Resilient
Sydney
A metropolitan Sydney collaboration
100 RESILIENT CITIES
To help cities respond
to the impacts of three
worldwide trends:
URBANIZATION
GLOBALIZATION
CLIMATE CHANGE
Bangkok, Thailand
Urban resilience
the capacity of individuals, communities,
institutions, businesses, and systems within a
city to
survive, adapt, and thrive no matter
what kinds of
chronic stresses and acute
shocks they experience.
100RC process for Sydney
Phase
Phase
Phase
1
2
3
Preliminary
Engagement
Resilience
and develop
Implement
Assessment
Strategy
Phase I
Phase II
Phase III
Nov 2015 –
Aug 2016 –
2018 +
Aug 2016
Dec 2017
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Metropolitan Sydney – working together
The program began in 2015 with an Agenda
Setting Workshop with 40 of 41 then councils,
NSW Government, business and community
sector representatives. Program governance is:
Steering Committee representation
•
5 Districts of Sydney – Council CEOs/GMs
•
NSW Government
•
Business, Community sector
•
100 Resilient Cities
Resilience Ambassadors - working group
Greater Sydney Region Plan 2018
•
Greater Sydney Commission
Representatives from each of Sydney’s metro
Councils
Background –
developing
the strategy
100RC
City Resilience Framework:
The 12 drivers in the City Resilience
Framework collectively determine
the city’s ability to withstand a wide
range of shocks and stresses
Inequity
4/10/2018
What makes Sydney vulnerable?
•
Growing inequity and differential opportunity
across the city
•
Lack of action adapting to heat and climate
•
Declining social cohesion
•
Community understanding & preparedness for
emergencies
•
Governance fragmentation and distrust
Setting the challenge
Publications on resilience at
metropolitan Sydney scale:
• Preliminary Resilience
Assessment, Sydney 2016
• City Context Report, Sydney
2016
Resilience approach and process in Sydney
1.
Understand: city scale vulnerabilities & community risks
Sydney’s metropolitan scale shocks and stresses were identified
2.
Include: those most affected in decision-making
Over 1,000 residents and stak vX
eholders engaged – across metro area
Participants guided resilience priorities and potential solutions
Strategy goals and actions sourced through engagement process
3.
Diversify: to mitigate risks, collaborate for multiple benefits
Strategy defines collaborative actions to reduce vulnerabilities
Involve partnerships between government business, community to
build resilience
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Draft
Resilient
Sydney
Strategy
Draft Resilience Strategy for Sydney
Vision:
Metropolitan Sydney is
connected, inclusive, resilient.
We are
one city.
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Mission:
Sydney will understand and be prepared to manage our resilience
challenges.
5 Directions for Action:
There will be five directions to build collaboration, adaptation,
innovation and investment for resilience.
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Draft Resilience Strategy for Sydney
AWARE
INTEGRATED ADAPTIVE DIVERSE SELF-REGULATING
Markets & Business, Government, Communities, NGOs
Live
People
Get
with our
centred city
ready
Climate
Connect for
One city
strength
Draft Resilience Strategy for Sydney
•
Call to action will be for collaboration
•
Resilience as a process, and a goal
Call to action will be directed at different city sectors:
• 1 resilient city
• 5 resilient districts
• 100 resilient organisations – business, government
• 100,000 ready households – ‘Get ready’ for emergencies
The draft strategy has 5 flagship and 30 supporting actions to improve
resilience.
Next steps – 2018 transition
Moving from strategy development to delivery:
• Strategy actions now being refined
• Partners working together to define projects
• Identifying funding for actions across Sydney
• Establishing reporting processes to monitor city resilience
• Clarifying governance and role of the Resilient Sydney Office to facilitate
and deliver the strategy.
The strategy will be released in 2018.
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#Resilient Sydney
One of the 100 Resilient Cities pioneered
by the Rockefeller Foundation
