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    CITY RESILIENCE Professional Working Group

    "Resilience Through Collaboration"
    Our Raison d'être - Formulate the requirements of our cities to help them achieve effetive resilience (REQUIREMENTS), lobby government to ensure policy and laws support these needs (LEGISLATION), lobby the voluntary, emergency services, public and private sectors where we see needs for improvement (OPERATIONAL QUALITY), seek out resilience focussed community initiatives and look to connect these up and embrace the use of technology and big data to look for integrated and collaborative solutions to help address the city resilience challenges (PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION CITYWIDE).
    Mission - To get the support of at least one UK city leader to help build the foundations and framework for a truly effective resilient city which will hope to publish proposed requirements for city resilience, influence appropriate upgrades to UK legislation respecting city resilience requirements, campaign for operational resilience effectiveness within city institutions and propose mechanisms to better integrate and collaborate with people and communities within cities by employing both people power and technology.
    BACKGROUND TO CITY RESILIENCE
    Dr Judith Rodin, President, Rockefeller Foundation. Future in which individuals, companies and entire societies avert disaster by creating more dynamic, more resilient cities.
    How ICT is allowing cities to better foresee, mitigate and adapt to disruptive events with infrastructure and through social skills development.
    The Why, What, and How of 100 Resilient Cities - Pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation, an innovative project seeking to select and work with 100 member cities in order to help them confront the increasing number of shock and stresses that challenge an ever-more urbanized world.
    CITY RESILIENCE FRAMEWORKS FOR CONSIDERATION

    BUILDING THE RESILIENCE OF NATIONS AND COMMUNITIES TO DISASTERS

     

    The HFA is a 10-year plan to make the world safer from natural hazards.

     

    It was endorsed by the UN General Assembly in the Resolution A/RES/60/195 following the 2005 World Disaster Reduction Conference.

     

    View/Download FRAMEWORK

    Malcolm Smith

    Director, ARUP

    on Critical Challenges facing cities of the global south, Challenges within the IIHS curriculum framework. This is not the ARUP city resilience framework but it clearly demonstrates the need for a  ground up approach and community involvement not the individual.

     

    On 11 2014 April at the seventh World Urban Forum (WUF7) in Colombia, Arup launched The City Resilience Framework, a tool to understand the complexity of cities and the factors which contribute to resilience can be understood and measured in order to shape urban planning, practice and investment.

     

    View/Download FRAMEWORK

     

    Produced by Arup to mark the occasion of the launch of Bristol as one of 100 resilient cities and featuring George Ferguson and others. This video considers the definition of resilience, what it means to be resilient and how cities can move towards this.

    ABOUT CITY RESILIENCE
    GROUP CHAIR
    CONTACT DETAILS

    As more and more people move to live in our cities, this growth in urbanisation now increases risk. 

     

    Additionally, increased natural and man made disasters require our cities to work together as a community to seek out effective processes and technologies to help build a city-wide culture for resilience.

     

     

     

    Peter Joyce

    pjoyce@nonverba.com

     

     

    "Together We Stand, Divided We Fall. 

     

    Cities Now Need All Of Their Residents To Pull Together To Build Truly Resilient Cities"

     

    TWITTER FEEDS
    Group Contact Details

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    Chairperson

    Peter Joyce

    pjoyce@nonverba.com

     

    Vice Chairperson

    John Thompson

     

     

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    CURRENT ACTIVITIES
    EXTERNAL LINKS
    TERMS OF REFERENCE

    The City Resilience PWG has a mission to ultimately deliver tangible solutions and results for at least one UK city and this core requirement of the group requires the following strategic objective areas or sub groups to be managed by City Resilience PWG members to help realise this mission. 

    Parish Resilience
    Transport Resilience
    Legislation
    Standards
    Technology
    Economic
    Environmental
    Terrorism
    100 Resilient Cities
    UNISDR
    ICLEI
    Siemens
    The Guardian
    Resilient City.org
    Next City.org
    Grosvenor
    Governance
    Raison D'être
    Mission
    Org Chart
    Role
    2015 Plan
    Meetings & Review
    Board Review
    Methods Of Working
    Key Dates
    Accountability