October 31st - November 4th, 2022.
More than two billion people living in cities with low-to-middle income are exposed to a broad spectrum of natural hazards such as floods, earthquakes, landslides, volcanoes, and fires. Climate change has amplified the intensity of these phenomena over the last few years.
Especially, when the urbanisation has contributed to a large expansion at unprecedented rates, which is expected to reach four billion by 2050 (UN-Habitat, 2021). Hazards can impact people’s lives and livelihoods, setting back progress on poverty alleviation and slowing long-term development.
Failure to integrate multi-hazard disaster risk into urban planning and related decision-making processes presents a major barrier to sustainable development. However, this challenge can be also an opportunity, as ~60% of the area is anticipated to be urban by 2030, and we can reduce disaster risk in tomorrow’s cities by design (UN-Habitat, 2021).
Our mission: Reducing disaster risk for the poor in tomorrow’s cities.
Tomorrow’s Cities is the UK Research and Innovation Global Challenges Research Fund Urban Disaster Risk Hub, which is a five-year global interdisciplinary research Hub participating more than 100 academics from nearly 30 institutions in the global North and global South.
We work globally to bring multi-hazard disaster risk management to the centre of urban policy and practice. Our aim is to catalyse a transition from crisis management to multi-hazard risk-informed planning and decision-making that strengthens the voice and capacity of the urban poor.