A talk show at an international conference? It works! Guests Richard Friend (Institute of Social and Environmental Transition in Bangkok), Cassidy Johnson (University College London), Anna Sjödin (City of Karlstad, Sweden) and Aditya V. Bahadur (Overseas Development Institute, London) were interviewed by Cynthia Rosenzweig (Urban Climate Change Research Network), contributing from their different perspectives, from
This post is part of our live blog series from the Resilient Cities 2015 congress. For more live blogs, please click here. They are still young, yet they are well worth discussing: the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, which was born during the Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in
Let’s create a new indicator: the number of smart phone pictures taken in a session could tell us how interesting the slides are. This session on risk and vulnerability assessment tools ranked very highly. The facilitator of the session, Nico Tillie (Vice President of the World Council on City Data), gave a brief introduction to
This post is part of our live blog series from the Resilient Cities 2015 congress. For more live blogs, please click here. Feasibility gets 10 points, vulnerable population and ecosystem conservation 8, and evaluation and feedback 5: this was the outcome of a 15 minutes debate, which − in reality − would probably have lasted
This post is part of our live blog series from the Resilient Cities 2015 congress. For more live blogs, please click here. Imagine a city in coastal Vietnam, surrounded by low-lying areas and highly affected by upstream hydropower projects. The city wants to conduct a project on water resources, also involving neighboring provinces. It sounds
This post is part of our live blog series from the Resilient Cities 2015 congress. For more live blogs, please click here. Question: Where do you see the social in resilience? “When I think of resilience, I think of the community level. Communities only function well if the social and environmental and economic components
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