Urban risk and planning

This knowledge paper examines how spatial and territorial planning can help operationalise Risk Informed Development (RID).

How Anabella Ullo, Nidia Molina and the residents of Barrio 20 in Buenos Aires are changing the conversation around climate action.

This qualitative community-based study explores how people with disabilities in urban and suburban Bangladesh experience and cope with extreme heat through a decolonial framework that centers lived experiences and community knowledge.

This systematic review is the first to synthesize the evidence on resilience in sanitation systems. Findings show a big gap between identifying potential resilience-building measures and demonstrating how they contribute to resilience sanitation systems.

Research in Osaka shows that groundwater recovery can reverse land subsidence, helping coastal cities adapt to sea-level rise. The study also reveals how underground fault lines influence groundwater flow and patterns of land uplift.

This study models landslide susceptibility in eThekwini, South Africa, after the April 2022 floods, using Random Forest and SVM. Land use, elevation, NDVI, and lithology were key factors, with most housing located in low-susceptibility areas.

The combination of heat waves and drought markedly reduces the capacity of street trees to cool the air in Mediterranean cities.

Bangkok’s September flooding exposed a gap between forecasts and action: despite advance warnings, preparedness lagged. Lack of unified command to integrate information, coordinate agencies and guide timely decisions appears to have weakened the response.

Researchers compared rain barrels, rain gardens, and their combination to assess flood control, costs, and environmental benefits in residential areas.