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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 Context.” The event was broken into three sections: Introduction by Marcus Moench, Founder of ISET-International Panel Discussion of local and international experts Musical performance by the Railsplitters All of these d
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-International’s Climate Resilience Framework, a structured approach to assessing and building resilience that ISET has used successfully in South and Southeast Asia. The Resilience Tumbling Blocks game uses the language and stru
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 activities such as the construction of a new meteorological monitoring station in Patong, the development of climate change and environment classes for schools, capacity building in stakeholder engagement, and a youth sho
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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 and ecosystems, such as investing in drainage and solid-waste processing systems. For each of the action items, the plan identifies the lead and coordinating agencies responsible for implementation as well as sources of
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 springing back from the flooding. During the floods neighborhoods pulled together to help each other and the city’s emergency response teams responded quickly to a situation both larger and different from any they had previous
