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Resilience is about people, not technocrats
Resilient Cities Congress

Resilience is about people, not technocrats

ByGlobal Communications Team July 6, 2016June 3, 2025

How to translate resilience theory into actions within urban contexts? This was the main question addressed by Resilient Cities 2016…

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“Transformative optimism” towards a resilient world
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“Transformative optimism” towards a resilient world

ByGlobal Communications Team July 6, 2016June 3, 2025

“Transformative optimism” underlies the actions that local and subnational governments are taking to build a low-carbon and resilient world. It also…

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Resilient Cities Congress

Resilient Cities 2015 Interviews: Jerry Velasquez

ByDominic Kotas June 24, 2015June 3, 2025

We conducted a series of interviews at our Resilient Cities 2015 congress. Here, Jerry Velasquez of the United Nations Office for…

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Resilient Cities Congress

B3: Disaster Risk Reduction in Theory and Practice

ByTheresa Zimmerman June 15, 2015June 3, 2025

This post is part of our live blog series from the Resilient Cities 2015 congress. For more live blogs, please…

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A1: “Selecting the Spicy Indicators”

ByDominic Kotas June 8, 2015June 3, 2025

This post is part of our live blog series from the Resilient Cities 2015 congress. For more live blogs, please…

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Opening Plenary: A Glocal Focus

ByDominic Kotas June 8, 2015June 3, 2025

This post is part of our live blog series from the Resilient Cities 2015 congress. For more live blogs, please…

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