Building Resilience and Planning for Extreme Water-Related Events

Introduction (5 pages max)
State of science in climate resiliency and current effortsThis chapter introduces the state of science for this within cities and urban development, addressing: - What do we mean by resilience? (how we apply this in a practical sense - so implementation within an urban setting - what does it mean within this setting) - What is meant by being climate resilient? - Also briefly address what is meant by social readiness (awareness and willingness to engage), and who plays the main roles
The global dialogue and examples in practice- Should present the state of global dialogue and connect to other major global policy including SDGs and post Sendai Framework  Examples of current efforts (global scale with brief mention of some specific examples) - Provide examples from e.g. the 100 Resilient cities campaign and the work of the Rockefeller Foundation and UNISDR (also current developments within the water sector side of this)
Chapter setup- The chapters presented in this eBook provide a series of practical cases from Germany and the US - The structure of these chapters is as follows: o Brief introduction to caseo Current issues faced by planning and current natural and human environmental issues o Solutions pursued (practical solutions focus)o Learning points box (basic take home points for educational focus)
Our key terms [currently will use from combination of UNISDR terminology and stakeholder analysis research, to be updated later]- Resilience: (to be added shortly)- Climate resilient: (to be added shortly)- Public actors: (to be added shortly)- Private actors: (to be added shortly)- Stakeholders: (to be added shortly) Sample Case Chapter Structure (12 pages max)[this section to be removed in final version and for now serves as a chapter guidance]
Brief introduction to case - This brief section provides an idea for the reader of location, demographics, land use distribution, natural and human-based resources- It should also be stated whether the case is connected to global efforts including e.g. funding from the EU, from the Rockefeller Foundation or falls within the 100 Resilient Cities and UNISDR efforts, etc.
Current issues faced by planning and current natural and human environmental issues - It would be great to have this include an extreme events focus: what kind of events does the case face? What have been its historic events? (e.g. what kind of damage, how long did it take for recovery and who were the major actors in rebuilding)- The content of this section should address what are the desired outcomes for the future development of the city? Who is interested in achieving these outcomes? (the population, the government, private sector as well?)  This should help transition to the next section on what solutions were pursued
Solutions pursued (practical solutions focus)- This should include a description of the kind of solutions that have been pursued in the case to make the city more (or at least work toward) resilient - What kind of "best practices" were employed? (and how they directly addressed the city's challenges in trying to enhance resilience) - Consider also the main components of the call as follows: o How solutions address what is desirable and undesirable in building climate resilient societies?o In the solution: What does a resilient society look like? o Where slow transitions needed or
About the Author: Teresa Sprague is a water resources planner at Woodard & Curran Inc. in San Francisco, California. After her M.Sc. at the University of Oxford, UK she was awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Research Fellowship from the European Union and completed her PhD in water risk governance at the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany.
Kathrin Prenger-Berninghoff is a lecturer and scientific staff of Urban and Regional Planning at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. She is a recipient of a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Research Fellowship from the European Union and completed her PhD in spatial planning at the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany.