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Second Volume of the Resilience Learning Module Launched at the Innovate4Cities Conference
Second Volume of the Resilience Learning Module: Strategies and Actions, which provides practical approaches to resilience-building for local, metropolitan, and regional governments, is launched during the #Innovate4Cities Conference. The second volume of the Learning...
The Role and Challenges of Local Governments in Achieving the Resilience of Critical Infrastructure
The availability of robust and resilient infrastructure influences the sustainable and resilient development of cities and territories. This paper, jointly written by CUDRR+R’s Ebru Gencer, UNDRR’s Abhilash Panda, and University of Huddersfield’s Dilanthi Amaratunga,...
Traditional Knowledge for DRR and Resilience
Traditional knowledge for disaster risk reduction develops through the close relationship of communities with their environment. This accumulated knowledge based on the direct experience with disasters enables the communities to not only build resilience...
Presenting the New Learning Module on Resilient Cities
CUDRR+R participated at the Fourth Forum of Territorial Managers and Training Institutes in Africa to present the new UCLG – UN-Habitat- UNDRR Learning Module on Resilient Cities and Territories. The learning module authored by...
Berlin Security Conference
CUDRR+R’s Ebru Gencer was a panelist the International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) Session on Climate Change and Urban Displacement at Berlin Security Conference on September 2020. The Session moderated by IIED’s Lucy Earle focused on...
Seed Grant from Royal Academy of Engineers
We are very happy to announce that CUDRR+R and partners’ project on “Low-carbon seismic resistant building model for Istanbul” received seed-funding from the UK Royal Academy of Engineers. We look forward to working on...
Last Steering Committee Meeting of the Making Cities Resilient Campaign
CUDRR+R’s Ebru Gencer attended the final Steering Committee Meeting of UNDRR’s Making Cities Resilient Campaign. The Campaign which was originally launched in 2010 is moving into a new phase to allow for addressing the...
CUDRR+R Statement on Racial Injustice and Equitable Resilience
CUDRR+R Statement on Racial Injustice and Equitable Resilience The Center for Urban Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience (CUDRR+R) is a non-profit research center with a mission to produce knowledge and undertake practices and...
Right-to-Heal
Esra Akcan, CUDRR+R Board Member and Cornell University Professor of Architecture received the prestigious Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship. During her time at Harvard, Akcan researched her next book project, Right-to-heal: Architecture in Post-Conflict and...
Resilience Learning Module: Localizing the Sendai Framework for DRR
United Cities Local Governments (UCLG) the international organization that represents Local Governments and their Associations tasked CUDRR+R’s Ebru Gencer to develop a Resilience Learning Module that will support Localization of the Sendai Framework across...