Past Events
CRP presented its work on geospatial planning and the use of satellite data in a webinar hosted by the Lahore University of Management Sciences. Leveraging satellite data and transforming it in compelling interactive maps helps CRP to communicate effectively with decision-makers on their urban resilience challenges and how to best address them.
CRP presented its work on geospatial planning and the use of ESRI’s ArcGIS StoryMaps to create compelling interactive maps and charts that can help cities identify their urban disaster risks and become more resilient.
The International Conference on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (ICDRI 2021) is an interactive virtual conference which follows International Workshops on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (IWDRI) held in 2018 and 2019. ICDRI is the annual international conference of the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) in partnership with member countries, organizations and institutions to strengthen the global discourse on disaster and climate resilient infrastructure.
CRP hosted a 4-day workshop for eight metropolitan municipalities in South Africa on resilient capital investment planning. The workshop allowed city decision-makers to explore climate resilience as a component of investment planning and prioritization, and conceptualize ways the private sector may help move these ideas to implementation.
CRP participated in a session ran by GFDRR’s Risk Data Library team illustrating how the Risk Data Library helps the City Scan streamline data production and generate new data and information. By combining hazard, exposure, vulnerability, and loss data together through a consistent schema, the Risk Data Library makes it easier to work with various sources of disaster risk information and build more efficient data workflows, catalogs and tools.
CRP co-ran with GFDRR Labs an interactive session teaching participants, including city officials, to recombine geospatial layers for insights into risks and resilient urban planning through the cities of Banjul, The Gambia; Cap-Haitien, Haiti; and Douala, Cameroon. Innovations in earth observation and geospatial analysis allow planners to gain new insights into current and future risk. With the right knowledge, they can get ahead of future vulnerability.
This session from the Coronavirus Speaker Series featured Yuko Arai, an Urban Specialist at the World Bank, Hiroyuki Fujita, Chief Resilience Officer of Kyoto City, and Dr. Joseph Runzo-Inada PhD, Chief Resilience Officer & Head of Strategic Planning, City of Toyama, Japan.
CRP profiled its newly developed City Scan StoryMaps to external audiences at the Urban and Regional Information System Association: GIS-Pro 2020 conference, highlighting the new use case for the product. StoryMaps enables CRP to leverage satellite data on the natural and built environment to create interactive maps and methods that help city officials identify their disaster risks and make their city more resilient.