The viability of the framework is demonstrated through examples from resilience planning activities undertaken in 10 cities across Asia through the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. It operationalizes these concepts through structured and iterative shared learning approaches that allow local planners to define these factors in their own context, in order to develop practical strategies for local action. The framework includes characteristics of urban systems, the agents (people and organizations) that depend on and manage those systems, institutions that link systems and agents, and patterns of exposure to climate change. The framework integrates theoretical and empirical knowledge of the factors contributing to resilience with processes for translating those concepts into practice. This article reviews concepts and theories in a range of diverse fields to illustrate how the general notion of urban climate resilience can be developed into an operational framework for planning practitioners. Climate adaptation will be essential, and planning for adaptation can be simplified through operationalizing concepts of climate resilience and vulnerability. Urban Climate resilience Disaster risk reduction Resilience approach Vulnerability assessmentĬlimate change will have unavoidable impacts on urban systems and populations, especially in Asia where many large cities are exposed. We also looked more at urbanization as a process of change, rather than just the city as an administrative unit. This chapter present a process and key findings from Hue city climate vulnerability assessment, in which climate change was not used as the starting point for the vulnerability assessment, instead, we have started with urbanization, and then factored in climate change into the process. This chapter argues that to overcome this constraint and to make the concept of vulnerability operational one should use a resilience approach that allows for consideration of complex systems, and from this, look at interactions between key systems of the cities. There is no agreed method for assessing urban vulnerability to climate change. These characteristics further compound climate risks and create greater susceptibility to disruption.

Moreover, cities’ increasingly sophisticated and interdependent supply chains and transportation logistics, for water, energy, workforce, food and consumables make it harder to assess the cities’ vulnerabilities. Most cities have been developed, designed and built to cope with the historic climate, not the future climate trends and extremes. This is due to the dependence on infrastructure, and the density of population, services and economic activity.

Urban areas are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

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