International Effort: Prepare Cities for Disasters

International Effort: Prepare Cities for Disasters

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The 100 Resilient Cities Centennial Challenge, pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation, will help thirty-three cities in its first year. The challenge seeks to make communities more resilient by being better prepared to withstand natural or manmade disasters, recover more quickly, and emerge stronger.

According to HLS News Wire Sandia National Labs has developed resilience methodologies, models and other tools which could be used to create a resiliency framework based on best practices worldwide, but adapted to cities’ individual needs, said Charles Rath, project lead for Sandia Labs.

The ultimate goal is to improve global stability by kick-starting a worldwide resiliency movement,” he said. “We want to use this experience to develop models and best practices that can be shared with cities across the world.”

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Under a five-year agreement, Sandia will supply cities with a toolkit of infrastructure and socio-economic models that will help local leaders better assess specific resilience challenges, set priorities and select the most cost-effective ways to address them.

Sandia’s experts have deep knowledge in how to address nearly every challenge a city might face — everything from how to make its energy grid more resilient to how to achieve a more clean and sustainable water supply,” Rath said.