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October, 2013
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Author: Sam Kernaghan, Jo da Silva
Across Asia, and more widely, significant investment is being made by donor organisations to catalyse awareness about climate change impacts in dynamic urban environments. This investment has ini- tiated processes that enable cities to adapt and become more resil- ient, thereby reducing risk to...
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October, 2013
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This paper considers how resilience thinking and, in particular, its emphasis on learning has been applied in 10 cities in Vietnam, India, Thailand and Indonesia. Applying a “shared learning” approach in the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) has helped to create...
ASIA:India, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam |
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September, 2013
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This paper considers how development policy concerns for poverty reduction and social justice can be accommodated in emerging theories and practice on urban resilience and adaptation in response to climate change. There is growing interest in applying resilience to address the challenges of urban...
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October, 2012
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This paper aims to capture and analyze emerging experiences, lessons and tensions evident from several years of work underway through the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network, a network of secondary cities in South and Southeast Asia that have engaged in a process to analyze...
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September, 2012
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Based on evidence and experience from 10 cities which form part of the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (www.acccrn.net), this article proposes that a simplified conceptual model and resilience characteristics be used to analyse urban systems, in parallel with spatial analysis, to...
ASIA:India, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam |
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January, 2012
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For a successful path to sustainable development to occur, there is great need for the integration of climate adaptation and resilience into urban planning. This working paper examines a case study in which such a plan is discussed and implemented. Because the government of Indonesia was largely...
ASIA:Indonesia Indonesia:Semarang |
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November, 2011
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The traditional modes of urban governance and infrastructure decision-making, founded on the ‘predict and prevent’ paradigm, are no longer relevant. Dynamic factors in cities across Asia, including rapid urbanization, climate change impacts and rising vulnerability of populations,...
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