Climate Change in Informal Settlements
This article summarizes ways in which climate change adaptation and mitigation can be achieved in informal settlements.
Even half a degree of warming matters for South Asia’s urban poor
Aditi Paul of CDKN Asia reflects on the revelations in the IPCC’s 1.5°C Special Report and its implications, including key messages for cities.
Tracking Urban Resilience: a summary of the ICLEI 2018 Resilient Cities Report
This report tracks local progress on the resilience targets of SDG 11 – Based on the outcomes of the 9th Global Forum on Urban Resilience and Adaptation 26-28 April 2018 | Bonn, Germany
Urban resilience and everyday risk
African cities face unique challenges and climate change threats. This paper analyzes how resiliency can be made applicable to urban African contexts.
Building Urban Resilience to Climate Change: A Review of Madagascar
This report examines the institutional environment, urban management capacity, and financial resources and mechanisms available to address adaptation in Madagascar’s growing cities.
Building Urban Resilience to Climate Change: A Review of South Africa
This report examines the institutional environment, urban management capacity, and financial resources and mechanisms available to address adaptation in South Africa's cities.
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.
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.
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.
Disasters and national economic resilience
This paper aims to provide an analysis of economic resilience at the national level, presenting broad changes in resilience to climate extremes over a 42 year period.
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: Water supply and sanitation systems
This policy brief looks at measures that cities can take to improve water supply and sanitation systems in order 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: 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 a Climate-Resilient City: Agriculture and food security
This policy brief looks at measures related to agriculture and food security that cities can adopt in their municipal adaptation plans to build their resilience to climate change impacts.
Building a Climate-Resilient City: Urban ecosystems
This policy brief looks at how cities can approach urban ecosystems in their municipal adaptation plans 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.
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.
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.
ODI Resilience Scan Jul-Sep 2016
This scan summarises writing and debates in the field of resilience during the third quarter of 2016, focusing primarily on the context of developing countries.
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.
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