While urbanisation brings unprecedented social and economic opportunity, it also increases the threat of disasters, with greater concentrations of people living in dangerous places, such as those living in coastal areas, on land that floods, or on marginalised land.
Asia Pacific is one of the world’s fastest urbanising regions. It is also home to the largest number of people living in low-income settlements. The region is susceptible to a wide range of natural hazards, including flood, windstorms, earthquake, volcano, tsunami and landslide. Climate change is also expected to contribute to sea level rise, stronger windstorms and higher temperatures, increasing urban risk and exacerbating migration.
To address this, Sustainable Development Goal 11 has identified resilience as a key approach for creating inclusive, safe and sustainable cities.
Join peer practitioners, researchers and decision-makers from 7-8 November in Sydney to present, discuss, debate and recommend realisable social, physical, political and economic measures that build resilience in the Asia Pacific region.
The program will look across four themes:
- Innovation
- Information
- Infrastructure
- Institutions
The conference will feature an impressive line-up of engaging speakers from around Australia and the Asia Pacific – access the conference program here.
For more information, visit the conference website.
