Abstract
Urban resilience is increasingly seen as essential to managing the risks and challenges arising in a globally changing, connected, and urbanized world. Hence, cities are central to achieving a range of global development policy commitments adopted over the past few years, ranging from the Paris Climate Agreement to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, knowledge of the ways in which cities are going about implementing resilience or of how such efforts can practically contribute to the implementation of global agendas is still limited. This paper discusses the experience of cities that were members of the 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) network, an entity pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation. It reviews the resilience strategies developed by 100RC members to show that 100RC cities are increasingly aligning their resilience work to global development policies such as the SDGs. It then draws on the case of the city of Cape Town in South Africa to illustrate the process of developing a resilience strategy through 100RC tools and methodologies including the City Resilience Framework (CRF) and City Resilience Index (CRI) and its alignment to the SDGs and reflects on lessons and learnings of Cape Town’s experience for the global city network-policy nexus post-2015.
Highlights
Over the past two decades, the concept of urban resilience has become key to local and global development agendas
This review shows that a growing number of cities are already aligning their resilience strategies to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and/or other related global development policy agendas so as to contribute to their implementation
Drawing on the case of Cape Town, we take a more in-depth look into the process of developing a resilience strategy through 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) tools and methodologies including the City Resilience Framework (CRF) and City Resilience Index (CRI), some of their strengths and weaknesses, and an analysis of the strategy’s alignment with the SDGs
Summary
Over the past two decades, the concept of urban resilience has become key to local and global development agendas. The resilience strategies that have been produced through these assessments represent a potentially useful tool in implementing multiple development agendas that have resilience at their core while building coherence among these different agendas by integrating and institutionalizing resilience in wider city planning and practice This is important because, while cities are acknowledged as crucial actors in the implementation of global development goals and agendas, most of them have been designed by and for national governments, posing a range of challenges for their planning, monitoring, and implementation at the local level [9,10]. This review shows that a growing number of cities are already aligning their resilience strategies to the SDGs and/or other related global development policy agendas so as to contribute to their implementation. Drawing on the case of Cape Town, we take a more in-depth look into the process of developing a resilience strategy through 100RC tools and methodologies including the CRF and CRI, some of their strengths and weaknesses, and an analysis of the strategy’s alignment with the SDGs
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