Outlook: All Roads Lead to Paris (Via All Other Cities)

This post is part of our live blog series from the Resilient Cities 2015 congress. For more live blogs, please click here. With the COP21 in Paris swiftly approaching, climate was the overarching theme of the outlook plenary of the Resilient Cities 2015 congress – just as it has been throughout the conference, influencing the many 

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F4/G4: Hand-ups for Urban Food in the Global South

This post is part of our live blog series from the Resilient Cities 2015 congress. For more live blogs, please click here. Even though the demand for urban agriculture increasingly stems from relatively well-off communities, the common denominator in today’s discussions on resilient urban food systems was that the potential for transformative socioeconomic change may 

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E4: Disease control lessons: Lots of Work to Do

This post is part of our live blog series from the Resilient Cities 2015 congress. For more live blogs, please click here. Cities are climate change hotspots and are therefore very vulnerable to climate-related disease. This session explored how the three Asian cities of Dhaka (Bangladesh), Surat City (India), and Kaohsiung City (Chinese Taipei) have 

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C2: Going with the Flow for Urban Resilience

This post is part of our live blog series from the Resilient Cities 2015 congress. For more live blogs, please click here. Viewing the city as a system of urban flows – is this an up-and-coming concept of value to all resilience practitioners and city authorities, or just another buzzword difficult to operationalize? Even though one of the 

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Voices in the Corridor: 9 June 2015

This post is part of our live blog series from the Resilient Cities 2015 congress. For more live blogs, please click here. Question: If you could make one change in every city tomorrow, what would it be? “I would make sure that city authorities understand how relevant it is for planning and resilience to listen to 

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B2: City of Tshwane: How to be a low carbon, resource efficient and climate resilient city

This post is part of our live blog series from the Resilient Cities 2015 congress. For more live blogs, please click here. This session began with some information on how the City of Tshwane, South Africa – national winner of the 2014/15 WWF Earth Hour City Challenge – is using innovative ways to achieve green buildings, such as: 

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A3: Private sector cooperation in Piura, Santo Domingo, and Nacala

This post is part of our live blog series from the Resilient Cities 2015 congress. For more live blogs, please click here. One of the recurring subjects of a session on how three cities have been working within the USAID CRIS program to enhance resilience (especially towards sea-level rise and precipitation/drought extremes) was how to include the private 

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