Resilient communities
Resilient cities and communities: the new global imperative
At the forum participants learnt about how urban resilience is 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.
Presentations from the forum are available below.
- Community cohesion and resilience - Mark Duckworth, Chief Resilience Officer, Department of Premier and Cabinet, Victoria (PowerPoint - 974KB)
- Designing and building a 21st century livable society - Dr Peter Ellyard, Chairman of the Preferred Futures Institute (PowerPoint - 112KB)
- Designing urban villages: Town & country - James Lunday, Principal, Common Ground Studio, NZ (PDF - 9.05MB)
- Developing food resilience in cities - Suzette Jackson, Director, Innate Ecology (PDF - 4.36MB)
- Enhancing the natural environment and ecosystem services - James Fitzsimons, The Nature Conservancy (PowerPoint - 16.4MB)
- Helping individuals and families be better prepared to manage shocks and stresses - Adam Mooney, CEO, Good Shepherd Microfinance & Annabelle Butler, Manager, Affordability Suncorp (PowerPoint - 2.20MB)
- How Casserole is helping to build resilient cities - Jonathan Yeates, FutureGov (PDF - 2.81MB)
- Living well sustainably together - Rafaele Joudry, NZ (PowerPoint - 14.0MB)
- Multi-stranded resilience through strong city centres - Rod Duncan FPIA, Principal, Good City (PowerPoint - 2.75MB)
- Placemaking for resilience - Gilbert Rochecouste, founder Village Well (PDF - 9.14MB)
- Reinventing neighbourhoods: Using tactical urbanism to build resilient communities - Lucinda Hartley, Co-founder, CoDesign Studio and Cities by Citizens (PowerPoint - 37.9MB)
- Resilient, sustainable cities: A future - Dr Leonie J. Pearson, Ecological economist (PowerPoint - 6.87MB)
- Resilient cities: Outputs, themes, ideas, questions (PowerPoint - 92.7KB)
- Shared value: Economic distress of our community/meeting unmet needs of society - Annabelle Butler, Manager, Affordability Suncorp (PowerPoint - 3.26MB)
- Social resilience - Janet Stanley, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne (PDF - 3.97MB)
- Survive and bounce back - Craig Lapsley, Emergency Management Commissioner, EMV (PowerPoint - 804KB)
- The top ten things we have come to understand in catalysing resilience transformation - Professor Chris Ryan, Director of the Victorian Eco Innovation Lab (VEIL), the University of Melbourne (PDF - 5.47MB)
- Transforming Australia to remain resilient - Dr Brian Walker, Program Director and Chair of the Board of the Resilience Alliance (PowerPoint - 115KB)
- Urban resilience as a global imperative - Nicola Thomson, Associate Director, City Relationships, 100 Resilient Cities Initiative (PowerPoint - 13.6MB)