Urban Climate Resilience

Urban Climate Resilience - Adaptation Community

As urban populations grow, the strain on infrastructure, resources, and services escalates. Urban resilience becomes paramount to ensure cities can sustain this ...

What is Urban Resilience?

Urban resilience is the capacity of a city's systems, businesses, institutions, communities, and individuals to survive, adapt, and thrive.

Urban Climate Resilience | UNDP Climate Change Adaptation

For UNDP, the main areas of work are developing enabling environments and an evidence base to inform urban climate-risk management; financing and investment ...

Eight Ways Cities Are Building Climate Resilience

One of the key qualities of a resilient city is robustness—that is, that the city is designed to anticipate and respond to potential issues. Vertical farms are ...

UNDP Issues Brief on Urban Climate Resilience

It is critical for cities to employ an integrated, climate risk-informed development approach to advance resilient lives and livelihoods and achieve progress ...

Urban Climate Change Resilience: A Synopsis

These challenges are partly a result of direct and indirect impacts of climate change, and are often compounded by preexisting vulnerability. Urban resilience ...

Urban Resilience for a Changing Climate | United Nations

A sociologist and urban planning scholar who received his PhD from the University of Chicago. His work has appeared in Urban Studies, Architect, City & ...

12 Examples of Climate-Resilient City Solutions - State of Green

When approached holistically, climate adaptation can be used to create synergies between urban challenges by addressing several areas of urban development ...

Climate change and urban resilience - ScienceDirect.com

Cities must become resilient to a wider range of shocks and stresses. Climate resilience must be bundled with efforts to promote urban development.

A framework for urban climate resilience - Taylor & Francis Online

This article reviews concepts and theories in a range of diverse fields to illustrate how the general notion of urban climate resilience can be developed into ...

Supporting urban adaptation to climate change: What role can ...

We argue that urban climate resilience measurement tools need to 1) support action implementation processes as much as assessing outcomes, and 2) consider the ...

Call for Applications: Research Grants on Urban Climate Resilience

The GDPC small research grants program provides funding to university researchers for projects focused on climate resilience in urban areas within selected ...

Urban - Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre

Resilient cities. The Climate Centre provides guidance and resources for inclusive urban climate action at scale. The team engage in policy dialogue, leading ...

Building urban climate resilience in south-eastern Africa ...

The project will strengthen urban climate resilience by working with various levels of government and stakeholders and ensuring strong ...

Urban Climate Change Resilience Trust Fund Technical ... - Arup

Asian cities find themselves at the forefront of vulnerability to climate change. To protect urban populations, build adaptive capacity and strengthen ...

Climate and resilience in cities - OECD

Cities are vulnerable to various climatic events such as droughts, heatwaves, floods, and storms, leading to diverse consequences across urban areas.

Urban Climate Resilience – The Role of Law | Elgar Online

Urban Climate Resilience ... This significant book addresses the most important legal issues that cities face when attempting to adapt to the ...

Climate Resilience and Urban Opportunity (CRUO)

The Kresge Foundation's CRUO initiative has helped build the climate-resilience field by supporting new approaches that directly benefit low-income ...

Urban Climate Change Research Network

Provides readers with urban climate change knowledge, tools, and case studies to heighten opportunities for sustainability and resilience in cities worldwide.

Building Climate Resilience in Urban Areas - UNFCCC

Action in urban centers is essential for successful climate change adaptation. By 2050, an esti- mated 6.2 billion people or 70 per cent of the global ...