Resilient Cities 2010 is the first edition of an annual convention to share the latest scientific findings, effective approaches and state-of-the-art programs on climate change adaptation and resilience-building in cities and urbanized areas.
Partners will convene to share knowledge and experiences on a variety of the following themes:
Urban Risk Assessment – Methods and Tools• Urban risk assessment: vulnerability and adaptive capacity
• Vulnerability mapping using GIS and DEMs
• Community-based approaches: capturing local knowledge
• Managing uncertainty – forecast, prognosis, scenarios
Socio-Economic and Institutional Dimensions• Climate change induced migration and displacement
• Climate change and health
• Climate change and water
• Climate change and food security
• Climate change and the economic basis of cities
• Organizational development to master adaptation
• Legal liability implications of climate change for local governments
Strategy, Policy Integration and Mainstreaming• Methodology and elements of adaptation planning, and location of existing planning and management frameworks
• Strategies: incremental adaptation or leap-frogging to radical solutions
• Linking mitigation and adaptation: Resilient, lowcarbon cities
• Linking climate adaptation to development programming
• Integrating climate change adaptation with disaster risk reduction
• Linking local plans to National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs)
Urban Adaptation Planning and Practice• Strategic urban planning for resilience and adaptation
• Climate risks as factor in urban sustainability management
• Resource efficiency as factor of resiliency
• Adapting land-use and development
• Adapting buildings and housing areas
• Adapting urban stormwater and sewage systems
• Adapting transportation infrastructure
• Adapting energy supply infrastructure
• Adapting peri-urban agriculture and food supply
• Integrated coastal management to address sea-level rise and flooding
• Emergency management and response
Costs and Financing of Urban Climate Change Adaptation• Costs of non-adaptation and of adaptation
• Financing adaptation at local level
• Critical infrastructure investments and asset management
• Adaptation Fund
• GEF Strategic Priority on Adaptation
Technologies for Adaptation of Settlements and Infrastructure• Landscape and river management technologies
• Urban infrastructure technologies
• Emergency response technologies
Resilient Cities 2010 will enhance exchange, learning, networking, debate and policy development on approaches and solutions to climate change adaptation for cities and municipalities. It also aims at setting the direction for future planning and investment at the local level. The event will bring about policy propositions and impulses for innovation.
Related Link1st World Congress on Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change - 2010
