More than 50% of the world’s population lives in towns and cities. Urban growth is set to continue, leading to 68% of the global population living in cities by 2050. Most of this urbanisation is projected to occur in low- and middle-income regions, where high concentrations of vulnerable populations live in neighbourhoods often exposed to climate risks. As a consequence, enhancing the resilience of cities to the impacts of a changing climate is a critically important task. However, urban areas are complex systems where diverse individuals, networks and organisations with different visions of urban development, incentives and institutional protocols interact continually. Understanding these dynamics is essential for finding urban resilience interventions that are aligned with the unique contextual characteristics of each city. This report presents the Strengthening and Enhancing Contextual Urban Resilience (SECURe) approach for achieving this effectively.
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Table of Contents
- Summary 5
- Introduction 7
- 1. Domains of action: entry points for urban resilience interventions 9
- 2. Analytical framework: networks, institutions, culture and the environment 12
- 2.1 Public institutions, the economy and knowledge 13
- 2.2 Social norms and intersectional identities 14
- 2.3 Networks analysis: political, economic, technical, policy and scientific 14
- 2.4 The biophysical environment: windows of opportunity for interventions 15
- 3. Design framework: a suite of co-production goals and modalities 17
- 3.1 Co-production goals 17
- 3.2 Modes of co-production 19
- 4. Prototype interventions: a heuristic to connect context analysis and intervention design 21
- 4.1 Prototype 1 21
- 4.2 Prototype 2 23
- 4.3 Prototype 3 24
- Conclusions 27
- Annex 1. Methodology 28
- References 32
