Read our new article “Resilience projects as experiments: Implementing climate change resilience in Asian cities” in the journal Climate and Development. “There have been activities building resilience in the past, but using other words or program titles,” noted one ACCCRN (Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network) partner from Semarang, Indonesia. As my co-authors and I began meeting with ACCCRN partners to reflect on our experiences of project implementation, observations like this seemed to come up time and time again. They are right, of course. Most resilience projects encompass types of activities that international development projects have supported for years—such as community r
Originally posted on: http://acccrn.org/news-and-events/news As we wrapped up our first ACCCRN Vietnam-Thailand City Learning Exchange in Bangkok, Dr. Paul from Thailand Environmental Institute (TEI) underlined the events’ significance: our trip with 5 Vietnamese representatives of Can Tho and Da Nang Cities to meet with leaders from Hat Yai, Ayutthaya, and Thung Song marked one step in raising the level of dialogue between local ASEAN governments, to coordinate not just on economic development but on sustainable development. The exchange posed the question: How can ASEAN cities urbanize to provide benefits equitably and sustainably, while avoiding the worst impacts of climate change? The bi
By Tho Nguyen and Danielle Cleal – ISET-International, Vietnam The Resilient Cities Asia-Pacific Forum in Bangkok from 11-13 February 2015 was the first in a series of congress platforms that aim to promote partnership and actions for urban resilience in the Asia-Pacific. An addition to the Resilient Cities – The Annual Global Forum on Urban Resilience and Adaptation series by ICLEI in Bonn Germany, the forum tries to drive more attention to one of the world’s most vulnerable regions to climate change. Above: 2015 Resilient Cities Asia-Pacific Forum. Photo credit: ICLEI This conference gathered about 300 participants from 30 countries, including city mayors/vice mayors and municipal official
By Tho Nguyen and Thanh Ngo, ISET-Vietnam More than 20 core members of UCR-COP gathered at our planning meeting in Hanoi on March 03, 2015 for some challenging planning exercise, and nailed down specific targets to work towards in 2015. The participants—including Urban Development Agency, UN-HABITAT, BTC, The Asia Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, Spatial Decision, VUPDA, NISTPASS, GIZ and ISET— looked back at what were planned for UCR-CoP in 2014, highlighted major successes, and discussed the challenges to these successes. Although UCR-CoP had created a lot of excitement in many parts of Vietnam in 2014 as demonstrated on the blog, the need for a strengthened sharing culture among me
