Essays about: "urban resiliency"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words urban resiliency.

1. 1. Community Continuity Management : An Exploration of the Energy Production and Use of a Fictional Stockholm Neighbourhood in a Crisis

   University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studier

   Author : Nils Brattgård; [2023]
   Keywords : Business Continuity Management; Community Continuity Management; Energy Community; Energy Resilience; Energy; Resilience; Preparedness; Adaptation; Wellness; Wellbeing; Blackout; Power Failure; High Impact Low Probability; Crisis; Disaster; Kontinuitetshantering; Community Continuity Management; Energigemenskap; Energiresiliens; Energi; Resiliens; Beredskap; Anpassning; Välmående; Välbefinnande; Strömavbrott; Elkris; High Impact Low Probability; Kris; Katastrof;

   Abstract : In an increasingly interconnected, and electricity-reliant world, households are asked to build up their resilience to crises. Local, distributed electricity production within a microgrid with capability to operate disconnected from the larger grid has been shown to be an effective tool for increasing power system resilience in the past. READ MORE

3. 2. Ecosystem Employment in Jakarta, Indonesia - Ecological Applications in Urban Design

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö

   Author : Holley Nicole Stringham; [2023]
   Keywords : ecosystem services; ecology; urban design; disaster management; climate change; urban resiliency; Arts and Architecture;

   Abstract : Nature has a special knack for survival. After millennia of beating the odds against an inhospitable planet, many species have found clever ways to ensure self-preservation on an often inhospitable planet. By refining special skills and working alongside other members of the ecosystem, countless species have found a stable role in the landscape. READ MORE

4. 3. THE NEW 'GOOD': Exploring a new urban lifestyle that would ensure us with a resilient future in central Stavanger, Norway

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö

   Author : Katerina Rybinova; [2022]
   Keywords : Urban design; Sustainable development; Brownfield transformation; Green-blue infrastructure; Circular economy; Waterfront; Stavanger; Norway; Arts and Architecture;

   Abstract : We want to have a good life! In fact, this is the core of urbanism and the reason why we keep building and constantly improving our cities. The ideal of how we wanted to live has changed through the time and developed into a form many people are satisfied with. But there is so much behind us living this ‘good life’. READ MORE

5. 4. Flood Management in the Kamrangirchar Slum of Dhaka, Bangladesh

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Olivia Emelie Kjellgren; [2021]
   Keywords : Flooding; flood management; disaster management; disaster risk reduction; disaster recovery; disaster resilience; disaster preparedness; climate change; livelihood; vulnerability; adaptation; assets; economic insecurity; infrastructure; slum; sewerage networks; sanitation; housing; sustainable development; onion-peel approach; mixed method design; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : A study on the Kamrangirchar slum of Dhaka, Bangladesh has been completed by analyzing literature involving qualitative data, as well as quantitative data using a mixed method research design. The quantitative data from the World Bank (2020) and the UNDP (2020) is provided as background for the research. READ MORE

6. 5. Västra piren - från industriområde till hållbar stadsdel : transformation till ett produktivt landskap

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

   Author : Maja Råby; Johanna Sunesson; [2019]
   Keywords : landskapsarkitektur; hållbar stadsplanering; transformation av postindustrilla landskap; productive cities; produktivt landskap;

   Abstract : Frågan om hållbar stadsutveckling är ständigt närvarande i dagens stadsbyggnaddiskussion. Hållbarhet är i sig ett brett och således vagt begrepp och vad som betraktas som hållbar utveckling skiljer sig åt beroende utifrån vilket perspektiv man väljer att betrakta begreppet. READ MORE