Urban resilience - Habitat III Issue Paper

This issue paper aims to contribute to the goals of the New Urban Agenda by improving understanding of the drivers of urban resilience, enable a city system to withstand and recover quickly from multiple and varied shocks and stresses, and improve its performance over time.

The key drivers of action proposed in this paper are the following (p. 8):

• leveraging city planning instruments to reduce existing risk and prevent the creation of new risks and at the same time prepare for climate and disaster risk;
• developing or improving existing policies (including National Urban Policies) that promote compact, socially inclusive, better integrated and connected cities, which foster sustainable urban development;
• developing mechanisms/instruments to promote coherence across systems, sectors and organizations related to their policies, plans, programs, processes and investments in urban resilience.