“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…
Reality Check Workshops Preview: Resilience in Da Nang, Can Tho and Bangkok
Impacts from climate change are already being experienced worldwide and are only projected to continue: extreme weather events with higher…
From Agenda 21 to COP21: Addressing resilience in cities and informal settlements
By Omar Siddique, Senior Urban Specialist, Cities Alliance Chapter 7 on ‘human settlements’, which emerged from the first Rio Conference…
Building Resilience in Informal Settlements
Building resilience in cities should enhance the quality of life for all residents. Yet resilience planning, like urban development, has…
TAPplications: The Ecologist City of Jambi, Indonesia
This blog series presents some of the applications to the Transformative Actions Program, to show you how cities are “tapping”…