Building Urban Climate Resilience: Experiences from Da Nang city, Vietnam

1. Building Urban Climate Resilience: Experiences from Da Nang city, Vietnam • Institute for Social and Environmental Transition • PhongTran, Ph.Dphongtran@i-s-e-t.org13 May 2012

2. How do we plan for climate resilience in Da Nang city? • Need an approach that clarifies complex sources of urban vulnerability • Must be simple enough for local practitioners to apply in context • This approach applied in 10 cities as part of Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) funded by Rockefeller Foundation Why Urban Climate Resilience Approach?

3. Resilience? • The capability of a system faced with shocks or stresses to maintain or quickly restore its function • Includes the ability to: • LEARN from and adapt to experience – i.e. to change strategies or structure of the system • RESPOND to unexpected events

4. Urban Climate Resilience Planning Framework Change Agents Local knowledge Scientific knowledge

5. Urban Climate resilience planning process in Da Nang Science and Local Knowledge

6. Shared Learning Dialogue Process

7. Led by local governments • Engage multiple departments and stakeholders in project development and implementation • Build capacity, share and learn within and among cities • Collaborate in work plan development • Combine traditional and scientific knowledge through change agents • Key characteristics of urban resilience planning process in Da Nang

8. Strengthen capacity of CCCO • Strengthen the participation of vulnerable communities in the decision making process • Assemble and provide access to data required to assess future climate impacts in relation to urban development plans • Coordinate the climate change resilience analysis • Coordinate climate change planning and programming at the city level • Climate Change Coordination Office

9. Establish Revolving Loan Fund for Storm Resistant Housing • Build capacity among program participants and community members • Train local builders to design, and construct clime resistant housing • Demonstrate a successful and scalable housing credit scheme • Storm Resistant Housing Program

10. To develop integrative education models for urban climate resilience education • To develop guidelines for integrating urban climate resilience education into school curriculum • To enhance capacity of teachers • To replicate and scale up the integrative urban climate resilience education models • To promote replication of successful practices in other parts of the country • Integrative Education for Urban Climate Resilience

11. Develop a database on climate change impacts on socio economic development and urban planning • Develop hydraulic model of Da Nang city • Use the paired models as a basis for urban H-H calculations and other projections • Prepare a multi agency guidance document regarding urban development under future climate conditions • Increase awareness of both the potential impacts of climate change on urban development • Hydrological modeling for urban planning project

12. Key challenges • Top down planning commonly practiced • Extreme vulnerability to CC and rapid urbanization • Lack of coordination • Resilience planning components new for local people • Traditional “predict then act” approach vs. resilience approach of “learn from and adapt to unexpected events”

13. City resilience plan • Infrastructure, ecosystems, capacity, institutions • No-regret measures • Increase awareness and skills • New planning Way forwards

14. Thank you for your attention.