Ongoing population growth provokes a series of questions about its key drivers such as gender inequality and low educational standards, validity of current private and public sector economic development instruments, and the role new means such as social media and digitization can play in achieving 2030 Agenda’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – experts weight in as part of FIW Bonn’s 5th edition of ‘A Changing World’ event series.
PPP Workshop Radical Cities and Rebel Democracies During last week Tuesday’s closing event of Postdemocratic Picture Party’s exhibition “I got a Feeling of Democracy when it was gone” at Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) in Bonn, I engagée Magazin joined the party and took us on a tour through “Radical Cities and Rebel Democracies”. Here […]
Resilient Cities 2018 – ICLEI Global Measuring Urban Resilience and Evaluating Impacts How Resilient Is Your City? City Resilience Profiling Tool is published as part of the Resilient Cities 2018 – The Global Forum on Urban Resilience series and discusses at hand of local, national and international examples from Mozambique, Bloomington (USA), Germany and the EU […]
Resilient Cities 2018 – ICLEI Global How Resilient Is Your City? City Resilience Profiling Tool How Resilient Is Your City? City Resilience Profiling Tool is published as part of the Resilient Cities 2018 – The Global Forum on Urban Resilience series and covers UN Habitat City Resilience Profiling Programme’s (CRPP’s) urban resilience assessment, advocacy and enhancement […]
Resilient Cities 2018 first roundtable on developing standardized risk-oriented resilience assessment tools of local climate change impact and vulnerabilities as well as balancing complexity, capacity and consistency to be flexible for local application while remaining compatibility between cases.
Nature-based Solutions (NBS) their multiple benefits for urban resilience and adaptation to climate change, transforming urban spaces and planning processes in the interests of more livable and resilient cities, and the supportive framework conditions for implementing and mainstreaming NBS.
Resilient Cities 2018 – ICLEI Global Assessing Urban Risk and Vulnerability and Prioritizing Action Assessing Urban Risk and Vulnerability and Prioritizing Action is published as part of the Resilient Cities 2018 – The Global Forum on Urban Resilience series and takes us from prioritization of actions and investments in policy decisions in Can Tho (Vietnam), Addis Ababa […]
Identifying and unveiling the dormant potential of private sector Micro, Small and Medium Sized Enterprises’ (MSMEs) climate change adaptation gap and implementing Nature-based Solutions (NBS) as a Disaster Resilience Enhancement (DRE) tool with benefits for multiple sectors.
With an urbanization rate of 33% and Vientiane as its leading force, Laos is currently on the urbanization-highway. Opening up to free-market mechanisms in order to follow up with and utilize Asia’s regional political and economical growth, by means of attracting Direct Foreign Investment, gives rise to the question of who’s the actual driver of Laos economic as well as socio-spatial and cultural development, and if the direction the country is heading towards is compatible with the ideas of the Laotian population.
Resilient Cities 2018, organized by ICLEI, offered a dialogue forum for international climate stakeholders to track progress on the resilience targets of SDG 11 and implementing Agenda 2030, exchange knowledge and determine what further climate actions need to be taken to make our cities more resilient and develop a new and sustainable type of urban development, reconnecting men and nature rather than defending men from nature.