Jim Hall is a fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and an author of Availability Infrastructure: Resilient Cities – analysis into resilience to climate change in Rotterdam, Vancouver and New York.
There have been a number of resilience initiatives over the past five years - like Rockefeller's 100 Resilient Cities and the World Bank's Small Island States Resilience Initiative.
This is the definition the Rockefeller Foundation adopts in its mission to promote the well-being of humanity throughout the world by facilitating the building of resilience in cities worldwide through its 100 Resilient Cities Programme, launched in 2013.
In line with the current efforts toward ensuring more resilient cities, this paper presents an overview of urban infrastructure resilience to fire disaster.
The popularity of resilience thinking has been recently demonstrated by a dedicated Erasmus academic network, ANDROID; the Rockefeller Foundation's Resilient Cities initiative; and several international centers of excellence for researching disaster resilience.
The three most resilient cities? They're all in Canada.
Resilient cities: what do Rotterdam and Ho Chi Minh City have in common?
This series may be about building resilient cities, but it starts on a farm near Brattleboro, Vermont.
But it's not just the government looking to optimise and conserve water use and make more resilient cities.
This article first appeared on the Resilient Cities blog, published by Next City and supported by the Rockefeller Foundation.
Spurred on by NGO programs such as the Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities, they are rebuilding wetlands, re-engineering shore defences and implementing many other climate adaptation measures.
