2016 International Conference on Resilient Cities

The International
Conference on Resilient Cities
Haifa, Israel
September 26-29, 2016

Introduction
City resilience is the city’s ability to withstand or recover from an adverse event, either natural or resulting from human action. As urbanization continues, larger population in smaller areas is exposed to the effects if global weather extremities, political and military conflicts, economic crises and other disasters. An alternative perspective is that focusing ourefforts to assure resilience in cities is the most cost effective way to protect population from disaster. Cities are resilient if they absorb shocks, such as Hurricane Sandy and maintain their output of goods and services for their inhabitants. As centers of global population, economy, and culture, urban areas must be able to withstand stress and shocks to physical, socio- economic, and ecological systems. The capacity to survive, adapts, and recover from a crisis or disaster is a city’s resilience. Furthermore, resilience is a key to local development.

The International conference on resilient cities aims to discuss the Vulnerability of modern cities and ways to deal with them, considering local management of health and social infrastructures, governance, urban planning, and advanced technologies.

The conference encourages multi disciplinary approachesto the challenges of "resilient cities".
As such, it will host participants with from wide range of backgrounds , including academic researchers, municipal experts, emergency response units, disaster and risk assessments consultants, urban planners, and more.

Conference topics
01. Urban regeneration and sustainability
02. Water security
03. Resilient Urban Food Systems
04. Resilient public health systems
05. Resilience of communications and communications for resilience
06. Risk and vulnerability assessment
07. Local Governanceand policy making
08. Integrated climate actions
09. City-to-city cooperation
10. Multi-stakeholder and community-based collaboration
11. Financing resilience and resilient development
12. New urbanism approach for resilient cities
13. Adaptation and resilience planning
14. Resilient urban Infrastructure
15. Resilient urban logistics
16. Smartcity infrastructure and resilience


Program outline

Monday, September 26, 2016
Preconference seminars and workshops
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
plenary session
Parallel sessions
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Parallel sessions
Thursday, September 29, 2016
Professional tours


Important dates:
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Abstract submission deadline: June 30, 2016 (instructions below)
Notification on approved abstracts: July 7, 2016
Full papers submission July 30, 2016

Scientific committee
Prof. Moshe Inbar, University of Haifa
Prof. Avner Adin, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. Debra Shmueli, University of Haifa
Dr. Yaacov Adler, UN special peace forces, medical officer
Dr. Asher Vaturi, The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College

Info : http://www.ecoknowledge-tours.co.il/