UR2020 # Cities

   Tuesday, December 1: 11.30 – 13.00 Building climate resilience practices into city planning – A Vietnamese case study Citrine 211 identify · Cities · Data · risk assessment · flood · tropical cyclone-hurricane-typhoon · drought Scientific studies demonstrate that climate change and its effects are likely to intensify over the coming decades. Between 1998…

   Monday, November 30: 09.00 – 10.30 Doing drainage differently: Tackling urban flooding in the future mega-city of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Tourmaline 207 identify · Emerging technologies · risk assessment · data · earth observations Every year floods in the Msimbazi River Valley in Dar es Salaam result in deaths and millions of dollars…

   Tuesday, December 1: 14.00 – 15.30 Fire resilience and the urbanising margins Peridot 205 Organizer: University of Edinburgh UR2020 Quick Links Home / Registration FAQs UR Collaboration Travel Preliminary Agenda Main Conference topics Focus day tags Identify Communicate Use AI / Machine learning Data Cities Emerging technologies Risk communication Risk assessment Infrastructure Youth and…

   Monday, November 30: 09.00 – 10.30 Increasing disaster resilience in Asia-Pacific cities through science and technology Opal 101 identify · use · Infrastructure · Emerging technologies · cities Digitisation offers new opportunities for science to analyse the complexity of urban environments and stimulates the development of new or disruptive technologies. Such technologies can support…

Royal HaskoningDHV joins the UR2020 and proposes a side event focused on risk thinking versus resilience thinking and the use of objective data versus subjective data in adaptation and resilience design.The side event is organised as a workshop in which we showcase several participatory modelling tools, the cities for which they were used and how…

Urbanisation challenges Africa’s young labour force, which needs to be skilled to solve problems caused by unplanned urbanisation. This is a major opportunity for African universities. Young, graduated experts need to be able to steer urbanisation to sustainable trajectories with digital skills and innovative uses of geospatial data and technologies for urban transformation. The Resilience…

The cities of today face the challenge of protecting their populations from extreme weather and climate change effects. Many cities of the future will only be larger, denser, and more exposed to natural hazards. What can we do to protect them? To manage and reduce their vulnerability and increase their resilience? Resilient urban planning requires…

n one year and 12 cities, the Open Cities Africa program trained neighborhood residents, university students, and civil servants how to use phones, cameras, drones and other tech to gather data on disaster risk. Yet data collection was only the beginning. How can hundreds of trained mappers and hundreds of thousands of mapped features help…

As an all-of-society challenge, addressing climate and disaster risk issues will require diverse participation and collaboration across boundaries of all sorts, whether they be disciplinary, national, professional, cultural, age, etc.
Yet forming effective collaborations across these diverse boundaries is difficult and rare. With the support of the Understanding Risk community and World Bank Disaster Risk…

The Resilience Shift (RS) (www.resilienceshift.org), supported by Lloyd’s Register Foundation and Arup, is working to make resilience tangible, practical and relevant. Currently focusing on the urban water sector, we are proposing a side event that will consider urban water systems through the lens of resilience.

Urbanization is occurring rapidly in many places – 43 cities are expected to exceed 10 million people by 2030, with 2.5 billion people added to urban areas by 2050. Increasing urbanization manifests in 1) expansion of the urban area, resulting in change in land use as undeveloped land is developed, and 2) infill, as open…

Community engagement has become a mainstay for urban planning and disaster risk management. It takes diverse forms, from consultation with female neighborhood leaders, to partnering with universities for data collection and analysis, to local businesses and entrepreneurs bringing innovation into government and humanitarian work.What do we need to do to push the envelope further?