer (CRO) to oversee the resilience strategy. The first class of 32 cities was announced on December 3, 2013, selected by judges with unique expertise on tools and strategies that make a city better prepared to face natural and manmade disaster.

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Contested urbanism in Dharavi: Writings and projects for the resilient city

Posted on: 2 April 2014
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The book highlights field research and studio-based projects on Dharavi, Mumbai conducted with the Bartlett Development Planning Unit students from 2009 to 2012. The collection of essays, photography, and student work illustrates both the theoretical underpinnings and pedagogical ethos of the MSc Building and Urban Design in Development. This publication draws from first-hand experience, research, and critical practices that have sought to investigate a 175 hectares swatch of land in the middle of Mumbai that is home to over 1 million inhabitants.  It is a collection of short and long essays, drawings and diagrams, photography, and visualisations on what is known as Dharavi.

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Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development

Posted on: 1 April 2014
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Policymakers and practitioners need to better understand the relationships between climate adaptation and development. The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and partners have developed a framework called Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development (TAMD) to do just this. The TAMD initiative is taking varied approaches in Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nepal, Cambodia and Pakistan to evaluate this relationship at local to national levels. In both Pakistan and Ethiopia, assessments are being made of how well development interventions enable people in remote areas to adapt to a more variable climate.

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What makes a city resilient?

Posted on: 19 March 2014
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While many point to robust disaster defences, others claim social cohesion is what makes a city great. The author of this article suggests they are both right, and highlights new projects which aim to unearth dozens of other factors.

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