City Water Resilience Approach
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Tag: cities
Establishing a water resilience baseline for Greater Manchester
Water lies at the heart of the historical development of Greater Manchester, which recently piloted the City Water Resilience Framework, and water-related hazards pose a serious risk.
Strengthening urban water resilience – the City Water Resilience Approach
We talk to water engineer Louise Ellis about the City Water Resilience Approach recently published by the Resilience Shift.
Resilient water solutions for the historic city of Thessaloniki
Beautiful Thessaloniki is one of the eight cities that has contributed to the development of the City Water Resilience Approach. Its water resilience programmes also have the challenge of demands from agriculture and energy.
Resilience Shift Primer: Potable water. An industry guide to enhancing resilience
Building resilience of critical infrastructure requires decision makers working in different industry sectors to understand ‘what’ can be done, ‘why’ it should be done, and ‘how’ to put it into practice. Our work to date has told us that key stakeholders are often either unaware of the value that resilience can bring or are constrained […]
Resilience Shift round-table: City-scale modelling
Related to our work on tools and approaches, we want to understand where city scale models fit in to changing resilience in practice, and what the gaps are between theory and practice. The third of the Technical Advisory Group’s round-table series for the Resilience Shift took place on the 24 and 25 January 2019 at […]
Dealing with flood risk together
With 90% of the city below high-tide level, Kingston-Upon-Hull in the United Kingdom is used to taking a lead on water resilience.
Leaving no-one behind on World Water Day – the need for urban water resilience
Louise Ellis, Project Leader for the Resilience Shift’s work on water governance and the City Water Resilience Approach, says water resilience is critical for everyone.
