Webinar Series | Urban Resilience Practices from Northeast Asian Cities

Korea, Democratic People's Republic of  

We are respectfully inviting you and your colleagues to support and participate in our online series on Urban Resilience Practices from Northeast Asian Cities, this coming first week of December: 

• First Session. Urban Resilience Lectures, Dec. 1, 2020, Tuesday, 3:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m., Korean Standard Time;
• Second Session. Evaluation Frameworks, Dec. 3, 2020, Thursday, 2:30 p.m. - 3:55 p.m., Korean Standard Time; 
• Third Session. Best Resilience Practices from Northeast Asia, Dec. 3, 2020, Thursday, 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m., Korean Standard Time

The online webinar will showcase successful local urban resilience programmes on cross-cutting themes such as disaster preparedness, emergency management, and long-term post-disaster recovery. It will also share lessons and inform decision-makers and practitioners on common success factors towards understanding and building capacities for urban resilience for cities in the Asia-Pacific.

The first session will feature best practices on climate resilience and flood mitigation from our event partners in China. For Session 2, CityNet partners Yonsei University and Korea Associates Business Consultancy will report the updates on their ongoing development of resilience tools that aim to help enhance urban resilience processes in cities. Moreover, Session 3 will feature practitioners’ experiences from Chinese, Japanese, and Korean cities.

The webinar is open to city officials and urban multi-stakeholders. Academic researchers, civil society and private sector actors who are interested in the field are also welcome to attend. 

Note that the first session will be presented in Chinese with simultaneous English interpretation. Sessions 2 and 3 will be presented in English, with simultaneous Chinese and Korean interpretation.

Please register at our Zoom meeting link: http://bit.ly/UrbanResiliencePractices. The first deadline for registration is on November 23, 2020 (Monday).

See you in our webinar! 

Truly yours,

(Sgd) Youngmin Chang
Programs Director