By helping cities avoid losses, and citizens avoid sliding into poverty, improved urban resilience can safeguard development gains for future generations. Resilient cities promote sustainable development, wellbeing and inclusive growth. Walsh michael berkowitz mayor president city of boston 100 resilient cities. This paper attempts to link emergent theory with the vision of a resilient city as featured in the shortlisted posters. Bridging the humanitarian and development divide the main outcome of the campus is the consensus that planning for and building resilient cities is a collaborative process that requires the expertise and participation of humanitarian, development, and local actors as well as the communities they.
The rockefeller foundation continues to support the 100rc member cities and chief resilience officers through a new grant to the global resilient cities network. The evolution of urban resilience shaping the debate on urban resilience and adaptation to raise global awareness and help local governments tackle their resilience challenges, iclei launched the resilient cities congress series in 2010, bringing local resilience to a world stage for the first time. The worlds urban population is expected to double from 3. Resilient cities as an emergent but ill defined framework in the last several years, the concept of resilient cities has inspired a substantial number of books and articles, and become the organizing concept for mul tiple academic conferences, research centres, reports and initiatives by major foundations, the united nations and the world bank. All cities have inclusive polices, projects, and structures that will deliver climate resilient cities. Economically resilient towns, cities, and regions adapt to changing conditions and even reinvent their economic bases if necessary. Two recent analytical frameworks developed by da silva et. In 2014 the city of berkeley city, along with our neighboring cities of oakland and san francisco, was one of the first 32 cities selected to participate in 100 resilient cities 100rcpioneered by the rockefeller foundation.
Cities are supported to diagnose water risks and to design and upgrade their water systems for resilience through investments in managing water use. Concept of resilient cities the discourse of disaster risk reduction has shifted in recent years to the concept of resilience, defined in various ways. Resilient cities responding to the crash, peak oil and. It was founded on the belief that businessasusual models of reactive planning and.
Small water enterprises providing safe drinking water for resilient cities 2 we would like to express our sincere gratitude to sangita ghalay, head of corporate social responsibility csr, honeywell india, for funding support that enabled safe water network india to create this report on small water enterprises for resilient cities. Resilient cities for children resilient cities is one of the four interrelated domains of change identified within wvs cities for children cfc framework1. Open european day at resilient cities 2014 conference report. A primer on reducing vulnerabilities to disasters climate resilient cities the world bank washington, d. Twentythree cities in the region have jointed the 100 resilient cities network, and are applying systems approaches to infrastructure planning and investment to increase the resilience of their communities. The three cities met for elaborate discussions at the one conference on october 2nd in the hague. Implementing the sendai framework for drr at the local level, is a threeyear initiative 20162019 supported by the european commission to improve understanding and capacity to address. The inputs from the consultations held in 20182019 have informed the initial design of the successor of the mcr campaign tentatively known as the making cities resilient 2030 mcr2030. To meet the goals of building a resilient city, we will need to commit.
The oecd is investigating how cities can increase their resilience. Resilient cities responding to the crash, peak oil and climate change by peter newman professor of sustainability curtin university australia pbcusp alliance. The resilient cities congress series was launched in may 2010 by iclei to. The cities of the hague, atlanta and greater manchester shared best practices and lessons learned on how to prevent, respond to and recover from a cyberattack that impacts the city. Concepts and strategies for coping with climate change and environmental risk yosef jabareen. Making cities resilient 2030 mcr2030 initial proposal.
Looking beyond 2020, there is an urgent need to accelerate the progress of resilience building at the local level, to bring cities on to the resilience. Page 2 of 7 resilient cities congress secretariat, iclei, world secretariat, bonn, germany, phone. Small communities often are unable to offer the same level of resources and incentives as larger cities, which makes it difficult for them to compete. A framework for empowering cities in face of heterogeneous risk factors. This global network, pioneered by the rockefeller foundation, helps member cities around the world become more resilient to the physical, social, and economic challenges of the 21st century. This publication should be cited as iclei 2019 resilient cities, thriving. Toward sustainable and climate resilient cities and regions. Important elements of drivers industries are diverse to generate growth a diversified industrial base is a key driver for a resilient economy. For united cities and local governments and the global taskforce of local and regional governments, bringing these constructive inputs to the global.
Working hand in hand with the 2030 agenda, the sendai framework for disaster risk reduction 20152030 is the roadmap for how we make our communities safer and more resilient. How small towns and cities can use local assets to rebuild. The resilient cities 2012 competition launched by arup and ewbuk surfaced a wide range of examples and perspectives on what resilient cities look like. Faculty of architecture and town planning, technionisrael institute of technology, haifa 32000, israel. Pdf beyond smart cities, welcome to resilient cities positive. There remains however, a lack of disaggregated datasets between the urban and. Bridging the humanitarian and development divide the main outcome of the campus is the consensus that planning for and building resilient cities is a collaborative process that requires the expertise and participation of humanitarian, development, and local actors as well as the communities they serve. Resilient cities, resilient lives learning from the 100rc network. Proceedings of the conference measuring the resilience of cities.
After more than six successful years of growing and catalyzing the urban resilience movement, the 100 resilient cities 100rc program was concluded in july 2019. Adapted from oecd 2014a, overview paper on resilient economies and societies, meeting of the oecd council at ministerial level, 67 may 2014, paris. Above all, this concept note aims to introduce urban resilience to cities that are in. It is our hope that this work will lead to a resilient boston that serves as a model for cities to study and learn fromboth within and beyond the 100 resilient cities network. How can we improve urban resilience with open data. Building resilient cities urban growth is projected to increase significantly in the coming decades.