CONFERENCE TOPICS

The Barcelona conference will convene academics from different disciplines and policy leaders to discuss the most relevant research challenges related to urban resilience conceptualization and implementation. The conference will help to bridge science and policy while supporting a consistent operationalization of the New Urban Agenda and the 11th Sustainable Development Goal: “Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable.”

Researchers, practitioners, multilateral agencies, civil society and city-to-city learning networks will collectively shape debates around how to critically understand and integrate different urban resilience implementation perspectives, contributing to more holistic and inclusive urban resilience approaches.

Outputs from this first international event will feed into the Jakarta conference, a few months later.