Approaches to Developing Cities Resilience Strategies in Asian Cities

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Approaches to Developing Cities Resilience
Strategies in Asian Cities
Kai Kim Chiang Sarah Reed
Cities at Risk Building Adaptive Capacities for
Managing Climate Change Risks in Asian Coastal
Cities 11-13 April 2011, Taipei
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Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network

• Conceived funded by Rockefeller Foundation
• 5 year program covering 10 medium size cities in
  Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam and India
• aims to
• catalyze attention, funding, and action on
  building climate change resilience for poor and
  vulnerable people in cities
• create robust models and methodologies for
  assessing and addressing climate risk
• implement local adaptation measures
• build recognition and support for urban climate
  resilience

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Overall ACCCRN Process
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Cities Resilience Strategies

• PurposeTo integrate climate resilience thinking
  into planning procedures in order to enable
  vulnerable groups living in cities to anticipate,
  respond to and recover from projected climate
  change impacts
• All ten of the ACCCRN cities have developed or
  are in the process of finalizing their City
  Resilience Strategies

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Cities Resilience StrategiesFunctions
Attributes

1. Broad guidance document prepared by local
   stakeholders or government
2. Provides the context, evidence and analysis to
   justify adaptation actions
3. Sets priorities for resilience actions
4. Consistent with existing planning documents and
   process (can be easily used by local government
   agencies)
5. Provides guidance for private sector and civil
   society to undertake their own adaptation actions
6. Links and coordinates complementary activities
   for donor funding

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Cities Resilience Strategies Inputs
Science and Local Knowledge
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Cities Resilience Strategies Tools used

• Use of inputs from SLD process (vulnerability
  assessments, sector studies, pilot projects)
• Climate and urban development scenarios
• Qualitative prioritization tools

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Scenario Development Indore, India
Source Indore City Resilience Strategy, 2010
(TARU Leading Edge)
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Cost-Benefit Analysis Da Nang, Vietnam
Source Da Nang City Climate Change Action Plan
(2011)
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Multi-variable Criteria Analysis - Da Nang,
Vietnam
Source Da Nang City Climate Change Action Plan
(2011)
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Prioritized Adaptation Actions Da Nang, Vietnam
Source Da Nang City Climate Change Action Plan
(2011)
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ACCCRN Resilience Strategies 1

• Resilience planning was strategic
• All strategies sought optimize limited resources
  for actionable roadmap
• Links to policies, plans and funding sources of
  local and higher level government
• Approaches tailored to each context
• Plans adopted a single frame of analysis for
  vulnerability and actions (sector, hazard, site)

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Adaptation Actions by Hazard Da Nang, Vietnam
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Adaptation Actions by Sector Surat, India
Source TARU (2010), Surat City Resilience
Strategy
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Water-logging Risk FrameGorakhpur, India
Source Towards a Resilience Gorakhpur, GEAG
(2010)
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ACCCRN Resilience Strategies 2
Typical issues of concern
Awareness Raising
Coordination
Disaster Risk Reduction
Major Infrastructure
Further detailed studies before large scale
investment
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ACCCRN Resilience Strategies 3

• Partners managed the uncertainty of climate
  change projections and incorporated climate
  impacts in their strategies, through
• Responding to existing climate vulnerabilities
• Scenario development
• Using no-regrets strategies
• Identifying maladaptation risks
• Detailed studies of key issues

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Preliminary Outcomes

• New multi-stakeholder planning processes put in
  place using new tools
• Capacity building for key stakeholders
• Issues affecting vulnerable groups central to
  plans
• New concepts and new information from outside
  sources applied to local planning
• Cities have platform for ongoing learning and
  planning

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Process of Resilience Strategy Development -
Lessons and Challenges

• Small, core group of local stakeholders
• Ability to collaborate NOT technical expertise
  is critical
• Flexible timelines required
• Challenge of engaging vulnerable groups
• Support from political leadership is double edged
  sword

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Key Lesson

• The process of developing the resilience strategy
  is far more important than the document itself

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Further Information

• Urban Climate Resilience in Concept
  PracticeWorking Paper Series www.i-s-e-t.org
• The Shared Learning Dialogue Building
  Stakeholder Capacity and Engagement for
  Resilience Action
• Observations on the Use of Climate Information in
  Adaptation and Resilience Practice
• Planning for Urban Resilience
• Forthcoming
• The Urban Resilience FrameworkISET and Arup
• Urban Resilience Planning Methods Suite
• Urban Climate Resilience Indicators

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Sarah Orleans Reed sreed_at_i-s-e-t.orgKai Kim
Chiang kaikim_at_i-s-e-t.org www.i-s-e-t.org