ProSus #3: Building resilience in southern African cities
The third issue of START’s ProSus Magazine features reflections, research and stories from the Future Resilience for African Cities and Lands (FRACTAL) program.
Inspiring Climate Action in African Cities
This paper contains 17 case studies, each providing creative ways that various stakeholders have found to adapt to complex, interwoven climatic and social challenges.
The Green Book: Adapting South African settlements to climate change
The Green Book is an online planning support tool that provides quantitative evidence on the likely impacts that climate change and urbanisation will have on South Africa’s cities and towns.
Nature Based Solutions for Water
We need new solutions to managing water resources to offset the rising challenges to water security. This report proposes an innovative response: nature-based solutions.
Mainstreaming Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for Effective Management in Cities
Mainstreaming Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for Effective Management in Cities
ICLEI, Local Governments for Sustainability - Africa Secretariat
ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability, or ICLEI for short, is the leading global network of over 1,500 cities, towns and regions committed to building a sustainable urban future.
Identifying differentiated needs for resilience planning in urban poor communities
This webinar looked at key results from the application of the Urban Community Resilience Assessment tool and discuss how it can better capture differentiated needs to inform resilience planning.
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.
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.
Building a Climate-Resilient City: Disaster preparedness and emergency management
This policy brief looks at disaster preparedness and emergency management measures that cities can use to build their resilience to climate change impacts.
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.
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.
AMMA 2050: African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis 2050
The AMMA-2050 team will investigate how physical processes interact to cause ‘high impact weather events’ such as storms and heat waves that affect lives and livelihoods.
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.
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.
Report: Urbanisation, Poverty, Climate Change Vol 1 & 2
This synthesis report showcases the evidence from cities involved in developing the City Resilience Strategy and practical interventions adopted to create urban resilience.
Department of Architecture (DiARC), University of Naples Federico II
DiARC supports education and research in architecture, design for the built environmental and urban and regional planning.
Research pertinent to climate change adaptation includes:
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
The GSD offers an exciting setting for interaction and the exchange of ideas through the combination of disciplines—architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning and design—together with
United Nations Human Settlements Programme
UN-Habitat is the United Nations programme working towards a better urban future.
Afghan Cities for Life
This article examines the key environmental challenges facing Afghan cities, including services such as transport, water, sanitation; natural resource management; climate change and DRR.
Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change in the Semi-Arid Regions of India
ASSAR is a research project that seeks to understand the factors that have prevented climate change adaptation from being more widespread and successful. This article features ASSAR's work in India.
Indian Institute of Human Settlements
The Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) is a national education institution committed to the equitable, sustainable and efficient transformation of Indian settlements.
Integrating urban agriculture and forestry into climate change action plans
This CDKN case study, Integrating urban agriculture and forestry into climate change action plans – Lessons from Sri Lanka by Marielle Dubbeling of RUAF Foundation, illustrates how the...
A local vision of climate adaptation: Participatory urban planning in Mozambique
With an estimated population of 1.1 million, Maputo is the most densely populated city in Mozambique. The city is sharply divided into two areas: ’the cement city’, or the old...
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