Climate adaptation

Impact brief Leveraging resilience data for resilience action in Vietnam

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Impact Brief Leveraging resilience data for resilience action in Vietnam Overview of FRMC program results Overview ISET-International, as a member of the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance (funded by the Z Zurich Foundation), engaged with flood-vulnerable communities and other key stakeholders in Thua Thien Hue, Binh Dinh, and Can Tho. The Flood Resilience Measurement for Communities […]

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Sustaining Urban Resilience in Vietnam ACCCRN Workshop Summary

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Workshop Summary Sustaining Urban Resilience in Vietnam Lessons from 7 years of ACCCRN Overview This is the proceeding of the workshop “Sustaining Urban Resilience in Vietnam: Lessons from 7 years of ACCCRN”, organized by ISET on 24 November 2016. Disaster Risk Reduction/Hazard Management; Local Empowerment; Monitoring and Evaluation; Resilience and Climate Change Adaptation; Shared Learning

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Climate action plan Hue City

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Climate action plan for Hue city Responding to Climate Change from 2014-2020 Overview In 2011, Hue City was selected by the Institute for Social and Environmental Transition (ISET) to implement the Mekong-Building Climate Resilient Asian Cities (M-BRACE) project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). One of the main components of the

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Climate action plan Lao Cai City

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Climate action plan for Lao Cai City Responding to Climate Change from 2014-2020 and Visioning to 2030 Overview In 2011, Lao Cai City was selected by the Institute for Social and Environmental Transition (ISET) to implement the project Mekong-Building Climate Resilient Asian Cities (M-BRACE) funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). One

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Lessons from Typhoon Nari

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Lessons from Typhoon Nari Storm resistant housing shown to be effective Overview On October 15, 2013 Typhoon Nari landed in Da Nang city with level-12 winds and level-13 (130km/h) gusts. Winds, coupled with heavy rainfall which led to flooding in many areas of the city, caused severe damages?many people were injured, thousands of houses destroyed

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Colorado Resiliency Playbook

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Colorado Resiliency Playbook Overview In recent years, the State of Colorado and its disaster-impacted communities have gained significant experience in implementing recovery projects and integrating resiliency concepts into recovery operations. Colorado has made significant strides in thinking about and planning for resiliency through the development of the Colorado Resiliency Framework, which was adopted in 2015,

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Changing cities and changing climate insights from shared learning dialogues in Thailand and Vietnam

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Changing cities and changing climate Insights from shared learning dialogues in Thailand and Vietnam Overview Mekong-Building Climate Resilient Asian Cities (M-BRACE) worked with city stakeholders in four medium-sized cities in Thailand and Vietnam to explore the intersection of two intimately-linked, defining trends: urbanization and climate change. The world’s population is reaching new heights, and for

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The Shared Learning Dialogue Building Stakeholder Capacity and Engagement for Resilience Action

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Climate Resilience in Concept and Practice: ISET Working Paper 1 The Shared Learning Dialogue Building Stakeholder Capacity and Engagement for Resilience Action Overview Climate change represents a unique challenge as a global force with profoundly local consequences. Generating effective responses to climate change impacts requires understanding of emerging global scientific knowledge as well as the

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Catalyzing Urban Climate Resilience ACCCRN

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Catalyzing Urban Climate Resilience Applying Resilience Concepts to Planning Practice in the ACCCRN Program Overview “Catalyzing Urban Climate Resilience” describes how ten cities within the Rockefeller Foundation supported Asian Cities Climate Change Resilient Network (ACCCRN) assess climate vulnerability and apply emerging concepts of urban resilience. The ACCCRN experience offers an innovative framework for iterative shared

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Policy Brief A Mid-Term Review of the Climate Justice Resilience Fund

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Climate Justice Resilience Fund Policy Brief: A Mid-Term Review of the Climate Justice Resilience Fund Executive Summary CJRF funds climate justice and climate resilience initiatives in East Africa, the Bay of Bengal, and the Arctic as well as more globally-focused grants. It is dedicated to empowering women, youth, and Indigenous Peoples to create and share

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