Building Resilience City
Building cities for more than half of the population on the planet becomes significant problem for environment. It has been long since we crossed the threshold when the cities were only a point of concentration of the population, trade, industry and transport. Today was simply impossible to follow sustainable development in cities with millions people without “big cuts”. New York, which has nearly nine million inhabitants and major cultural, historical and financial resources, rapidly approaching the danger area of climate change. The organization for Economic Cooperation and development (OECD) ranked this city among the top ten in the world who are exposed to the highest risk because of rising sea levels and predict that by 2070 as much as 2.9 million people and assets worth 2.1 billion dollars can be affected by floods caused by storms. Hurricane Sandy, which had devastating consequences, is one of the examples of global warming and the first warning of the dangers that can be expected in the future. …show more content…
The meteorological terminology that means that the cities could become victim of various anomalies and risks like a general increase in summer temperature with an increased risk of heat waves which would be stronger and longer, intense episodes of rainfall that would increase the risks of flooding Increasingly, city and local governments have stimulated these processes to take measures of social and technological innovations that give them time to adjust to foreseeable risks. In the last twenty years, the local authorities are becoming an increasingly important factor in mitigating and adapting to global climate
Building cities for more than half of the population on the planet becomes significant problem for environment. It has been long since we crossed the threshold when the cities were only a point of concentration of the population, trade, industry and transport. Today was simply impossible to follow sustainable development in cities with millions people without “big cuts”. New York, which has nearly nine million inhabitants and major cultural, historical and financial resources, rapidly approaching the danger area of climate change. The organization for Economic Cooperation and development (OECD) ranked this city among the top ten in the world who are exposed to the highest risk because of rising sea levels and predict that by 2070 as much as 2.9 million people and assets worth 2.1 billion dollars can be affected by floods caused by storms. Hurricane Sandy, which had devastating consequences, is one of the examples of global warming and the first warning of the dangers that can be expected in the future. …show more content…
The meteorological terminology that means that the cities could become victim of various anomalies and risks like a general increase in summer temperature with an increased risk of heat waves which would be stronger and longer, intense episodes of rainfall that would increase the risks of flooding Increasingly, city and local governments have stimulated these processes to take measures of social and technological innovations that give them time to adjust to foreseeable risks. In the last twenty years, the local authorities are becoming an increasingly important factor in mitigating and adapting to global climate