Tomorrow's Cities risk agreement approach
Utilising the analytical, communication and convening power of science for inclusive, risk-sensitive urban planning
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22028461 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roberto Gentile (0000-0002-7682-4490), Tanvi Deshpande (0000-0003-4188-8483), Erdem Ozer, Sukirti Amatya, Nisha Shrestha (0000-0001-7591-4710), Ramesh Guragain (0000-0002-3852-2483), Margaret Pelling (0000-0002-6472-9875), HUGH SINCLAIR, Hugh D Sinclair (0000-0003-4719-7130) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 128 |
| Pages | 105659 |
| Publication date | 2025-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2212-4209 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105659 |
| OpenAlex | W4412085846 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 32 |
Global disaster risk reduction in urban development frameworks calls for people-centred, participatory, and integrated approaches to addressing urban risk and building resilience. This paper presents a methodology that engages communities at risk and policy actors to assess scientifically projected impacts of multiple hazards on locally defined future urban scenarios and co-develop measures to reduce future hazard impacts. The methodology enables stakeholders to identify barriers and strategies to support more people-centred, participatory, and risk-sensitive future urban development. Within a workshop, selected community groups are first introduced to an interactive dashboard that simplifies the communication of projected multi-hazard impacts (e.g., human displacement, casualties, loss of education capacity). Community groups identify and discuss the effects of different hazards, exposure, and vulnerability features along with projected impacts on community-led future urban scenarios. Such evidence-based and participatory discussions lead to a set of revisions of the urban scenarios. Finally, the groups discuss existing community, urban planning, and local decision-making challenges that could hinder the implementation of the urban scenarios. The proposed methodology is presented within the framework of the Tomorrow's Cities Decision Support Environment (TCDSE) and illustrated through a deployment in Rapti, Nepal. Findings confirm the ability of the approach to facilitate a shared understanding of context-specific risk amongst diverse local and policy actors. The combination of scientific and local information improves awareness and gives agency to marginalised groups for improved communication with urban planners in disaster risk reduction decision-making
Agreement · Business · Computer security · Environmental planning · Physics · Risk assessment · Computer Science · Engineering · Environmental and Social Impact Assessments · Environmental Science · Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Soil and Land Suitability Analysis
Towards people-centred approaches for effective disaster risk management
GIS‐based multicriteria decision analysis
International principles of disaster risk reduction informing NGOs strategies for community based DRR mainstreaming
Scoring, selecting, and developing physical impact models for multi-hazard risk assessment
Empowering women through participatory action research in community-based disaster risk reduction efforts
Incorporating social innovations in the elaboration of disaster risk mitigation policies
Participation as a requirement
Future exposure modelling for risk-informed decision making in urban planning
A state-of-the-art decision-support environment for risk-sensitive and pro-poor urban planning and design in Tomorrow's cities
Relationship between political participation and community resilience in the disaster risk process
Physics-based simulations of multiple natural hazards for risk-sensitive planning and decision making in expanding urban regions
People’s Participation in Disaster-Risk Reduction
“Lets talk about you …”
Normative future visioning
Participatory methods of integrated assessment—a review
Learning and Action Alliances for the integration of flood risk management into urban planning
Co-creating formalized models
From knowledge to action
Participatory approaches for disaster risk governance? Exploring participatory mechanisms and mapping to close the communication gap between population living in flood risk areas and authorities in Nova Friburgo Municipality, RJ, Brazil
Mainstreaming Risk Reduction in Urban Planning and Housing
Learning from others
| Citations per year | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |