upscaling resilience
Medellín, Colombia
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 project between Heriot-Watt University, The University of Edinburgh, Universidad Nacional de Colombia and the University of São Paulo. We provided an upscaling and internationalisation of the pilot undertaken in Comuna 8, Medellín through the #Resilience research. The project began on September 2017 and had a duration of 16 months.
The project #UpscalingResilience aims to explore 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 Medellín, Colombia, as well as in São Paulo, 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.
