City risk diagnostic for urban resilience in Indonesia

In 2012, the World Bank initiated the Building Urban Resilience in East Asia program, aimed
at increasing the resilience of cities to disasters and the impact of climate change by using a
risk-based approach to making public investment decisions. The objective is to demonstrate
a scalable methodology and practical tools for risk assessment that can be used for city-level
investment decisions. As part of this program, a book entitled “Building Urban Resilience:
Principles, Tools and Practice” was published in 2013, providing a framework to implement
urban resilience activities. With the support from East Asia Infrastructure for Growth (EAIG),
a regional trust fund supported by the Australian Government, an activity was conducted to
experiment with the implementation of this framework in Indonesia.
This activity started with engaging selected cities that have reasonable complexity and are
experiencing significant growth. The next step involved conversations about disaster and
climate risks confronting the cities and the options that they could consider in building
resilience. The result of this experiment is presented in this book. It is hoped that this will be
the first in a series of publications on the development and adaptation of principles, tools and
practices for urban resilience in the Indonesian context.
The book begins with two chapters on the disaster and climate vulnerabilities in the context
of Indonesian cities, and the basic framework developed by the World Bank Building Urban
Resilience in East Asia program. The subsequent two chapters describe the Rapid Risk
Diagnostic as the first step in the urban resilience engagement, and the summary of the
diagnostic findings in selected Indonesian cities. The final chapter provides a glimpse of how
options to invest in resilience can be materialized in practice as part of a city’s development.
Presented with many visuals, maps and illustrations, we hope the book will be enjoyable and
informative for urban development practitioners.

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https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/ae99641d-0b19-5be1-a094-fda8ded986e1