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Metropolitan Resilience in

BARCELONA

METROPOLITAN RESILIENCE IN MY CITY

City Context

• Metropolitan Name: Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona
• Metropolitan Area: 636 Km²
• Metropolitan Population: 3,239,337
• Floating Population: >11.5 milion journeys a day (average
• f 3.73 journeys per person/day) / 34% for occupational

reasons

• 8 M Tourists/year (Barcelona)
• Municipal Districts: 36 municipalities
• Other:
• Life expectancy Women 85,4 / Men 79,8
• Aging population 12,8% under 15 / 14,4 over 65
• Ethnic diversity (1 / 5 inh. foreign origins)
• Other:
• The AMB generates 48% of the GDP in Catalonia and 10% in
• Spain. In 25 years the GDP has almost doubled.
• The AMB (2% of territory) contains half the total of jobs in

Catalonia.(1,452,233 jobs)

• In Barcelona 9% of homes under poverty / 20% in Catalonia
• 10,6% energy poverty in Barcelona.

Symbology: Metropolitan Area municipalities City of Barcelona Rivers (Llobregat / Besòs) Collserola Natural Parc

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Risk Profile

68% of the population wihin the area of Barclona are exposed to NO2 levels beyond limits of EU and reference vlaues of WHO 2-3 episodes / year The metropolitan mobility model continues to show signs of unsustainability in mechanised journeys, in which the private car is still the main mode of

• transport. Its participation in mechanised journeys obviously increases the

further we move away from the central area, where the range of transport available is less competitive and the use of private vehicles is at its highest in journeys on the perimeter. This land use has not led to a similar redistribution of businesses or of economic activity in the region. Changes of residence have not been accompanied by changes in the location of jobs, and the situation has therefore created increased demand for mobility. There has been a constant growth in land use in the metropolitan area. Urban land in the Barcelona metropolitan region has multiplied by a factor of 2.2 since the 1980s, but it has increased most in the municipalities in the region outside the metropolitan area.

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Governance Scan

Metropolitan Structures / Arrangements: [e.g. sectoral authorities,

metropolitan governance bodies, voluntary intra-municipality alliances, compacts, etc.]

• Municipal Governments
• Àrea Mertropolitana de Barcelona
• Diputació de Barcelona

Metropolitan Stakeholders: [list key actors from the public sector, resilience

steering committee, academia, business, etc.]

• Municipal Governments
• Àrea Mertropolitana de Barcelona
• Autoritat Transport Metropolità
• Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona
• Barcelona Regional
• CENIT

Financing Mechanisms: [list key financing mechanisms for metropolitan scale

projects, such as formal budgets or public-private-partnerships]

• Public Budgets (AMB, Municipal, Regional, State)
• Private developers
• European Funds

Organizational Chart Jurisdiction

AMB management areas are related to territory and urban planning, mobility, housing, environment economic development and social cohesion. The new public metropolitan administration replaces the three entities existing until 2011: Mancomunitat de Municipis de l'Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona (Union of Municipalities

• f the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona), Environmental Agency and Transport Metropolitan

Agency. This new AMB rationalizes and simplifies the metropolitan governance by creating a single administration.

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Initiative / Challenge Deep Dive

Objective:

• Modal change in the metropolitan mobility in order to reduce the

use of motorized private vehicle, especially in intermunicipal journeys Initiative:

• Implementation of measures to enhance a healthier, more

sustainable metropolitan transport system Key question (s):

• What are the key aspects to address in mobility at a

metropolitan scale (increasing intermodality, reinforcing public transport systems,…)?

• What other social, economic or technological measures could

help achieving this objective (DRT, telecommuting, working- hour flexibility,...) Resilience Values:

• Healthier environment and communities
• Connectivity
• Social equity

Metropolitan Resilience in

BUENOS AIRES

METROPOLITAN RESILIENCE IN MY CITY

City Context

• Metropolitan Name: Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area
• Metropolitan Area: 13.000 km2
• Metropolitan Population: 14 million
• Working Population: 3 million
• Municipal Districts: 40 + 1
• Other: 35% of the country’s population 45% of its GDP
• Other: 50% of jobs in the city are PBA residents. ≈50% of the

city’s healthcare users are from PBA. 3000 tn of waste sent daily from the city to PBA.

• Other: 3 levels of government (federal, provincial, municipal)

and 1 autonomous city in the area

City of Buenos Aires Municipalities of the Province

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Risk Profile

2 4 6 8 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000

Precipitations over 100 mm

CABA PBA

In AMBA, population with highest social vulnerability are located to the south and west north-west of City of Bueno Aires District. These areas areas are also where the higher risks of precipitation are located.

• 2016. Resiliencia
• Urbana. Dialogos

Boths these (west north-west and south) is where most poor population in AMBA inhabits. Theses inner districts have a greater informal settlements participation in overall population, especially where most vulnerable population resides. There is a pattern relating social vulnerability, risks, poverty and informal

• settlements. There is a segregation between peripheries and consolidated central areas.

Very Low Low Medium High Very High Very Low Low Medium High Very High

Anual Precipitation Risk Social Vulnerability Index For Disasters

Stresses and shocks

Source: Preliminary Assesment workshop.

• CABA. Feb.

2017

Unsatisfied Basic Needs (Poverty Index) Informal Settlements participation in

• veral district population

More stresses are identifyed as affecting BA’s resilience than shocks. Informal settlements and housing ; and Floodings are among the primary shocks and stresses.

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Governance Scan

Metropolitan Structures / Arrangements:

SECTORAL:

• CEAMSE (waste)
• ACUMAR & CICAM (watersheds)
• ATM (transport)

INTERSECTORAL:

• COCAMBA
• GABINETE METROPOLITANO

Metropolitan Stakeholders:

• Nation, BA Province, BA City, Municipalities
• Universities: UBA, UNQ, UNGS, CONICET
• Civil sector & Ngos: CIPPEC, FM, CPAU

Financing Mechanisms:

• National, PBA & City budget
• International credit

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Initiative / Challenge Deep Dive

Objective: Improve risk awareness and citizen and government emergency action in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area in face of floods. Initiative: Buenos Aires SIHVIGILA – Metropolitan early warning and awareness system. Key question (s):

• In absence of a metropolitan area authority, are there

coordination mechanisms used by other metropolitan areas for effective prevention, early warning and emergency management regarding flooding in the AMBA region?

• Which strategies have proven effective for achieving more citizen

awareness towards risks and emergency actions? Resilience Values:

• Integrated
• Robust
• Reflexive
• Inclusive

SIHVIGILA CUENCAS

Metropolitan Resilience in

GREATER MANCHESTER

METROPOLITAN RESILIENCE IN MY CITY

City Context

• Metropolitan Name: Greater Manchester
• Metropolitan Area: 1,280 km2
• Metropolitan Population: 2,782,100 (2016)
• Working Population: 7.2m workforce within 1

hours commute

• Municipal Districts: 10 metropolitan boroughs
• Other: There is considerable variation of life

expectancy between small areas within greater Manchester, the highest being 18 years.

• Other: We have an ageing population.

Between 2016 and 2021 the number of people aged over 70 living in Greater Manchester is predicted to increase by 15.2%, while the

• verall population will increase by 3%

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Risk Profile

National risk register Strategic Locations for Growth Indices of Deprivation Highest and lowest MSOA life expectancy in each GM Borough

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Governance Scan

Metropolitan Structures / Arrangements:

• Greater Manchester Combined Authority
• Police and Crime Panel
• GM Health Scrutiny
• Local Enterprise Partnership
• Business Leadership Council
• Greater Manchester Resilience Forum

Metropolitan Stakeholders:

• 10 Local Authorities
• Greater Manchester Police
• Greater Manchester Fire
• Transport for Greater Manchester
• Manchester Growth Company
• NHS

Financing Mechanisms:

• GM Revolving Infrastructure Fund
• Greater Manchester Investment Framework
• Greater Manchester Housing Investment Board

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Initiative / Challenge Deep Dive

Objective:

• To embed a ‘whole-life’ approach to resilience for those who

live, work and visit Greater Manchester Initiative:

• Making resilience everyone's business

Key question (s):

• How can the resilience lens add value to critical points on

someone’s life journey so they grow up, get on or grow old resiliently Resilience Values:

• Transformation
• Adaptation

Metropolitan Resilience in

Greater Miami & the Beaches

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City Context

• Metropolitan Name: Greater Miami & the Beaches
• Metropolitan Area: 2,000 sq miles
• Metropolitan Population: 2.7 million
• Working Population: 248, 782 commuters enter GM&B

daily

• Municipal Districts: 34 cities within the county
• Equity: 66% of population is Hispanic, 52% of the

population is foreign born, 20% of the population lives below the poverty level

• Economy: The top three economic engines, Miami

International Airport, PortMiami, and Tourism, generated approximately $85.5 billion in 2015.

METROPOLITAN RESILIENCE IN MY CITY

Risk Profile

Water attracted many us here- as we adapt to more water, how can we thrive socially, environmentally, and economically? How can we leverage and protect the Everglades and Biscayne Bay? This discovery area will focus investing in natural and man-made infrastructure to rise above and learn to live with water to create a more resilient community in the face of storms and sea level rise.

Risk Profile

Top Stresses

GROWING TRAFFIC CONGESTION SEA LEVEL RISE + COASTAL EROSION

AGING INFRASTRUCTURE STORMS Hurricane Andrew, 1992 Unnamed Storm, 1993 STORMS Hurricane Wilma, 2005 Hurricane Katrina, 2005 FLOODING King Tide Flooding, City of Miami Beach, 2011 GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS 2008 INFRASTRUCTURE Dolphin Expressway Overpass Collapse at NW 97 Ave Bridge Collapse, 2005 DECREASING HOUSING QUALITY & AFFORDABILITY

Top Shocks

FLOODING King Tide Flooding Miami-Dade County, 2016 EROSION Beach Renourishment, 1970s

Metropolitan Governance Scan

Structure Miami-Dade County has a strong mayor form of government. The mayor serves as the chief executive and the Commission is the legislative body. The City of Miami has an executive mayor who appoints a city manager as the chief administrative officer. The Commission is the legislative body. The City of Miami Beach has a council- manager system, where the mayor and six commissioners set city policy and the city manager is the chief executive.

Metropolitan Governance Scan

FINANCING

GM&B is strong financially. Balanced budgeting/sound fiscal policy is a priority of current executive leadership in each jurisdiction. For all three jurisdictions, property taxes are very large sources of revenue. This reliance on property taxes means that GM&B’s revenue was hit hard by the housing market crash in 2008, but has since steadily recovered.

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STAKEHOLDERS

Living with Water

Innovative Infrastructure

Discovery Areas

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Initiative / Challenge Deep Dive

Objective:

• Address sea level rise risks through better, smarter data

management and coordination at the metropolitan level Initiative: Living with Water, Innovative Infrastructure Investments (Focus Area 1, Preliminary Resilience Assessment) Key question (s):

• How do we proactively plan, coordinate, and use consistent

data and communications strategies across governments and the private sector to address sea level rise risks?

• How do we expand and innovate sophisticated use of data in

government operations such as open data, performance management, chief innovation officers, and smart cities to inform the decision-making process? How do we build smart decision-making for resilience?

Social Equity Innovation + Technology Intergovernmental Collaboration

Resilience Value:

Metropolitan Resilience in

JAKARTA

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City Context

• Metropolitan Name: Special Capital Region (DKI) of Jakarta
• Metropolitan Area: 7.659,02 km2 in total which consists of Land Area is

661,52 km2 and Sea Area is 6.997,50 km2 (Thousand Islands in the north coast).

• Metropolitan Population: Home to ± 10 million people in the night time

and ± 12 million people in the day time. Greater Jakarta Metropolitan Area (Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang and Bekasi), is the second largest city area in the world after Tokyo, with a population of 30,214,303 inhabitants as of 2010 census. .

• Working Population: ± 2 million people
• Cities/Regencies:Jakarta is divided into 6 administrative areas, including

Administrative Regency of Thousand Islands and 5 Administrative Cities in Land Area: North Jakarta, West Jakarta, Central Jakarta, East Jakarta, and South Jakarta.

• Other: Density : 15,366.87/km2; Gini Ratio: 0.39-0.41 (March 2017); Access

to Clean Piped Water 57%; Population Growth 1.06 % ; Housing 49% or 1,300,000 House Hold do not have owned house); 40% land area is below sea level

Source: https://sujarman81.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/dki.jpg

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Risk Profile

Reliance on outside water sources:

97% of clean water in Jakarta is

supplied from sources outside of the city

Water Resource Map of Jakarta

Deficiency of clean water was worse by limited

potential water source

– rivers within Jakarta are very polluted Ciliwung River is polluted by 35

millions E-Coli

per 100cc water Overuse of clean water leads to land

subsidence and

degradation Jakarta’s waste production in 2017 as much as

7.147,36 tons per day

• 4% sewerage coverage
• 90% solid waste handle

Fecal Waste Flow of Jakarta

Source: BPLHD DKI Jakarta

39% or about 800 thousands families

do not have access to clean tap water

51% or about 1.05 millions families do

not have access to waste water treatment plant

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Governance Scan

Metropolitan Structures / Arrangements

• Governor and Vice Governor are elected through one man one vote in 5 year basis, then 5 mayors and 1 Regent are appointed by the Governor
• 4 Deputies Governor to provide advices to Governor incl. Deputy Governor for Spatial Planning and Environment who serve as CRO, 42 SKPD or

government agencies including Bappeda (Local Development Planning) Agency)

• Sekda (Provincial Executive Secretary) as the head of government administrative.

Metropolitan Stakeholders:

• International Donors (JICA,

USAID IUWASH, ICLEI, GIZ, IFC)

• International Organisations

(Plan Intl, Save the Children, Caritas/Karina. Amcros, C40, UCLG, World Vision)

• Local Organisation:

Association Cleaned Water (AMPL) ,Green Building Council (GBC), Provincial Research Council, Indonesian Red Cross;

• State Owned Enterprises:

MRT, TransJakarta, LRT, PAM, PAL Jaya;

• Academicians

Financing Mechanisms:

• National State Fund (APBN)
• Provincial State Fund

(APBD)

• International Donors
• Private Sectors /CSR

Source: Processed from the DKI Jakarta Regulations

Development Planning Agency (Bappeda) Inspectorate

Deputy Governors

Technical Agencies

Head of Administrative

Bureaus Local Parliaments

Provincial Executive Secretary

Governor Vice Governor

Regional Technical Institutions (LTD) Secretary Assistants Financial Management Agency (BPKD) Asset Management Agency (BPAD) Civil Service Police Unit (Satpol PP) Partnership Command Coordination LEGEND:

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Initiative / Challenge Deep Dive

Objective:

• To improve quality of life by increasing access to critical services:

cleaned water & waste treatment and livelihood opportunities Initiative:

• Integrated water resources management plan as 13 rivers flow

through Jakarta from up stream.

• Integrated transportation system within Jakarta Metropolitan

Region including surrounding cities (Bogor, Depok, Bekasi, Tangerang) Key question (s):

• What are the best practices from other coastal metropolitan cities

related to Integrated Water Resources Management?

• How other metropolitan cities manage the integrated transportation

across administrative boundaries?

• How other metropolitan city practices (success and failures) Urban

Governance in Metropolitan Regions? Resilience Values:

• Networking
• Exchange solution to address common problems

Source: http://megapolitan.kompas.com/read/2016/09/28/10123191/wali.kota.jaksel.kami.s enang.hadapi.warga.di.pengadilan Source: https://www.jakartamrt.co.id/2017/06/11/perekrutan-masinis-mrt-tengah- berlangsung/

Metropolitan Resilience in

Paris

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City Context

• Metropolitan Name: METROPOLE DU GRAND PARIS (the

Greater Paris Metropolitan Authority)

• Metropolitan Area: 814 km²
• Metropolitan Population: 7,5 million
• Working Population: 930 000 non Parisian residents

commute every day to/from Paris

• Municipal Districts: the city of Paris is subdivided in 20

districts / the Metropolis has 131 municipalities, including Paris

• Population density: 21,000 inhab./km² in Paris; 8,000 in the

metropolitan area

• A complex environment: the Metropolitan authority was

created on 1/1/2016, adding another layer of local government in a regional context that is already crowded with them

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Risk Profile

Complex and inefficient Governance Inequalities Terrorism Climate change Flooding and water scarcity Air pollution

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Governance Scan

Metropolitan Structures / Arrangements:

• Metropolitan council : 209 elected councilors
• An agglomeration of agglomerations: 12 Territories (groups of

municipalities)

• 131 municipalities (Paris is both a territory and a municipality)
• Consultative council of 104 members from the civil society (80

nominated, 24 chosen randomly) Metropolitan Stakeholders:

• Public : State / Ile de France Region / 8 Departments (Paris is

also one of them) / various agencies and public services providers

• Private : regional/departmental (but not metropolitan) official

representation of businesses and private sector / professional unions

• Academic : very dense network of academic and research

institutes Responsibilities : strategic planning (only, the operational responsibilities are under the territories’ purview) for housing, land planning, environmental and flood protection, economic development, climate and air.

The Greater Paris Metropolitan authority was created “to improve the living environment of its inhabitants, to reduce territorial inequality within its boundary, to develop a sustainable urban, social and economic model, and to enhance economic attractiveness and competitiveness of not just the metropolitan area but the country as a whole”

Financing Mechanisms

• State/local taxes (i.e. Business value added tax,

property tax, etc.) and fees

• State transfers
• European Union Funding
• Very few PPP and private funding

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Initiative / Challenge Deep Dive

Objective:

• Reduce by 30% the number of commuter trips by 2030

as a way to improve air quality, spread economic activity within the Metropolis area, and strengthen parenthood

Initiative:

• Develop co-working spaces, promote remote working

and launch a “job exchange platform” at the metropolitan scale

Key question (s):

• How to measure and demonstrate the potential multiple

benefits and impacts of these actions to legitimize them and secure social/political acceptability ?

• How to mobilize and involve the private sector ?
• How to secure buy-in from trade unions ?
• How to build and implement a first flagship action ?

Resilience values:

Health and wellbeing Economy and society Infrastructures and environment

Metropolitan Resilience in

Santiago de los Caballeros

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City Context

• Metropolitan Name: Santiago Metropolitano.
• Metropolitan Area: The metropolitan area occupies 733 km2, which

represents 34% of the province and 2% of the country.

• Metropolitan Population: 852,361 (2010)
• Working Population: 46.2% of the population works.
• Municipal Districts: 1 urban commune: Santiago de los Caballeros,

and 5 rural commune: M.D. Pedro García, M.D. Baitoa, M.D. La Canela, M.D. San Fco. De Jacagua, M.D. Hato del Yaque.

• Other: in Santiago de los Caballeros, 31.4% of the population is below

the poverty line and there are more than 33,000 homes in informal settlements, primarily in vulnerable areas.

• Other: In addition, the lack of inclusion of the Haitian immigrant

population, which represents approximately 5% of the total population, should be considered. The urban footprint of Santiago de los Caballeros grew at an alarming rate of 7.6% from 1999 to 2004, from 2.17% from 2004 to 2010, and from 3.13% from 2010 to 2014. Following this trend, the expansion of the city in the future implies the use of land with agricultural properties for urban use and the substantial increase in costs associated with the provision of public services.

Municipal limits

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Risk Profile

Historically, the population of Santiago de los Caballeros has been affected regularly by floods caused by rains that have brought as a consequence the overflow of the city's rivers, as well as by drainage defects in the urban area, as well as by the presence of of tropical storms and / or hurricanes during the period where you are created accompanied in addition to the wind factor. The presence of a seismic fault in the Municipal District of Jacagua, towards where the city is growing rapidly, increases the vulnerability of the city. The analysis of the exposed figures and their foreseeable future evolution, allows to reflect on the root of the socioeconomic processes that have led to this situation of exposure and vulnerability: occupation of fluvial spaces, great anthropic pressure exerted

• n the channels with infrastructures and

channeling almost always insufficient, collapse by dragging solids (sediment and waste), scarce application of legal frameworks.

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Governance Scan

Metropolitan Structures / Arrangements: There is no formal structure.

• Province Government
• Senator
• Congressmen by circumscription
• City Hall of Santiago
• Council for the strategic development of Santiago, CDES
• Mini town councils of the municipal districts.

Metropolitan Stakeholders:

• Aura Toribio, Province Governor
• Julio César Valentín, Senator
• Abel Martínez, Mayor
• Juan Carlos Ortíz, CDES President
• Eduardo Rodríguez, Provincial Director of the Ministry of

Environment.

Financing Mechanisms: [list key financing mechanisms for metropolitan scale

projects, such as formal budgets or public-private-partnerships]

• IDB
• Presidency founds
• Local Founds (limited)

Santiago de los Caballeros has formed an urbanized continuum with the municipalities of Licey al Medio, Tamboril, Puñal, and Villa González constituting the Metropolitan Area

• f ​Santiago de los Caballeros. Despite the existence of this metropolitan phenomenon,

there has been an important administrative fragmentation with the creation of Municipalities and Municipal Districts in recent years. The fragmentation of the territory makes management and regulation efforts difficult and sometimes sterile. Facing the phenomenon 15. According to the urban footprint study of IDOM, the growth of the urban footprint was 7.6% from 1999 to 2004, 2.17% from 2004 to 2010, and 3.13% from 2010 to 2014. See Chapter 4 and 6 of this Plan. INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK - ICES In the metropolitan area, it is essential to create and maintain a long-term integrated vision and carry out concerted management among municipalities to plan the city with a supramunicipal approach.

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Initiative / Challenge Live the Yaque

Objective:

Vive el Yaque has as main objective to improve the life quality of the people of Santiago through the mitigation of flood risks, the valorization of environmental assets and the revitalization of the urban habitat. The project seeks to consolidate the west stretch of a double green ring, through: (i) storm drainage and flood prevention works; (ii) reforestation and landscaping of green areas and recovery of public spaces; (iii) road and building infrastructure and urban equipment for the revitalization of the historic center and peripheral areas.

Initiative:

Vive el Yaque

Key question (s):

How can a resilience strategy be implemented in a city with limited own resources or limited financing?

• How to get support from the central government to apply for the loan?
• How to get the support of the communities that would be intervened as part of

the project to achieve sustainability?

Resilience Values:

• Pluvial drainage, Sanitation and Flood Prevention.
• Reforestation, Green Areas and Public Spaces.
• Urban Revitalization and Social Inclusion.

Metropolitan Resilience in

Sydney

• Australia’s largest city. 4.6 million residents, 18% of

Australia’s total population;

• A sunny, temperate climate and a geography defined

by water – creeks, rivers, dams and a beautiful coastline;

• Urban development is bounded by national parks to

the north, south and west of the city;

• 3 layers of government with overlapping jurisdiction;
• A key driver of the national economy, contributing

23.3% of GDP;

• The CBD is in the east where there is a

concentration education, high value jobs and investment;

• The west and southwest are the fastest growing

regions in Australia but residents have poor access to opportunity to grow and thrive;

• Ranked the 2nd least affordable city in the world and

the most unequal major city in Australia; and

• One of the most hyper-diverse cities in the world –

39% born overseas.

Metropolitan Sydney

Key Shocks and Stresses

Shocks and stresses both lead to losses in a city – loss

• f life or health, community or economic stability, or

environmental value. Sydney’s Chronic Stresses – long-term systemic disruptions:

1. Increasing health services demand 2. Diminishing social cohesion 3. Loss of housing affordability 4. Increasing chronic illnesses 5. Lack of transport diversity 6. Insufficient employment diversity 7. Increasing geographic inequity 8. Rise in drug and alcohol abuse.

Sydney’s Acute Shocks – short-term disruptions:

1. Extreme weather – heatwaves, storms and bushfires 2. Failure of large financial institutions – during GFC 3. Infrastructure failures such as power outages 4. Disease pandemic 5. Water crisis – too much or too little 6. Digital network failures 7. Cyber attack 8. Terror attack.

Key: Size of circles shows hierarchy of issues

Challenge Deep Dive

Objective:

• Understand, quantify and create a business case to manage risks

from extreme weather in the Botany Bay area of metropolitan Sydney Initiative:

• Pilot project to understand critical network interdependencies to

prepare for emergencies in the Botany Bay area. Key questions:

• How can we collaborate to share data and quantify risks from

extreme weather to critical assets and networks in the Botany Bay area?

• What tools and approaches could we try?
• What collaborative mechanisms have worked in other cities?

Resilience Values:

• Improve awareness and understanding of risk across government,

business and the community;

• Improve Sydney’s capacity to respond to extreme weather by including

adaptation, diversity and redundancy in planning for critical infrastructure and networks;

• Create a business case for investment; and
• Grow the ‘habit of collaboration’ in metropolitan Sydney.

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