Tomorrow's Cities: An Interdisciplinary Decision Support Environment for Risk Sensitive Urban Planning and Design
Description:
Understanding, modeling, quantifying, and managing future risks from natural hazards is becoming increasingly crucial as the climate changes, the human population grows, asset wealth accumulates, and societies become more urbanized and interconnected in many parts of the world. This is especially true in low-income contexts. The 2015-2030 Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction recognizes this need, emphasizing the importance of preparing for the disasters that our world may face tomorrow through strategies to minimize uncontrolled development/densification in hazardous areas. Assessing and communicating future natural hazard risk can support decision-making on urban development in planning and designing less-exposed and more resilient cities and regions. This presentation discusses these efforts, introducing the risk-based, pro-poor urban planning and design framework (and its implementing Decision Support Environment, DSE) developed within the Tomorrow's Cities project, the United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI) Global Challenge Research Fund (GCRF) Urban Disaster Risk Hub. The Hub aims to support the delivery of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals and priorities 1 to 3 of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. Specifically, the Tomorrow's Cities DSE integrates physics-based natural hazard modeling, dynamic exposure and vulnerability modeling of infrastructure systems and networks (physical and social), consideration of multi-hazard scenarios, and participatory approaches for identifying impact metrics tailored to the specific context and needs of marginalized communities. The presentation showcases the Tomorrow's Cities DSE implementation in Kathmandu, Nepal, where methodologies and guidelines for action-oriented, pro-poor, earthquake-risk-based decision-making are co-produced with local, national, and global stakeholders and research partners.
Session: Creating Actionable Earthquake Information Products - II
Type: Oral
Date: 5/1/2024
Presentation Time: 10:45 AM (local time)
Presenting Author: Carmine
Student Presenter: No
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Authors
Carmine Galasso Presenting Author Corresponding Author c.galasso@ucl.ac.uk University College London |
Tomorrow's Cities Programme Working Group Tomorrow's Cities Programme Working Group support@tomorrowscities.org The University of Edinburgh |
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Tomorrow's Cities: An Interdisciplinary Decision Support Environment for Risk Sensitive Urban Planning and Design
Category
Creating Actionable Earthquake Information Products