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Approaches to Developing Cities Resilience Strategies in Asian Cities

Approaches to Developing Cities Resilience Strategies in Asian Cities. Kai Kim Chiang & Sarah Reed. Cities at Risk: Building Adaptive Capacities for Managing Climate Change Risks in Asian Coastal Cities 11-13 April 2011, Taipei. Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network.

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Approaches to Developing Cities Resilience Strategies in Asian Cities

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  1. Approaches to Developing Cities Resilience Strategies in Asian Cities Kai Kim Chiang & Sarah Reed Cities at Risk: Building Adaptive Capacities for Managing Climate Change Risks in Asian Coastal Cities 11-13 April 2011, Taipei

  2. Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network • Conceived & funded by Rockefeller Foundation • 5 year program covering 10 medium size cities in Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam and India • aims to • catalyze attention, funding, and action on building climate change resilience for poor and vulnerable people in cities • create robust models and methodologies for assessing and addressing climate risk • implement local adaptation measures • build recognition and support for urban climate resilience

  3. Overall ACCCRN Process

  4. Cities Resilience Strategies Purpose:To integrate climate resilience thinking into planning procedures in order to enable vulnerable groups living in cities to anticipate, respond to and recover from projected climate change impacts All ten of the ACCCRN cities have developed or are in the process of finalizing their City Resilience Strategies

  5. Cities Resilience Strategies:Functions & Attributes • Broad guidance document prepared by local stakeholders or government • Provides the context, evidence and analysis to justify adaptation actions • Sets priorities for resilience actions • Consistent with existing planning documents and process (can be easily used by local government agencies) • Provides guidance for private sector and civil society to undertake their own adaptation actions • Links and coordinates complementary activities for donor funding

  6. Cities Resilience Strategies: Inputs Science and Local Knowledge

  7. Cities Resilience Strategies: Tools used Use of inputs from SLD process (vulnerability assessments, sector studies, pilot projects) Climate and urban development scenarios Qualitative prioritization tools

  8. Scenario Development – Indore, India Source: Indore: City Resilience Strategy, 2010 (TARU Leading Edge)

  9. Cost-Benefit Analysis – Da Nang, Vietnam Source: Da Nang City Climate Change Action Plan (2011)

  10. Multi-variable Criteria Analysis - Da Nang, Vietnam Source: Da Nang City Climate Change Action Plan (2011)

  11. Prioritized Adaptation Actions – Da Nang, Vietnam Source: Da Nang City Climate Change Action Plan (2011)

  12. Resilience planning was strategic: All strategies sought optimize limited resources for actionable roadmap Links to policies, plans and funding sources of local and higher level government Approaches tailored to each context Plans adopted a single frame of analysis for vulnerability and actions (sector, hazard, site) ACCCRN Resilience Strategies 1

  13. Adaptation Actions by Hazard – Da Nang, Vietnam

  14. Adaptation Actions by Sector: Surat, India Source: TARU (2010), Surat City Resilience Strategy

  15. Water-logging Risk Frame:Gorakhpur, India Source: Towards a Resilience Gorakhpur, GEAG (2010)

  16. ACCCRN Resilience Strategies 2 Typical issues of concern: • Awareness Raising • Coordination • Disaster Risk Reduction • Major Infrastructure… • …Further detailed studies before large scale investment

  17. Partners managed the uncertainty of climate change projections and incorporated climate impacts in their strategies, through: Responding to existing climate vulnerabilities Scenario development Using “no-regrets” strategies Identifying maladaptation risks Detailed studies of key issues ACCCRN Resilience Strategies 3

  18. New multi-stakeholder planning processes put in place using new tools Capacity building for key stakeholders Issues affecting vulnerable groups central to plans New concepts and new information from outside sources applied to local planning Cities have platform for ongoing learning and planning Preliminary Outcomes

  19. Process of Resilience Strategy Development - Lessons and Challenges Small, core group of local stakeholders Ability to collaborate – NOT technical expertise – is critical Flexible timelines required Challenge of engaging vulnerable groups Support from political leadership is double edged sword

  20. “Key Lesson” The processof developing the resilience strategy is far more important than the document itself

  21. “Urban Climate Resilience in Concept & Practice”Working Paper Series – www.i-s-e-t.org The Shared Learning Dialogue: Building Stakeholder Capacity and Engagement for Resilience Action Observations on the Use of Climate Information in Adaptation and Resilience Practice Planning for Urban Resilience Forthcoming “The Urban Resilience Framework”ISET and Arup Urban Resilience Planning Methods Suite Urban Climate Resilience Indicators Further Information

  22. Sarah Orleans Reed – sreed@i-s-e-t.orgKai Kim Chiang – kaikim@i-s-e-t.org www.i-s-e-t.org

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