This document integrates the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a monitoring tool for area-based recovery interventions, proving insights into the future of cities based on existing trends, challenges, and opportunities in Syria.
United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT)
The paper tries to study and evaluate these factors that lead to faster resilience of the state of Kerala in order to model a flexible and more effective urban resilient planning approach.
In this issue paper, the authors propose a novel overarching framework that promotes a progressive vision for policy and practice to support a transformative urban recovery (Tur). The Tur framework aims to help key stakeholders – including policymakers, health officials, local governments and international agencies – to identify opportunities for achieving multiple benefits in climate resilience, urban health equity and inclusive livelihoods.
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
This status paper has been prepared with the objective of providing an overview of progress in urban housing reconstruction to date, as part of the ongoing Post-earthquake recovery efforts in Nepal.
From 2010 to 2015, Canaan was perhaps the urban settlement with the fastest exponential growth in the Western hemisphere. Technically, Canaan is not a city—at least not in the administrative sense of the term. Nor is it simply a slum on the outskirts of
Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning (Elsevier)
This study has contributed to the identification and analysis of urban recovery issues with the hope that its findings will further guide conceptual discussions and identified key issues to be hindering urban recovery.
The report outlines how cities can drive COVID-19 recovery, tackle climate change, and promote shared prosperity, focusing on six major emerging economies.
The disaster risk reduction (DRR) status report provides a snapshot of the state of DRR in Indonesia under the four priorities of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030.
Asian Disaster Preparedness Center
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Floodplain buyouts are a flood mitigation strategy of acquiring frequently flooded properties and returning them to open space. A primary source of federal funding for post-flood buyouts is the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) administered by the
