Month: July 2016

CUDRR+R participated at the UN High Level Forum on Implementing the Sendai Framework for Disaster for Disaster Risk Reduction at Local Level in Florence, Italy on June 16 – 17, 2016.

CUDRR+R’s Executive Director Ebru Gencer presented at a panel on Disaster risk governance at the local level, which was moderated by Prof. Dilanthi Amaratunga, Co-Director of the Global Disaster Resilience Centre at the University of Huddersfield, UK.

For more information:

Program Agenda

Website

“The Florence Way Forward”

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In lieu and on the occasion of the 50-year anniversary of the devastating Florence floods, the Government of Italy and the City of Florence in partnership with the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) are organizing a High Level Forum gathering Ministers, Mayors, policymakers, local government authorities, private sector, experts and partners from across the world with interests and engagement in local and urban resilience and disaster risk reduction.

The high level forum will:

• Highlight the importance of disaster risk reduction at the core of the sustainable development and climate change agendas.
• Provide inputs towards the preparations of Habitat III Conference (Quito, 2016), The Climate Change COP22 (Marrakesh, 2016), and the Fifth Global Platform on DRR (Cancun, 2017).
• Promote coherence in local level implementation of the post-2015 international agreements (i.e. the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Sustainable Development Goals –SDGs, and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change)

CUDRR+R partners with Asian Development Bank for the report “Reducing Disaster Risk by Managing Urban Land Use – Guidance Notes for Planners.”

Read the full publication: here.

In order to reduce disaster risk through urban land use management processes, urban planners need technical capacity to interpret disaster risk information and its potential implications for a city’s landscape. Planners may require political support and practical guidance on suitable entry points to incorporates disaster risk considerations into land use management processes, while recognizing that in doing so there may be financial, social, and political implications. This guidance note series is written for urban planners for the purpose of providing such directions.

Case studies include the following cities:

• Reducing Disaster Risk Through Land use Planning in Caterbury, New Zealand
• Use of Flood Modeling For Urban Development in Da Nang, Viet Nam
• The Role of Building Codes and Planning Systems in Reducing Earthquake Risk in Chile
• Reducing Disaster Risk in Urban Areas Through Urban Redevelopment, Istanbul, Turkey