Cities and their food: a relationship below the radar?
by David Lammers, MSc Environmental Studies and Sustainability Studies, Lund University The goal of making cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable is…
When city met finance: how to fund and build resilient infrastructure in emerging economies
Seventy-five percent of the infrastructure that will exist in 2050 has not been built yet, according to Global Infrastructure Basel….
A resilient city doesn’t stop at flood gates
by Lauren Stabler, PhD student at the Global Sustainability Institute, Anglia Ruskin University In this afternoon’s session “Inclusive governance: partnering with…
Know Your City: Linking community slum data to urban resilience
Kampala, Uganda, is home to 1.39 million slum dwellers. Not long ago, these communities were not even considered a part…
How to build resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa
by David Lammers, MSc Environmental Studies and Sustainability Studies, Lund University While the challenges of increasing urbanization are often most prominently…
China’s New Opportunity: Water Funds
By Daniel Shemie, Kari Vigerstol, Mu Quan, Wang Longzhu The Nature Conservancy What do the Chinese cities of Harbin, Ningbo,…
The Significance of the Melaka Citizens’ Pledge
The 2nd Resilience Cities Asia-Pacific congress came to a close yesterday, here in the beautiful and historic city of Melaka…
High Level Segment at RCAP 2016 Reasserts Role of Cities in Achieving Sustainability
After two days of deliberations that reaffirmed the importance of building resilience in cities and promoting initiatives from city mayors…
A3: Resilient Investment – Targeting is Good, Embedding is Better
As a city, if you want to address resilience, where do you start? At the Resilient Cities Asia-Pacific A3 panel…
Building Back after the Kaohsiung Gas Explosions
Located in southern Taiwan, Kaohsiung is Taiwan’s second largest city by population (2.77 million) and largest municipality by land area…
Mobile Workshop: Sipjaseong Energy Self-reliant Community
Post by Abrina Williams Today Mobile Workshop participants at the ICLEI World Congress visited the Sipjaseong energy self-reliant community in…
Understanding the linkages between urbanization, vulnerability and risks
Understanding urban risks is extremely vital in paving the path towards building resilience in cities, especially in the Asia-Pacific region…