Upscaling Resilience
Medellín, Colombia
São Paulo, Brazil
Type: Funded through the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) made available by the British Academy’s Cities and Infrastructure programme
Client: Academic Research
Contract value: £295,000
Status: Completed February 2019
Collaboration: Heriot-Watt University, The University of Edinburgh, Universidad Nacional de Colombia sede Medellín, University of São Paulo
Publication: Hillside communities learn to mitigate landslide risks, Re.Think (rethink.earth: 2018)
This is a joint Heriot-Watt University/The University of Edinburgh/Universidad Nacional de Colombia/University of São Paulo project that provides an upscaling and internationalisation of the pilot undertaken in Comuna 8, Medellín through the #Resilience research. The project began on September 2017 and has a duration of 16 months.
The project #Upscaling Resilience aims to explore the scope for upscaling and transnational transfer of participatory landslide risk-reducing strategies for informal settlements in Latin America. Drawing on lessons from a pilot experience in a single small informal settlement in Medellin, Colombia, this project will roll out and evaluate the use of community-based participatory monitoring and mitigation of landslide risk across the city in Medellin, as well as in another city within a different Latin American country – São Paulo in Brazil.
The overall aim is to develop bottom-up approaches to dealing with landslide risks in cities around the Global South, in a way that optimises the collaboration between communities and relevant governmental bodies, as well as the collaborative use of ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ infrastructures.
http://www.medellin-urban-innovation.eca.ed.ac.uk/projects/upscaling-resilience/
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/projects/cities-landslide-risk-strategies-latin-america

