An online event about the key messages of the recent World Disasters Report, 2020.
Webinar: Come Heat or High Water
Published at: 7 December 2020
Resilience and Risks Mitigation Strategies
ACTIVITIES & INITIATIVES
ACTIVITIES & INITIATIVES
- Co-organizing Track 19 Resilient and Sustainable Territories at the annual conference in Lisbon, 2017
- Roundtable Vulnerability Analysis in Planning Education, AESOP conference, Lisbon 2017
PAST ACTIVITIES (most recent first)
- Online survey of planning schools on education for disaster risk reduction launched in 2016.
- Co-organise a track on Climate Change, Resource Management, Sustainability & Environmental Justice.at World Planning Schools Conference (WPSC), Rio de Janeiro, 2016
- Plenary session on planning educaton for disaster risk reduction at WPSC, 2016.
- Roundtable on planning education for disaster risk reduction at Prague annual conference 2015 with support of UNISDR.
- Special workshop on European Best Practices in RRMS for UNISDR – to be organized by Cassidy Johnson, DPU. London (tbd – possibly March 2014)
- Prepare proposal for a Marie Curie Initial Training Network related to RRMS
- Organise a roundtable at AESOP Congress, Delft/Utrecht The Netherlands
- Organise thematic group meeting at AESOP Congress, Delft/Utrecht The Netherlands
- open a debate among members for the development and the definition of a "shared glossary” on the concepts related to resilience and risk mitigation (activity to be proposed during the 2014 AESOP Congress in Delft/Utrecht)
- Upgrade communication infrastructure for RRMS (AESOP website, Linkedin, Facebook etc.)
- 2013, July _ 15th AESOP-ACSP Joint congress in Dublin + RRMS Meeting
- 2012, July _ 26th Annual Congress in Ankara, Turkey - Session/track 12.Vulnerabilities, Risks and Mitigation Planning + RRMS Meeting
- 2010, February _Planning & Complexity TG _ Workshop ‘Resilient Cities’, Stockholm 26-27 February 2010 - workshop on resilience, join activity with the Complexity and planning AESOP TG : RRMS join the workshop
- 2010, July _ 2010 AESOP Annual Congress - Helsinki (Finland), 7th-10th July - RRMS meeting
- 2009, September _ RRMS meeting in Milano (Politecnico di Milano) - RRMS: discussion on new perspectives and activities
- 2009, July 2009 _ 2009 AESOP Annual Congress - Liverpool (UK), 15th-18th July - RRMS meeting
- 2009, March _ Workshop, at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Ist of Leipzig - RRMS workshop “Resilience planbar?” a workshop on the resilience
- 2008, September _ official publication of RRMS documentation on the AESOP website
- 2008, July _ 6-11 July 2008, Chicago, USA: AESOP-ACSP Joint congress, "Bridging the Divide: Celebrating the City” - RRMS organised a round table “Vulnerability vx. Resilience. Visions for cities future” (keynotes speakers: Steiner Frederick, OLSHANSKY Robert B., Greiving Stefan; Moderators: HUTTER Gérard, Colucci Angela, Samakovlija Marcella) + RRMS TG meeting
- 2008, April_ response of AESOP Committee: the RRMS is an official thematic group
- 2007, December _ workshop on RRMS proposal, Milano Politecnico di Milano - Focus on aims/activities/structures of RRMS and official documentation for AESOP committee
- 2007, July _ AESOP Congresses - Naples 2007- 'Planning in the Risk Society' _ First proposal/discussion on the RRMS thematic group foundation
Annual report of AESOP Resilience and Risks Management Strategies Thematic Group
Open access ebook: "Dull disasters?"
Published at: 12 August 2020
This ebook is freely available via the World Bank's Open Knowledge Repository.
“Clarke, Daniel J.; Dercon, Stefan. 2016. Dull Disasters? : How Planning Ahead Will Make a Difference. New York: Oxford University Press. © World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/24805 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”
“Clarke, Daniel J.; Dercon, Stefan. 2016. Dull Disasters? : How Planning Ahead Will Make a Difference. New York: Oxford University Press. © World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/24805 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”
Guiding Principles for City Climate Action Planning from UN HABITAT
Published at: 11 December 2017
Recently UN-HABITAT and some of its partners have collaborated to produce a set of guidlines for national and local authorities who are striving to make cities more climate resilient. Details cane found via this link:
https://unhabitat.org/the-guiding-principles/
https://unhabitat.org/the-guiding-principles/
New UNISDR Guidebooks released
Published at: 15 June 2017
UNISDR has recently released consultative versions of three new guidebooks related to disaster risk reduction, including one specifically focussed on Land Use and Urban Planning. RRMS member, Dr. Cassidy Johnson, Development Planning Unit, UCL UK, has been instrumental in the preparation of these guidelines.
RRMS Group on Linkedin
Published at: 7 December 2015
In order to facilitate faster and better communication between AESOP members with an interest in Resilience and Risks Mitigation Strategies a new...