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BOULDER AND THE GLOBAL CONTEXT Boulder and the Global Context

BOULDER AND THE GLOBAL CONTEXT Boulder and the Global Context

September 7, 2014 | Boulder, Colorado One year after the Boulder Flood of 2013, the county came together to host a week of commemoration. Community members, local researchers, city and county staff were invited to share their stories of what happened, what we’ve learned, and how we can come together and bounce forward after this devastating event. As part of this week-long event ISET-International and BoCo Strong hosted a lively discussion “Resilience: Boulder and the Global

Learning Through Games: Resilience Tumbling Blocks

Learning Through Games: Resilience Tumbling Blocks

What does it mean to be resilient? If you don’t know and are just getting started, what’s the best place and method to learn? Communicating technical concepts to a diverse audience is a challenge. Though ISET hasn’t figured out the silver bullet solution, we’re at least having a fun time trying. The Resilience Tumbling Blocks game was developed to engage people around critical resilience planning concepts in a fun, tactile, memorable way. The game evolved out of ISET-Internat

M-BRACE Showcases Intervention Projects in Phuket

M-BRACE Showcases Intervention Projects in Phuket

Provincial officials, city leaders, community members, and representatives from a range of stakeholder groups met in Patong earlier this week to learn about intervention projects conducted in Phuket under Mekong-Building Climate Resilience in Asian Cities (M-BRACE) and to discuss how the outcomes and lessons learned in these projects can help Phuket better address key challenges related to development, urbanization, and climate change. The three projects included a range of a

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Lao Cai Climate Action Plan Approved by Provincial People's Committee

Lao Cai Climate Action Plan Approved by Provincial People's Committee

A Climate Action Plan for the city of Lao Cai has been approved by the Provincial People’s Committee and was formally announced on September 9, 2014. The Action Plan outlines eleven key actions that will help the city address challenges stemming from urbanization and build resilience to climate change. These actions range from ones targeting agents and institutions, such as improving the capacity of weather forecasting and disaster warning, to those that target infrastructure

Is Boulder Resilience - or Not?

Is Boulder Resilience - or Not?

OPPORTUNITIES TO LEARN, OPPORTUNITIES TO TEACH, CHALLENGES TO RECOGNIZE With support from the Rockefeller Foundation supported 100 Resilient Cities initiative, Boulder has just hired a “Chief Resilience Officer.” At the same time, as we approach the first anniversary of the September 2013 floods, discussions on resilience in the city and county are gaining momentum. As a result, it’s important to take stock of where we are. Boulder is a resilient city. We are rapidly spring

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