This Workbook offers a step-by-step guide for city officials in proactively planning for natural disasters and climate change impacts. It is based on learning from three cities in Vietnam – Ha Noi, Can Tho, and Dong Hoi – that developed Local Resilience Action Plans (LRAPs) containing a set of prioritized actions, related to both infrastructure
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The report summarizes the sustainability issues faced by cities and points toward the road ahead. It reviews successes in policy as well as investment and discusses what is needed to reach out to the rapidly growing cities of the developing world and make them effective users of existing knowledge. The World Bank http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/urbandevelopment/publication/building-sustainability-urbanizing-world
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A Guide to Integrated Urban Flood Risk Management for the 21st Century provides forward-looking operational assistance to policy makers and technical specialists in the rapidly expanding cities and towns of the developing world on how best to manage the risk of floods. It takes a strategic approach, in which appropriate risk management measures are assessed,
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Urban Risk Assessments: Understanding Disaster and Climate Risk in Cities (World Bank, 2012) provides a practical framework for analyzing and managing disaster and climate risks in urban areas. Designed for city officials, urban planners, and development practitioners, the resource introduces the Urban Risk Assessment (URA) methodology, which integrates three core pillars—hazard impact, institutional capacity, and
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The Climate Resilience Framework: Training Materials provides city stakeholders with the information and tools necessary to design a climate resilience strategy. The Climate Resilience Framework (CRF) is an analytical, systems-based approach to building resilience to climate change in urban areas. The goal of this structured framework is to build overall, networked city resilience capable of
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Compilation of case studies on Red Cross urban resilience and preparedness programs from Colombia, Jamaica and Nicaragua. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC) is responding to urban plight in the Americas Zone through the Secretariat’s launch of urban risk, migration, climate change and violence as thematic focus areas for integrated zone
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The paper analyses the opportunities and implications for early earning systems on the background of a changing climate and urban growth. Emerging Challenges for Early Warning Systems in context of Climate Change and Urbanization http://www.dkkv.org/DE/ressource.asp?ID=290
This handbook on sustainable reconstruction in urban areas seeks to unpack the problems that many organisations are confronted with in urban reconstruction and provide step-by-step guidance on how to design and implement housing reconstruction programmes in cities. Sustainable Reconstruction in Urban Areas: A Handbook http://www.ifrc.org/PageFiles/95526/publications/Urban%20reconstruction%20Handbook%20IFRC-SKAT.pdf
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A handbook to provide “mayors, governors, councillors and other local government leaders with a generic framework for risk reduction and points to good practices and tools that are already being applied in different cities for that purpose.” How to make cities more resilient: a handbook for local government leaders http://www.unisdr.org/campaign/resilientcities/toolkit/handbook
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The latest in a series of bi-annual studies on the world’s cities. This edition uses the framework of ‘The Urban Divide’ to analyze the complex social, political, economic and cultural dynamics of urban environments. State of the World’s Cities – 2012 – 2013 http://www.unhabitat.org/pmss/listItemDetails.aspx?publicationID=2917
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