Resources
INITIATIVES AND COMPETITIONS
(1) Comprehensive Coastal Communities Playbook. Operation Resilient Long Island (ORLI). URL: http://www.3ccompetition.org/3c-playbook.html
ORLI is a student-led grassroots committee of young emerging architecture, interior design, and construction management students from New York Institute of Technology, with campuses in Manhattan and Long Island includes students who were directly affected by the storm. he committee exists as a collaborative response to Superstorm Sandy and all subsequent natural disasters, founded to explore and develop methods to aid local communities by finding long-term resilient building and design solutions.
3C (Comprehensive Coastal Communities) Competition Brief, March 27, 2013 URL: http://www.3ccompetition.org/3c-competition.html (Finalists' entries can be accessed in PDF format at http://www.3ccompetition.org/finalists.html )
The 3C competition intends to catalyze the discussion of rezoning in communities that are vulnerable to coastal storms.
After Super-storm Sandy, thousands of homeowners in Long Island and the NYC metropolitan area face a critical point in determining their future. The 3C competition sought to "crowd-source" creative and innovative designs for comprehensive coastal communities along Long Island, New Jersey, NYC and Southern New England.
Existing homes must now comply with new FEMA regulations. Homes that are deemed 50% or more damaged must be either demolished and reconstructed, or raised above the Base Flood Elevation (BFE). These codes ensure life safety to citizens living in flood plains, however nobody has considered the implications that these new codes present to the overall aesthetics of the community. ORLI asks these questions: What will happen to an entire community once some homes are raised and some remain on the ground? Can a comparable community be envisioned or will the unique aesthetic these communities have be lost forever?
ARTICLES
Danny O. Calleja. "Reforestation of huge mangrove, beachfront forests in Bicol to involve coastal communities." Vox Bikel, posted to blog on April 25, 2015.
Michael Kimmelman, "The Dutch Have Solutions to Rising Seas. The World is Watching." NY Times, June 15, 2017.
REPORTS
Overseas Development Institute, Resilience Scan, January-March 2017. A review of literature, debates and social media on resilience. (Report sections: Resilience on Twitter; Resilience in the grey literature; Resilience in the academic literature; Understanding the characteristics of resilience in 2017 Q1 literature)
The City of New York, One New York (OneNYC): The Plan for a Strong and Just City.
The World Bank, Investing in Urban Resilience: Protecting and Promoting Development in a Changing World. (2015) [Chapter 2, "Why Urban Resilience Matters to the Urban Poor" is especially informative]
PROJECTS
United Nations Development Programme's Climate Change Adaptation website featured projects:
- "Improving resilience of vulnerable coastal communities to climate change in Viet nam"
- "Saving Lives, Protecting Agriculture Based Livelihoods in Malawi (M-Climes)"
- "Tuvalu Coastal Adaptation Project"
- "Integrated Flood Management to Enhance Climate Resilience of the Vaisigano River Catchment in Samoa"
- "Building Resilient Communities, Wetland Ecosystems and Associated Catchments in Uganda"
- "Enhancing Resilience of Vulnerable Coastal Areas to Climate Change Risks in Liberia"
- "Enhancing Resilience of Coastal Communities of Samoa to Climate Change"
Rebuild By Design (URL: http://www.rebuildbydesign.org/) "Who We Are" webpage
Our cities were built in response to yesterday’s problems. As the world faces rising populations, climate change, and economic challenges, communities can’t afford to wait until after the next hurricane or flood, or ignore chronic stresses such as aging infrastructure and pollution, to plan for the future. Rebuild By Design is reimagining the way communities find solutions for today’s large-scale, complex problems.
Rebuild by Design convenes a mix of sectors - including government, business, non-profit, and community organizations - to gain a better understanding of how overlapping environmental and human-made vulnerabilities leave cities and regions at risk. Rebuild’s core belief is that through collaboration our communities can grow stronger and better prepared to stand up to whatever challenges tomorrow brings.
"100 Resilient Cities (100RC)" Project, Rebuild by Design partnership; 100 Resilient Cities Platform
100 Resilient Cities was created in part to help solve two key problems: (1) cities are complex ecosystems, resistant to change and made up of a myriad group of systems and actors; and (2) existing solutions aren’t scaling or are not being shared more broadly. In other words, cities constantly find themselves reinventing the wheel.
Our platform of partners, one of the four key offerings we provide our cities, is designed to help address the second problem. Through our Platform Partners, 100 Resilient Cities provides member cities with access to a curated suite of resilience-building tools and services supplied by a carefully selected platform of partners from the private, public, academic, and non-profit sectors.
What is Urban Resilience? (webpage URL: http://www.100resilientcities.org/resources/)
100RC Urban resilience strategies: New York City (OneNYC); New Orleans; Boston; San Juan; Honolulu: Melbourne, Australia:
VIDEOS
United Nations Development Programme's Climate Change Adaptation website featured videos:
- Waters of Paradise - Adapting to Climate Change in the Maldives (Maldives)
- National Adaptation Plans: Building Climate Resilience in Agriculture - Zipora's Story (Kenya)
- Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Change (Myanmar, Cambodia)
- Enhancing Adaptive Capacity of Communities in PNG - A Success Story (Papua New Guinea)
- Our Family's Livelihood (Guatemala)
- Ancient water tanks of Sri Lanka to adapt to a changing climate (Sri Lanka)
- Collecting Data, Saving Lives: Strengthening Climate Information & Early Warning Systems in Uganda (Uganda)
- Canada-UNDP Climate Change Adaptation Facility Video (Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Haiti, Mali, Cambodia, Niger, Sudan)
- SWoCK Project: Women and Climate Change Adaptation (Solomon Islands) More information about the project available at www.swock.com.sb
- Climate Change in the Pacific: COASTS (Pacific Nation island-states)