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Building Resilience Workshop - February 25-27
The challenge of living with water is one shared by cities and communities around the world. Nowhere is this more true than in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region, where people live with a daily awareness of the threat, and opportunity, of water. Please join us at the Building Resilience Workshop, to be held February 25-27, 2010, in New Orleans, Louisiana, to explore innovative, sustainable ways of increasing community resilience in the face of global climate change.
Objectives: The primary objectives of the Building Resilience Workshop are to bring innovative flood mitigation techniques successfully used in Germany and the Netherlands to the attention of North American practitioners, policy-makers and community stakeholders, and to foster international collaboration to develop local solutions. 
The information exchange will include sustainable flood mitigation practices and strategies to create safe, permanent approaches to protect established communities and cultures in the face of impending environmental changes. Cascading levee systems and amphibious housing are urban flood resiliance strategies that are currently being implemented in other parts of the world. This workshop seeks to raise awareness of these and other advanced practices, especially among local at-risk regions and populations.
Goals: In the short term, the workshop will bring together engineers, architects, planners and academic researchers specializing in sustainable flood protection practices with policy makers, community organizers and public officials, helping to expand the knowledge base, build exchange networks among participants, and develop solutions. In the long term, the workshop will provide a springboard for the sharing of sustainable, low-impact technologies that save lives and make vulnerable communities, in North America and elsewhere, more resilient to climate change.
Please join us!
Post-Katrina New Orleans |
Amphibious Housing in the Netherlands |
