People and communities are the key component of a new strategy intended to build ICLEI Member City Glasgow's (UK) resilience against the impact of the shocks and stresses faced by a city in the 21st century. The "Resilient Glasgow" Strategy details 50 different actions intended to create a stronger and more adaptable city.

Based on a detailed conversation with 3,500 Glasgow-residents, the strategy is the first of its kind to be released in the UK. It focuses on issues such as economic growth, tackling inequality, enhancing partnerships at all levels, delivering services around the needs of citizens, and building capacity for resilience among the city's population.

Glasgow is a core city of the Smart Mature Resilience (SMR) project, which aims to support city decision-makers in developing and implementing resilience measures in their cities. As part of the project, Glasgow and its local research partner, the University of Strathclyde, are working closely together on co-creating and testing the project's tools, with a particular focus in Glasgow's case on building resilience against flood risk. Tier 2 cities of Rome (Italy) and Riga (Latvia) are observing Glasgow's progress and providing feedback, which will ensure that the final tools are widely replicable and applicable to all cities in Europe.

For more information, visit the Smart Mature Resilience website.Image copyright: Image (Flickr) by "Jim McDougall", licensed under CC BY 2.0 more   4 October 2016 Inspiring stories for cities on measures for better urban mobilityThe CIVITAS Initiative has released a new publication with case studies and expert analysis on measures and projects it has implemented within the last three years. "˜CIVITAS Voices: Inspiring stories and expert ideas for better urban mobility' includes case studies on seven projects that received co-funding via the CIVITAS Activity Fund, two measures from the city-led demonstration projects DYN@MO and 2MOVE2, and one study into the long-term impact of a measure implemented within a previous phase of CIVITAS.

"˜One of the greatest strengths of the CIVITAS Initiative is that it brings together a diverse community of municipal staff, policy makers at all levels, non-governmental organisations, universities and research institutes and many others, all of whom are working on the transition to more sustainable and innovative transport and mobility in Europe,' the authors write.

"˜This enables a great deal of productive discussion, debate and learning on what this shift should look like and how it can be achieved. We invite you to read on and take inspiration from these case studies, consider the advice offered by the experts, and begin to plan measures or projects in your own cities.'

For more information and to download the publication, visit civitas.eu.Image copyright: Image (Eltis) by "Carlos Corao", licensed under CC BY 2.0 more

» Publication Date: 05/10/2016

» Source: Iclei Europe

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