Strengthening the Nexus of ‘Urban’ and ‘Climate’: Urban Climate Change Resilience Training for Urban
By: Dr. Prof. Do Hau, VUPDA, Tho Nguyen & Thanh Ngo, ISET-Vietnam Originally posted by UCR-CoP Above: An Van Duong New Urban Area, Thua Thien Hue Province In the wake of tremendous losses from abnormal natural disasters recently, cities and provinces in Vietnam—coastal, river delta, mountainous and highland alike—are more and more acutely aware of the growing threats from climate change. However, city planners, academics, and urban policy makers still have limited recognition of climate change resilience approach in urban development. This is a dominant story line highlighted by the work of the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) and many other climate change resilience p
On July 29th, 2015, Dr. Marcus Moench, Michelle Fox, and Christopher Moench presented the results the Resilience Narratives project at a luncheon hosted by the Rockefeller Foundation. The theme of the event was the collaboration of art and science to communicate concepts of resilience. Given the complexity and nuances of science, and the difficulty of communicating these subjects across cultural and disciplinary barriers, ISET-International recognized the need to communicate in a new way. While the Resilience Narratives project is firmly grounded in research and science, the results of the project are communicated in innovative, non-traditional formats. Some of the products produced include:
