This post is part of our live blog series from the Resilient Cities 2015 congress. For more live blogs, please click here. The fragile lagoon of Porto-Novo, Benin, which has unique biodiversity, is regularly subjected to flooding. Zinsou Daniel Hounkpevi (Head of Technical Services, Benin) highlighted the extreme flooding of 2010 and the struggle to
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
Is it better to use green infrastructure solutions than gray ones for enhancing resilience? You might think that the answer is obvious: green infrastructure solutions are the best option. In fact, it’s not so clear-cut. Different circumstances require different actions, depending on the finance that is available and the kind of territories in question. For
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
This post is part of our live blog series from the Resilient Cities 2015 congress. For more live blogs, please click here. Taro Island is, according to Shannon McGuire of Buckley Vann Town Planning Consultants, “an inspiring example of a community who are getting on with the job of improving their resiliency to climate change
This post is part of our live blog series from the Resilient Cities 2015 congress. For more live blogs, please click here. You’re sat in a room at a university. The air conditioning is running at full throttle, and it’s so chilly that the students are wearing sweaters and scarves. Next door is a server
This post is part of our live blog series from the Resilient Cities 2015 congress. For more live blogs, please click here. Question: What is your favorite example of adaptation? “I find producing electricity from organic waste in the cities to be a good adaptation strategy. It’s a dual benefit of making the city cleaner
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
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
This post is part of our live blog series from the Resilient Cities 2015 congress. For more live blogs, please click here. The opening panel of the finance forum provided a variety of examples of how to overcome common barriers to financing urban adaptation and resilience. From city case studies to the support tools of
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