FRACTAL Learning - Adaptation Inspiration Theme Module 5
Adaptation Inspiration Theme: Building Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in the City of Lusaka, Zambia
Cities, climate change and corruption – issues, dynamics, strategies
Corruption has the potential to disrupt urban development and responses to climate change. This webinar unpacks the relationship between these issues and discusses possible policy responses.
Webinar: The Urban Health Initiative
This webinar introduces the Urban Health Initiative, which aims to reduce deaths and diseases associated with short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) and other air pollutants at the city level.
Webinar: Accelerating Climate Resilient Development in Cities
This webinar focuses on the SDC funded CapaCITIES project in India, which is advancing climate action planning to accelerate transformation of cities to low carbon, climate resilient cities.
6 Things to Know about Urban Adaptation
This publication highlights the key learnings from the Urban Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience (UCCAR) training course.
Urban Resilience Roadmap
This interactive process map has been developed as a tool to help cities, government agencies, and development partners better navigate a course for building resilience.
Gender Sourcebook: Integrating Gender into Proposals
This online sourcebook aims to help ensure that gender considerations and women’s empowerment are incorporated into large-scale climate change adaptation projects.
Building climate resilience in cities
This CDKN Essential summarises learning from CDKN work in cities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean in mainstreaming climate compatible development in cities.
Rooftop Farming in Cairo
In informal settlements of Greater Cairo a rooftop farming project was started in 2014, supported by GIZ. The results were promising, but technical and managerial problems still have to be solved.
Low Carbon Resilience and Transboundary Municipal Ecosystem Governance
This research project outlines the benefits, challenges, and successes associated with transboundary ecosystem management in Still Creek, a riparian ecosystem located in Metro Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Building a Climate-Resilient City: Transformational adaptation
This policy brief looks at how cities can approach transformational adaptation through the implementation of fundamentally different approaches to preparing for, and responding to, climate risks.
Building a Climate-Resilient City: Transportation infrastructure
This policy brief looks at measures that cities can take to improve their transportation infrastructure in order to build resilience to climate change impacts.
Building a Climate-Resilient City: Electricity and information and communication technology infrastructure
This policy brief looks at measures related to electricity and ICT infrastructure that cities can use to build their resilience to climate change impacts.
Building a Climate-Resilient City: The built environment
This policy brief looks at ways cities can build resilience in the built environment through climate-robust design options.
Building a Climate-Resilient City: Economics and finance
This policy brief looks at economic and financial measures that cities can use to build their resilience to climate change impacts.
Key reports for the CC&E Network 2014-2016
These publications provide insights and learning on key topics in climate change mitigation, adaptation and sustainable development, and highlight areas for future research and policy development.
Building Resilience in African Cities
This Thinkpiece is based on reflections from a group of FRACTAL project members around what the term resilience really means, particularly within the context of African cities.
Building capacity through the UN CC:Learn platform
The UN CC: Learn platform, funded by the Swiss Government and UN partners, offers free climate change-relevant learning resources that are backed by the UN system.
Synergy for Sustainable Cities
Written for multiple audiences, this book explores multi-stakeholder engagement for building resilience and ensuring urban sustainability, and details of actions for enhancing urban resilience.
Dialogue for decision-making: the ‘City Learning Lab’ approach
The FRACTAL ‘City Learning Lab’ approach is designed to facilitate problem-solving at the intersection of climate change and urbanization trends across cities in Southern Africa.
Establishment of Surat Climate Change Trust
Surat Climate Change Trust (SCCT) was established to engage in urbanization and climate change, to assess urban growth scenarios and to advise local government on sustainable habitat development.
Urban Health and Climate Resilience Center
The Urban health and Climate Resilience Center (UHCRC), Surat was launched in March 2013 as the latest health related climate change project by the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (A
Mass displacement and urban resilience
People displaced by conflict and disasters increasingly end up in urban areas. This Working Paper assesses the impact of mass displacement on the wellbeing of all urban residents.
Crescent Beach Community Addresses Coastal Flooding
This report documents the outcomes of a series of meetings with the Crescent Beach community of British Columbia in the summer of 2016 to discuss reponses to sea level rise.
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