Webinar: Aligning Stakeholder Priorities in Urban Resilience Thursday, 20 January 2022 - 09.00 AM EST

Webinar: Aligning Stakeholder Priorities in Urban Resilience   Thursday, 20 January 2022 - 09.00 AM EST / 03:00pm CET / 10.00 PM SIN/KUL    Register   Funding, including the need to mobilize various sources of investment capital, plays an important role in supporting cities to address their resilient development challenges. The link between donors and beneficiaries, however, can be indirect, or limited to progress reports and formal governance structures. The first Cities on the Frontline session of 2022, jointly organized by Resilient Cities Network and the City Resilience Program, will focus on “Aligning Stakeholder Priorities in Urban Resilience”. Join us to hear directly from two of the world’s leading donor-funded disaster and resilience platforms (GFDRR & UNDRR), one of the principal donor countries in this space, and a number of city officials about the role of donor support for delivering resilient urban development, what value it adds, and how it could become even more effective. Featured Speakers This session will be co-moderated by Lauren Sorkin, R-Cities Executive Director, and Sameh Wahba, Global Director for the Urban, Disaster Risk Management, Resilience and Land Global Practice at the World Bank and will feature Mami Mizutori, Special Representative to the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, UNDRR and Dagmar Vogel, Head of Infrastructure Financing Division, Head of Infrastructure Financing Division, Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO).  Their interventions will be complemented by three city officials: Anthea Stephens, Climate & Sustainability Component Lead, Cities Support Programme, National Treasury of South Africa; Joni Baboci, former General Director of Planning and Urban Development of the City of Tirana; and Silva Magaia, Superintendent of Territorial Planning, Urbanization & Environment at the Municipal Council of Maputo.    Register   Access previous sessions Cities on the Frontline is a virtual thought leadership speaker series. The series, which began in 2020 co-organized by the Resilient Cities Network and the World Bank Group’s City Resilience Program, provides city practitioners and the industries and residents that they support, an understanding and means for responding to the pandemic and associated stresses, as well as solutions for planning towards a more resilient recovery. For questions, please contact: media@resilientcitiesnetwork.org Resilient Cities Network is the world’s leading organization working in urban resilience. Present in more than 90 cities, 40 countries, and 6 continents, R-Cities is a global city-led nonprofit organization that brings together knowledge, practice, partnerships, and funding to empower cities to build a safe, equitable, and sustainable future for all. If you are interested in receiving information about our city-led, impact-focused initiatives around the world, subscribe, share, or follow us on social media here: Subscribe

 

Call for papers: UCL Open: Environment Special Series: Water and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Extended deadline for submissions: April 2022 For more information or to enquire about submission:

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UCL Open: Environment invites submissions for a special series focusing on Water and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This Special Series will remain open until April 2022. The series will focus on SDGs 6 (clean water and sanitation), 13 (climate action), 14 (life below water) and 15 (life on land), but submissions on other SDGs are also welcome if they address topics regarding water.

Papers should be strongly inter- or multi-disciplinary either in terms of the author’s skill sets or subject matter. Discussion and research papers are equally welcome. Submissions covering an examination of progress on SDGs viewed from the perspective of the global water cycle, whether the indicators, targets and evidence available to us all /deliver a more balanced view of water and how it might be best managed in future, are also welcomed for submission.

Articles will be judged on the merit and scientific validity (sound scholarship) of the work and the Editorial Board are inviting submissions from people at any research or knowledge-based organisations (including NGOs, Think Tanks, IGOs/UN) and at all career stages, including early career researchers, mid-career professionals, and senior scholars.

The journal offers waivers and discounts for Article-Processing Charges including for articles whose corresponding authors are based in low-income countries (see here for more information). Authors are requested to contact the Editorial office (uclopen.environment@ucl.ac.uk) prior to submission to enquire and request these discounts. Please note that authors ability to pay any charges regarding to publication are kept separate to editorial review and Editors are not responsible for determining these waivers and discounts.

For more information or to enquire about submission:

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