Workshop on Tools and Indicators for Assessing Urban Resilience

December 7-10, 2015, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Workshop Agenda(PDF, 248 KB)

December 7

Measuring Urban Resilience

Chairs: Ayyoob Sharifi, Yoshiki Yamagata

Opening remarks by the hosts: Yoshiki Yamagata,
Kensuke Fukushi

Workshop outline/rationale: Ayyoob Sharifi

An overview of existing tools for assessing urban resilience: Ayyoob Sharifi

Climate Disaster Resilience Indexing of Asian Cities: An Action Based Approach(PDF, 4.06 MB): Rajib Shaw

Urban Resilience: Methodological Foundations and Resilience Matrix Approach: Cate Fox-Lent,
Igor Linkov

Towards the development of an integrated Sustainability and Resilience Benefits Assessment (SRBA) framework of urban interventions(PDF, 4.76 MB): Grafakos Stelios et al.

Urban Resilience and Transformation: Implications for assessment indicators(PDF, 5.85 MB): Marta Olazabal

What's under the city resilience umbrella? Aligning Resilience and the Urban 2030 Agenda(PDF, 2.09 MB): Lorenzo Chelleri

Discussion and wrap up: All

Resilience planning in the Asia-Pacific region

Chairs: Rajib Shaw, Darryn McEvoy

A System for Evaluating the Resilience Value of Disaster Recovery Projects: The Case of Hurricane Sandy and Irene in New York(PDF, 26.7 MB): Judd Schechtman

Building urban climate resilience – lessons learned from Thailand and the Mekong region(PDF, 1.09 MB): Pakamas Thinphanga

Resilient institutions=vulnerable people? A longitudinal case study of flood management institutions in marginalized settlements in Russia(PDF, 3.26 MB): Lily Yumagulova

Approach to mainstreaming climate change resilience in urban planning and development: Case of Ahmedabad, India(PDF, 2.73 MB): Minal Pathak

Enhancing urban resilience through energy efficiency measures in the residential buildings of Dhaka city(PDF, 4.17 MB): Md. Humayun Kabir

Coastal urban climate resilience planning in Quy Nhon, Vietnam(PDF, 3.85 MB): Vu Kim Chi

Assessment of vulnerabilities and adaptation actions in the Solomon Islands(PDF, 5.29 MB): Jamal Namo

Identification of Human & Economic Resilience Indicators in Climate Resilience Review(PDF, 1.20 MB): Fanni Harliani

Framework and indicators for climate compatible urban development(PDF, 512 KB): Ashish Shrestha

Discussion and wrap up: All

December 8

Resilience planning in the Asia-Pacific region (continued)

Chairs: Yoshiki Yamagata, Susie Moloney

Empowering Communities: Visualization Tools for Building Climate Change Awareness and Resilience(PDF, 10.7 MB): Stephen Sheppard

Monitoring and evaluating progress towards becoming a more adaptive and resilient region: lessons from Melbourne(PDF, 1.59 MB): Susie Moloney

Vulnerability and resilience of cities in developing countries on health risk caused by climate change and urbanization(PDF, 2.65 MB): Kensuke Fukushi

Systems Resilience: Taxonomy and General Strategies: Hiroshi Maruyama,
Kazuhiro Minami

Urban Morphology: Applications, Issues and Prospects for Resiliency Assessment(PDF, 1.67 MB): Paul Stangl

Development and Application of Web-based Geographical Information System to Assess Urban Resilience: Land Use and Infrastructure Planning for the Greater Nagoya Region, Japan(PDF, 8.35 MB): Akito Murayama et al.

Discussion and wrap up: All

December 9

Concluding session on Urban Resilience indicators

Chairs: Perry Yang, Yoshiki Yamagata

Land Use Scenarios for Assessing Urban Resilience: Yoshiki Yamagata

Energy Resilient Urban Systems: A Design Perspective: Perry P. J. Yang

Future Urbanization and the Management of Urban Heat Risk(PDF, 5.64 MB): Peter Marcotullio

Linking Knowledge to Action — Urban Resilience, Social Innovations, and Community Energy: Christian Dimmer

Discussion and wrap up: All

WUDAPT project development in collaboration with URCM

Chairs: Linda See, Johannes Feddema

The Urban Knowledge Network (UKAN)(PDF, 272 KB): Xuemei Bai

The WUDAPT initiative: overview, data collection and progress to date(PDF, 7.60 MB): Linda See

Applications of WUDAPT(PDF, 6.73 MB): Johannes Feddema

The WUDAPT agenda: Johannes Feddema,
Linda See

Possible Support of Geospatial Data Provision to the WUDAPT and UKAN(PDF, 7.45 MB): Hiroyuki Miyazaki et al.

Panel discussion: All

Wrap up