Impacts from climate change are already being experienced worldwide and are only projected to continue: extreme weather events with higher frequency and intensity, higher precipitation in some areas, drought in other areas, rising sea level and more. Cities are often at the most risk to impacts of climate change due to their frequently coastal locations
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
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
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