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Advocacy for urban resilience: UNISDR's Making Cities Resilient Campaign

Johnson, C; Blackburn, S; (2014) Advocacy for urban resilience: UNISDR's Making Cities Resilient Campaign. ENVIRONMENT AND URBANIZATION , 26 (1) 29 - 52. 10.1177/0956247813518684. Green open access

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Abstract

This paper reviews what local governments in more than 50 cities are doing with regard to disaster risk reduction. It draws on the reports of their participation in the global Making Cities Resilient Campaign and its 10 “essential” components, and on interviews with city mayors or managers. These show how resilience to disasters is being conceived and addressed by local governments, especially with regard to changes in their institutional framework and engagement with communities and other stakeholders, also in mobilizing finance, undertaking multi-hazard risk assessments, upgrading informal settlements, adjusting urban planning and implementing building codes. The paper summarizes what city mayors or managers view as key milestones for building resilience, and further discusses their evaluation of the usefulness of the campaign to them. It also discusses how a local government-focused perspective on disaster risk reduction informs our understanding of resilience. This includes how development can contribute much to disaster risk reduction as well as a more tangible and operational understanding of resilience (resistance + coping capacity + recovery + adaptive capacity) that local governments can understand and act on.

Type: Article
Title: Advocacy for urban resilience: UNISDR's Making Cities Resilient Campaign
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1177/0956247813518684
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956247813518684
Additional information: Copyright © 2015 by International Institute for Environment and Development This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (http://www.uk.sagepub.com/aboutus/openaccess.htm).
Keywords: planning, local government, urban, disaster, resilience, risk reduction
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Development Planning Unit
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1433986
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