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Water for Livable and Resilient Cities

Tools

Water plays a central role in almost every aspect of our urban environment and quality of life in our cities. Alarmingly, the combined impacts of rapid population growth and climate change are now posing a severe threat to the liveability and resilience of our cities. However, it is possible to design water systems that provide cities with the capacity to cope with these threats. So-called “water sensitive urban design” creates water sensitive cities that enhance and protect the health of watercourses and wetlands; mitigate flood risk and damage; and create public spaces that harvest, clean and recycle water. This approach poses complex planning and urban design challenges. And it requires solutions that address equally complex and interrelated considerations, such as social, environmental, political, economic, planning and engineering disciplines.

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Municipal Performance Mandala for local indicators

Available in English

The Municipal Performance Mandala is a "radar" type chart, which shows the degree of development of the Municipality according to 4 dimensions: economic, social, environmental and institutional. Twent...

Developed by Confederación Nacional dos Municípios e...

Posted by Santiago Martin

Concept notes and papers

territorial competitiveness and the Role of Decentralized Autonomous Governments

Available in English

The purpose of this document is to define the requirements of a territorial competitiveness strategy for Ecuador, which requires a territorial approach. The paper presents an operational proposal for...

Developed by Consortium of Provincial Autonomous of E...

Posted by Local2030

Case studies and best practices

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