Project Title: Tomorrow’s Cities
Project Duration: 2019 – 2024
Project summary:
Tomorrow’s Cities global is the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Urban Disaster Risk Hub – a five-year global interdisciplinary research hub that aims to bring multi-hazard disaster risk management to the centre of urban policy and practice. It is one of 12 UKRI GCRF Hubs funded in 2019 as part of the UK AID strategy, putting research at the heart of efforts to deliver the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Tomorrow’s Cities is enhancing risk-sensitive urban development through a global network of integrated research programmes led by local teams in low-to-middle-income countries. The work is interdisciplinary and coproduced with local residents, city and national housing, infrastructure and land-use planners.
Objectives:
The Tomorow’s Cities project aims to catalyse a transition from crisis management to multi-hazard risk-informed planning and decision-making that strengthens the voice and capacity of the urban poor.
The Tomorrow’s Cities Decision Support Environment (TCDSE) brings together six main elements which are adapted to fit individual city risk and development contexts:
- Institutional mapping, risk and policy analysis
- Future visioing for low-income urban development and risk reduction
- Future scenario maping into geographic information systems
- Computational modelling of hazard and risk
- Negotistion of prefeences for risk management given desired urban planning futures
- Action planning for forward planning
Initial work with partners in Istanbul, Kathmandu, Nairobi and Quito is now being globalised in collaboration with new cities, UNDRR and other international partners including the United Cities and Local Government Network.
Funder(s): UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
COMET Investigators:
- Dr C. Scott Watson (COMET Research Fellow)
For more information: https://tomorrowscities.org/
