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Building Urban Climate Resilience: Experiences from Da Nang city, Vietnam Institute for Social and Environmental Transition Phong Tran, Ph.D phongtran@i-s-e-t.org 13 May 2012

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• How do we plan for climate resilience in Da Nang city?
• Need an approach that clarifies complex sources of urban vulnerability
• Must be simple enough for local practitioners to apply in context
• This approach applied in 10 cities as part of Asian Cities Climate

Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) funded by Rockefeller Foundation

Why Urban Climate Resilience Approach?

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Resilience?

• The capability of a system faced with shocks or stresses to maintain or

quickly restore its function

• Includes the ability to:
• LEARN from and adapt to experience – i.e. to change strategies or

structure of the system

• RESPOND to unexpected events

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Urban Climate Resilience Planning Framework

Scientific knowledge Local knowledge Change Agents

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Urban Climate resilience planning process in Da Nang

SLDs

Engagement Shared Learning Multiple stakeholders

Vulnerability Assessment

Climate context and impact Vulnerable groups and sectors

Sector studies and Pilots

Detailed study

• f major issues

Experience with small scale activities

Resilience Planning

Develop strategy for action Select priorities Assemble complementary activities

Science and Local Knowledge

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Shared Learning Dialogue Process

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Key characteristics of urban resilience planning process in Da Nang

• Led by local governments
• Engage multiple departments and stakeholders in project development and

implementation

• Build capacity, share and learn within and among cities
• Collaborate in work plan development
• Combine traditional and scientific knowledge through change agents

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Climate Change Coordination Office

• Strengthen capacity of CCCO
• Strengthen the participation of vulnerable communities in the decision making process
• Assemble and provide access to data required to assess future

climate impacts in relation to urban development plans

• Coordinate the climate change resilience analysis
• Coordinate climate change planning and programming at the city level

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Storm Resistant Housing Program

• Establish Revolving Loan Fund for Storm Resistant Housing
• Build capacity among program participants and community members
• Train local builders to design, and construct clime resistant housing
• Demonstrate a successful and scalable housing credit scheme

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Integrative Education for Urban Climate Resilience

• To develop integrative education models for urban climate resilience education
• To develop guidelines for integrating urban climate resilience

education into school curriculum

• To enhance capacity of teachers
• To replicate and scale up the integrative urban climate resilience education models
• To promote replication of successful practices in other

parts of the country

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Hydrological modeling for urban planning project

• Develop a database on climate change impacts on socio economic development

and urban planning

• Develop hydraulic model of Da Nang city
• Use the paired models as a basis for urban H-H calculations

and other projections

• Prepare a multi agency guidance document regarding urban development under

future climate conditions

• Increase awareness of both the potential impacts of

climate change on urban development

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Key challenges

• Top down planning commonly practiced
• Extreme vulnerability to CC and rapid urbanization
• Lack of coordination
• Resilience planning components new for local people
• Traditional “predict then act” approach vs. resilience approach
• f “learn from and adapt to unexpected events”

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Way forwards

• City resilience plan
• Infrastructure, ecosystems, capacity, institutions
• No-regret measures
• Increase awareness and skills
• New planning

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Thank you for your attention.