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Displaying 60 of about 465 resultsThis review of existing literature provides real estate practitioners and investors support in understanding the physical risks arising from climate change with a specific focus on how these risks affect commercial real estate asset values and prices. It also offers recommendations for next steps by market actors, policy makers and researchers connected…
This session presents the relevance and challenges of insurance mechanisms in supporting vulnerable communities in urban areas to cope with impacts from more intense and frequent extreme events. It exposes the rationale of insurance for disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation as well as lessons learnt from past projects to enhance new programmes.…
Webinar Recording
Overview
Tsunamis pose a massive threat to lives, livelihoods, homes, businesses and a community’s overall economic, social, and environmental wellbeing and resilience. While rare, when they do occur, tsunamis are the deadliest of all hazards. Over the past 100 years, 58 tsunamis have claimed more than 260,000 lives. This…
MCR2030 is a place where cities can find guidance and support to enhance understanding on risk reduction and resilience, to improve strategic planning to reduce risk and build resilience, and to take actions and progress along the resilience roadmap. It is a unique cross-stakeholder initiative for improving local resilience throug…
State bill would set up fund to help cities buy climate change-endangered seaside properties and then rent them out until deemed uninhabitable.
Chronic flooding seen threatening 300,000 homes by 2045
California bill could help chart 'managed retreat' roadmap
Critics say buyout plan would bail out wealthy homeowners
By Carey L. Biron
WASHINGTON -…
Asia-Pacific is the most disaster-prone region in the world, and increasingly, those disasters are occurring in urban settings. Cities face multiple hazards that threaten their social and economic development, these include storms, floods, heatwaves, earthquakes, and of course, pandemics.
Co-created by 11 international organizations and city netw…
Please join us for the 11th session of 2021 Cities on the Frontline, jointly organized by Resilient Cities Network & the World Bank. We will welcome Anouk Roeling, Program Officer for Resilient The Hague and Eleni Myrivili, Senior Advisor to the Mayor of Athens on Resilience and Sustainability and Former Deputy Mayor, Atlantic Council Senior Fellow,…
This webinar is focused on scenario planning method and application in disaster risk and management of Critical Infrastructure.
Speakers
Prof. Dr. Einhard Schmidt-Kallert
@Technical University of Dortmund, Germany
Professor emeritus Einhard Schmidt-Kallert (born in 1949) has a track record of spatial planning experience both in development con…
Course Background
Cities and their residents are at the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic. More than half of humanity live in urban settings. Conditions in cities have fanned the pandemic and the pandemic has deeply impacted cities.
The link between healthy populations and healthy economies could not be more obvious. The pandemic is expec…
Disaster Risk Reduction Online Dialogue Series
Online Dialogue 1
Urbanization and Disaster Risk in LAC
Date: Monday, September 20, 2021
(International Day of Peace)
Duration: 90 mins.
Core Topics
Urban growth, unsustainable development, and informality
Infrastructure, services, and associated disasters in the region
Socio-envi…
This report discusses how In landslide-prone areas, the vulnerability of housing structures is assessed so that adaptation methods can be introduced to reduce risk. Socio-economic consideration is vital when considering cut slope failures. This paper is an attempt to assess both the physical vulnerability of housing structures and the socioeconomic cond…
The International Panel on Climate Change (IPPC)’s latest report predicts that the worsening impacts of climate change – especially heat stress, floods, and sea level rise – will be felt acutely in cities . I have witnessed devastation like that firsthand. Over the summer, I relocated to Brussels and within weeks, saw the residents of Bel…
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Date & Time
Date: 8 September 2021 (Wed)
Time: 11:00 New Delhi | 12:30 Bangkok/Jakarta | 13:30 Manila/Beijing | 14:30 Incheon
Duration: 90 minutes
Language: English
Background
Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030) is a unique cross-stakeholder initiative offering a 3-stage re…
Event Description
Urban safety is a fundamental value that supports citizens’ lives and urban competitiveness. During recent natural and social disasters, including the COVID-19 pandemic, strengthening urban resilience has emerged as a critical policy task. Global environmental transitions such as climate change and various economic and social…
The European Urban Resilience Forum (EURESFO) is a unique platform where cities, organisations and stakeholders can exchange experiences and discuss strategies for the planning of adaptation to climate change and forging urban resilience for local action.In 2021, EURESFO will take place on 19-20 October as a hybrid event, inviting local and regional ins…