Building bridges: cities helping cities achieve more – a Romanian-Japanese partnership

Photo: The central square of the old town. Brasov. Transylvania. By Ann Stryzhekin/ Shutterstock When U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in Yokohama in 1854, it was a backwater village in Japan…

Marcel Ionescu-Heroiu, Yuko Arai |
Competitiveness, Infrastructure & Public-Private Partnerships, Social Sustainability and Inclusion, Urban Development, Transport

Landslides, dumpsites, and waste pickers

Editorial credit: alionabirukova / Shutterstock.com Last week, the world came to attention when the famous Hulene dumpsite in Maputo, Mozambique collapsed under heavy rains, killing at least 16…

Silpa Kaza, Lisa Yao |
Disaster Risk Management, Environment, Education, Health, Social Sustainability and Inclusion

From Istanbul to Manila—different fault lines, similar challenges

Elif Ayhan, Artessa Saldivar-Sali, Alanna Simpson |
Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Infrastructure & Public-Private Partnerships, Urban Development

Disasters, funds, and policy: Creatively meeting urgent needs and long-term policy goals

[[tweetable]]When it comes to responding to disasters, time is of the essence.[[/tweetable]] Help needs to come immediately to save lives; recovery and reconstruction have to start swiftly to…

Zuzana Stanton-Geddes, Jolanta Kryspin-Watson |
Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Environment, Governance, Urban Development

災害への備え：先人のメッセージが伝えることは？

Also available in: Russian 「奇跡の一本松」：2011年の大津波に耐えた樹齢250年といわれる松の木。19, 000 人の犠牲者を追悼するモニュメントとして保存されている。 (写真：ウィキペディア・コモンズ) 災害リスク管理というと、地域社会が将来起こりうる災害リスクに備えるための最先端技術に目を向けがちである。そうした先端技術はもちろん重要であるが[[…

Ko Takeuchi |
環境, 都市開発, 水

Are we listening to our ancestors’ warnings?

Also available in: Russian The “miracle pine, ” a 250-year-old tree that survived the 2011 tsunami in Japan, has been preserved as a memorial to the 19, 000 victims of the disaster. (Photo via…

Ko Takeuchi |
Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Environment, Urban Development, Water

From the “Laguna” to the Delta: Can lessons from Venice help us manage flood risk in Vietnam?

Upon completion of the MOSE project in 2018, a series of flood gates between Venice's Lagoon and the Adriatic Sea will protect the city from high tide and storm surges. Credit: NASA Venice…

Linh X. Le |
Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Environment, Urban Development, Water