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Urban Resiliency in Caribbean SIDS: Sustainability Indicators

Explore the role of sustainability indicators in enhancing urban resiliency in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS), focusing on climate change effects and policy implications. Case studies and key messages are analyzed.

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Urban Resiliency in Caribbean SIDS: Sustainability Indicators

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  1. Tracey Beard Department of Geomatics Engineering and Land Management University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine Increasing urban resiliency in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS): The role of sustainability indicators Caribbean Urban Forum June 2019

  2. Presentation Outline • Research context • SIDS and climate change • Urban resilience • Sustainability indicators • IDB ESCI • Case study • World Bank USF • Indicators and policy • Key messages

  3. Background

  4. SIDS and Climate Change Effects

  5. Urban resilience

  6. Urban Sustainability Indicators

  7. Sustainability indicators – towards a fourth generation of urban indicators

  8. Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative (ESCI) (IDB 2012)

  9. Case study - Trinidad

  10. Case study - Trinidad

  11. World Bank Urban Sustainability Framework (USF)

  12. World Bank USF – Climate Change Adaptation

  13. World Bank USF – Disaster Risk Reduction

  14. Application of indicators – planning and development policy

  15. Key messages

  16. References GonzálezCouret, D. (2016) ‘Urban sustainability in Latin America: challenges and perspectives’, Arquitectura and Urbanismo, 37(1), 63–69. James, P., Magee, L. and Manfred, S. (2015) Urban sustainability in theory and practice: circle of sustainability, New York, Routledge. Jocobus A. 2006. “Sustainable development-historical roots of the concept”. Environmental Sciences, 3:2,83-96. Mycoo M. 2018. “Urban sustainability in Caribbean Small Island Developing States: a conceptual framework for urban planning using a case study of Trinidad”. International Development Planning Review, 40:2, 144 -173.

  17. References Mycoo, Michelle and Michael Donovan. 2017. A Blue Urban Agenda: Adapting to Climate Change in the Coastal Cities of Caribbean and Pacific Small Island Developing States. Washington: Inter-American Development Bank. United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-Habitat). 2015. Urbanisation and Climate Change in Small Island Developing States. Nairobi: UN-Habitat. Accessed January 25, 2018. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?page=view&type=400&nr=2169&menu=1515 United Nations. 1987. “Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development.

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