Resilience Konference Urban Resilience Prof. Dr. Nicola Tollin Professor wsr in Urban Resilience Civil and Architectural Engineering CAE University of Southern Denmark SDU nto@iti.sdu.dk Vejle, 31 May 2018
KEY CHALLANGES Urbanization : >50% population, 75% natural resources, 80% energy, 75% GHG emissions Development: poverty, sprawl, inequalities, polution, security, accessibility to resources.. Climate change: multiplying effects on urban challenges, short-long term adaptation and mitigation 2
We have the means to limit climate change and build a more prosperous, sustainable future. 3 CLIMATE CHALLENGES The key findings of the Synthesis Report, initially released on 2 November 2014, are: Human influence on the climate system is clear; The more we disrupt our climate, the more we risk severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts ;
INT. POLICY MOMENTUM Disaster Risk Reduction Reduce Risk + Increase Recovery Mitigation + Adaptation Sustainable Development Urban Resilience Transition: Integrating for innovation Generating co-benefits Climate Change Development + Sustainability Urbanization Specific local urban challenges 4
5 SCAN & DOWNLOAD https://unhabitat.org/books/sustainable-urbanization-in-the-paris-agreement/
RESILIENCE WHY? Climate change influences and it is influenced by urban environment leading to systemic multiplying effects on already existing urban dynamics: i.e. urban sprawl and poverty Raising complex challenges for quality of life in cities, as: health and urban biodiversity, equality/justice. All cities are vulnerable to slow and rapid on-setting catastrophic events, both environmental as hurricane in or human as migratory movements. THE NEED TO RE-THINK CITIES RADICALLY DESIGN, PLANNING, USE and MANAGEMENT
RESILIENCE WORKING DEFINITION Urban resilience is a transformative process through which a urban system, Including structure/infrastructures/environment/economy/and society as whole, Aims at dynamically building adaptive capacities able to reduce risk, prevent and better manage the recovery from disaster, in the short ant the long term At the same time fostering innovation processes that will help to develop more sustainable cities and enhance the quality of life of their inhabitants LEAVING NO ONE BEHIND
PRACTICE MOMENTUM UNHABITAT: WUF 7 Medellin Collaboration on Urban Resilience UNHABITAT: Urban Resilience Institute and City Resilience Profiling Program ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION: 100 Resilient Cities ICLEI: Resilient Cities RECNET: RESURBE Program on Urban Resilience Bloomberg: C40 EQUITY EARTHQUAKES SPRAWL OVERPOPULATION SEA LEVEL EXTREME WEATHER
RESEARCH MOMENTUM????? Just Starting The concept of resilience has been first explored and developed in environmental sciences (ecology and biology) since the end of 60. Later adopted in phycology, medicine, social sciences, engineering, Only in the last 5-7 years in relation to cities under an truly transdisciplinary approach. Only 100 article circa in SCOPUS IN 2015 Urban resilience cannot be considered merely a sum of the concepts developed in different disciplines but it requires a new systemic approach to facilitate a paradigm shift in our city making and city living.
KNOWLEDGE GAPS Identification of challenges and knowledge/research gaps 1) Lack of finance, technology and capacity at local level, particularly in mid and small size cities 2) Need for integrated policies and actions (including multi-sector and multi-level one) able to generate co-benefits Identification of integrated and systemic solutions 1) Eco-system services and nature based solutions are integrated and systemic solution that can generate co-benefits 2) Co-benefits tackling climate change causes (mitigation) and effects (adaptation) including slow and rapid on-setting one. 3) Co-benefits tackling also sustainable development issues, as growth/job creation, social inclusion/justice, preservation of bio-diversity, health,
RECOMANDATIONS 1 Recommendations (enabling conditions) 1) Modelization and quantification of co-benefits, local context related, to avoid re-bound effects (science) 2) Improve governance particularly in terms of vertical integration and horizontal integration at national and local level (policy) 3) Coordinate effort, avoiding duplication, for example understanding urban contribution to NAPs and NDCs (policy-science)
RECOMANDATIONS 2 Co-design and co-creation: participatory design and implementation at the core of the project Planning as a process: a resilient planning process, as a dynamic and adaptive process Planners as facilitator: planner as facilitator of participatory process not a as demiurge PROCESS DESIGN METHODOLOGY
Resilience Konference Urban Resilience Prof. Dr. Nicola Tollin Professor wsr in Urban Resilience Civil and Architectural Engineering CAE University of Southern Denmark SDU nto@iti.sdu.dk Vejle, 31 May 2018