Partner Session
Climate Action to Develop Resilient Water Smart Cities
Overview
| Date and time (ICT) | To be decided by the organizers |
| Partner | Water Sensitive Cities Australia (WSCA) |
| Associate partner(s) | Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
The Australian Water Partnership (AWP) |
| Title | Climate Action to Develop Resilient Water Smart Cities |
| Objective(s) | 1. To increase understanding on the role that cities have to play in addressing climate hazards and implementing adaptation strategies that support different scales including their wider catchments
2. To share experiences on addressing climate challenges across different urban contexts, and how cities are developing robust and resilient integrated water management investments 3. To provide a space for knowledge exchange between panelists and participants on the successes and failures to building resilience within cities as part of integrated urban water management |
| Abstract | Our growing cities offer opportunities for improved wealth, health, and wellbeing. Water management impacts most aspects of urban development and will be a key determinant in whether the opportunities offered by urban growth are realized.
At the same time climate change is bringing increasing challenges across the water sector with more variability in rainfall, and associated drought, water scarcity and flooding; higher demand due to temperatures and extreme heat; and challenges to infrastructure through fire, disaster, and sea level rise. Feasible and effective adaptation strategies have become necessary to achieve sustainable and resilient development. These strategies must be place based, integrated, and multi-sectoral in order to reduce social inequalities and vulnerabilities associated with climate change. |
| Speakers | Dr. John Dore Dr. Hemant Ojha Dr. Niramon Serisakul |
| Mode of delivery | Online |
| Contact person | Katharine Cross |