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…
“For the urban poor, nothing trumps location”
More than 200 million people in Africa live in slums, making it a major issue for cities growing at a rapid…
Green and blue infrastructure: a solution with multiple benefits
by David Lammers, MSc Environmental Studies and Sustainability Studies, Lund University Water systems have a crucial function in many cities. Rivers…
Is communication the greatest barrier to unlocking climate finance?
Financing resilient urban development is an essential tool in achieving global sustainability targets. Yet there is a lack of communication…
Trees make cities cooler
From Chicago to Paris, Ottawa or Montreal, cities look for solutions to cope with hotter summers and climate change adverse…
Water resilience: why it’s important and how to fund it
by Lauren Stabler, Resilient Cities 2016 social media volunteer This afternoon’s panel session focused particularly on the adverse effects of…
Resilience is about people, not technocrats
How to translate resilience theory into actions within urban contexts? This was the main question addressed by Resilient Cities 2016…
Resilience-building: how to include the urban poor
by David Lammers, MSc Environmental Studies and Sustainability Studies, Lund University “Resilience is also required to respond to bad policy decisions”….
“Transformative optimism” towards a resilient world
“Transformative optimism” underlies the actions that local and subnational governments are taking to build a low-carbon and resilient world. It also…