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Reducing disaster risk for the poor in tomorrow’s cities

Tomorrow’s Cities is an interdisciplinary research hub.

We work globally to bring multi-hazard disaster risk management to the centre of urban policy and practice.
Reducing disaster risk for the poor in tomorrow’s cities

Tomorrow’s Cities is an interdisciplinary research hub.

We work globally to bring multi-hazard disaster risk management to the centre of urban policy and practice.
Reducing disaster risk for the poor in tomorrow’s cities

Tomorrow’s Cities is an interdisciplinary research hub.

We work globally to bring multi-hazard disaster risk management to the centre of urban policy and practice.

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17 November 2020

Vacancy - Interdisciplinary PhD project on Multi-Hazard Interrelationships

9 November 2020

Tomorrow's Cities researchers interviewed on BBC World Service

30 October 2020

World Cities Day: Co-producing research to reduce disaster risk in Tomorrow's Cities

Conceptually, keeping people safe from harm is an ethical issue. However, research ethics procedures do not typically provide protection beyond formal research activities, nor adequate reporting of and responses to incidents that occur. In practice, then, research ethics can be seen as part of safeguarding.

27 October 2020

How do we ensure our impact is positive?

Dave Bell

Focus cities

Our research is led by collaborations of local experts and practitioners based in four rapidly developing and multi-hazard exposed cities, and is supported by an international network of specialists.

Tomorrow's Istanbul

Population 15 million. The city is growing at a rate of 1.5% per year – both upwards and outwards. Key hazards: earthquakes, flooding and landslides.

Tomorrow's Quito

Population 2.7 million. Rapid urban expansion coincides with hazard hot-spots, creating new risk and amplifying existing inequalities. Key hazards: landslides, earthquakes, volcanoes and flooding.

Tomorrow's Nairobi

Population 5 million, 50% of which live in congested informal settlements. Population growth 4-5% per year. Key hazards: flooding, building collapse, fire, earthquakes.

Tomorrow's Kathmandu

Population 2.5 million. One of the fastest growing cities in the Global South. Key hazards: earthquakes, landslides and flooding.

Global context

Word cloud

Globally, more than 2 billion people living in cities are exposed to disasters from multiple hazards, which threaten the cyclical destruction of their lives and livelihoods. Rapid urbanisation can exacerbate these vulnerabilities, presenting a major challenge to sustainable and inclusive development. But it also presents a major opportunity: globally, more than 60% of the area expected to be urban by 2030 remains to be built, meaning we can reduce disaster risk in tomorrow’s cities by design.

Resources

Article

Mainstreaming Gender and Complexity: An Introduction for Research Design

Nibedita Ray Bennett

Tomorrow's Cities

Tomorrow's Cities Safeguarding Policy

Dave Bell

Tomorrow's Cities

Working paper

Trend of urban growth in Nepal with a focus in Kathmandu Valley: A review of processes and drivers of change

Netra Prasad Timsina, with input from Dilli Prasad Poudel, Rachana Upadhyaya and Anushiya Shrestha

Tomorrow's Cities

Academic publication

Disasters, Humanitarianism and Emergencies: A politics of uncertainty

Mark Pelling, Detlef Müller-Mahn and John McCloskey

Routledge

Reducing disaster risk for the poor in tomorrow’s cities

Reducing disaster risk for the poor in tomorrow’s cities

Reducing disaster risk for the poor in tomorrow’s cities

Vacancy - Interdisciplinary PhD project on Multi-Hazard Interrelationships

Tomorrow's Cities researchers interviewed on BBC World Service

World Cities Day: Co-producing research to reduce disaster risk in Tomorrow's Cities

How do we ensure our impact is positive?

Tomorrow's Istanbul

Tomorrow's Quito

Tomorrow's Nairobi

Tomorrow's Kathmandu

Mainstreaming Gender and Complexity: An Introduction for Research Design

Tomorrow's Cities Safeguarding Policy

Trend of urban growth in Nepal with a focus in Kathmandu Valley: A review of processes and drivers of change

Disasters, Humanitarianism and Emergencies: A politics of uncertainty