https://www.projectaware.org/diver/srike
For over 25 years we responded to the threats our ocean faces and we’ve had some incredible successes
Deals with water. Just found.
Could be linked with watch the water and also 14 fish.
led me to http://www.100resilientcities.org/
Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation
https://www.projectaware.org/news/urban-ocean-initiative-fight-ocean-plastic
is where i found. Sorry for the sloppy digging
http://100resilientcities.org/resources/#section-1
**Note >>>helps with acute shocks of earthquakes floods…:
What is Urban Resilience?
Cities face a growing range of adversities and challenges in the 21st century. From the effects of climate change to growing migrant populations to inadequate infrastructure to pandemics to cyber-attacks. Resilience is what helps cities adapt and transform in the face of these challenges, helping them to prepare for both the expected and the unexpected.
100RC defines urban resilience as “the capacity of individuals, communities, institutions, businesses, and systems within a city to survive, adapt, and grow no matter what kinds of chronic stresses and acute shocks they experience.”
Building urban resilience requires looking at a city holistically: understanding the systems that make up the city and the interdependencies and risks they may face. By strengthening the underlying fabric of a city and better understanding the potential shocks and stresses it may face, a city can improve its development trajectory and the well-being of its citizens.
CHRONIC STRESSES
Chronic stresses are slow moving disasters that weaken the fabric of a city. They include:
high unemployment
overtaxed or inefficient public transportation system
endemic violence
chronic food and water shortages
ACUTE SHOCKS
On the other hand, acute shocks are sudden, sharp events that threaten a city, including:
earthquakes
floods
disease outbreaks
terrorist attacks
Of course, the challenges cities face often aren’t a single shock or stress. Most cities face a combination of these challenges, which can contribute to further threatening a city’s resilience. A good example of this is Hurricane Katrina, which hit the southeastern U.S. in 2005 with devastating consequences. But it wasn’t Hurricane Katrina alone that led to such a crisis in the city of New Orleans. The storm’s impact was exacerbated by stresses like institutional racism, violence, divestment and aging infrastructure, poverty, lack of macroeconomic transformation, environmental degradation, and other chronic challenges. The compounding pressure of these unaddressed stresses undermined the city’s resilience and, when a terrible shock hit the city, it exposed and exacerbated these weaknesses—ultimately making it far more difficult for the city to bounce back.
Resilience Dividend
Applying a resilience lens leads to better designed projects and policies that address multiple challenges at one time, improving services and saving resources. This is known as the resilience dividend—the net social, economic and physical benefits achieved when designing initiatives and projects in a forward looking, risk aware, inclusive and integrated way.
To learn more about how building resilience helps cities become better in both good times and bad – for all citizens – review The Rockefeller Foundation’s work on the Resilience Dividend.
The City Resilience Framework
What are the characteristics and capacities of a city that can adapt and grow in the face of these challenges? What distinguishes a resilient city from one that collapses in the face of disruption and adversity?
The Rockefeller Foundation partnered with the global design firm Arup to answer those questions. Extensive research and evaluation of cities’ experiences around the world revealed a common set of factors and systems that enhance a city’s ability to survive, adapt, and grow in the face of adversity. The City Resilience Framework (CRF) is the product of that work. It is an invaluable lens to help understand the complexity of cities, and it identifies a series of drivers necessary for a city’s resilience.
The CRF describes the essential systems of a city in terms of four dimensions: Health & Wellbeing; Economy & Society; Infrastructure & Environment; and Leadership & Strategy.
Each dimension contains three “drivers,” which reflect the actions cities can take to improve their resilience. To learn more about a Dimension and its Drivers, click on a portion of the circle below.
We also recommend you read the full text describing the City Resilience Framework here, which includes more detail as well as case studies that apply these concepts to city examples. While the CRF isn’t a definition of urban resilience, it is a useful tool to help cities explore the strengths and weaknesses of its systems. 100RC uses several diagnostic tools based on the CRF in its work with cities to examine interdependencies and diagnose where to build their capacities.
Characteristics of Resilient Systems
Finally, just understanding the systems of a city isn’t sufficient. In order to build a city’s resilience, those systems must be designed and functioning in a way that they can withstand, respond to, and adapt more readily to shocks and stresses. The CRF builds on decades of research on resilient systems, and identifies 7 characteristics that various city systems need.
Reflective
using past experience to inform future decisions
Resourceful
recognizing alternative ways to use resources
Inclusive
prioritize broad consultation to create a sense of shared ownership in decision making
Integrated
bring together a range of distinct systems and institutions
Robust
well-conceived, constructed, and managed systems
Redundant
spare capacity purposefully created to accommodate disruption
Flexible
willingness, ability to adopt alternative strategies in response to changing circumstances
WHAT WE'RE READING
Outside resources that inspire us and inform our work
FROM RESPONSE TO RESILIENCE: WORKING WITH CITIES AND CITY PLANS TO ADDRESS URBAN DISPLACEMENT
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE
QUARTERLY RESILIENCE SCAN
FROM THE OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
INSPIRING FUTURE CITIES & URBAN SERVICES
FROM WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
INVESTING IN URBAN RESILIENCE
FROM WORLD BANK
http://100resilientcities.org/about-us/
About Us
100 Resilient Cities—Pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation (100RC) is dedicated to helping cities around the world become more resilient to the physical, social and economic challenges that are a growing part of the 21st century.
100RC supports the adoption and incorporation of a view of resilience that includes not just the shocks—earthquakes, fires, floods, etc.—but also the stresses that weaken the fabric of a city on a day to day or cyclical basis.
Examples of these stresses include high unemployment; an overtaxed or inefficient public transportation system; endemic violence; or chronic food and water shortages. By addressing both the shocks and the stresses, a city becomes more able to respond to adverse events, and is overall better able to deliver basic functions in both good times and bad, to all populations.
Cities in the 100RC network are provided with the resources necessary to develop a roadmap to resilience along four main pathways:
Financial and logistical guidance for establishing an innovative new position in city government, a Chief Resilience Officer, who will lead the city’s resilience efforts
Expert support for development of a robust Resilience Strategy
Access to solutions, service providers, and partners from the private, public and NGO sectors who can help them develop and implement their Resilience Strategies
Membership of a global network of member cities who can learn from and help each other.
Through these actions, 100RC aims not only to help individual cities become more resilient, but will facilitate the building of a global practice of resilience among governments, NGOs, the private sector, and individual citizens.
100 Resilient Cities—Pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation is financially supported by The Rockefeller Foundation and managed as a sponsored project by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA), an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides governance and operational infrastructure to its sponsored projects.
100RC has staff and offices in New York, London, Mexico City, and Singapore to support the work in cities across regions.
Our History
100 Resilient Cities was created by the Rockefeller Foundation on the foundation’s Centennial in 2013. We began working with our first group of 32 cities in December of 2013. In 2014, we received 330 applications from 94 countries for our second cohort, and we announced the 35 cities of round 2 in December. The third 100 Resilient Cities Challenge closed in November of 2015 and we announced our final group of cities in May 2016.
Members of the 100 Resilient Cities team and a panel of expert judges reviewed over 1,000 applications from prospective cities. The judges looked for innovative mayors, a recent catalyst for change, a history of building partnerships, and an ability to work with a wide range of stakeholders.
https://www.projectaware.org/news/urban-ocean-initiative-fight-ocean-plastic
PRESS RELEASES
By Ocean Conservancy
7 MARCH 2019 | 1:03 AM
ABU DHABI, UAE – At the Economist World Ocean Summit today Ocean Conservancy, 100 Resilient Cities, Circulate Capital, SecondMuse, and the Trash Free Seas Alliance® announced the launch of Urban Ocean, a new initiative to engage cities in the fight for clean, healthy seas by improving municipal waste collection and management systems. Working with leaders from city governments, academia, civil society and the private sector, the platform will develop best practices for embedding the reduction of marine plastic waste into other core city priorities like public health, economic growth and job creation………