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18 Asia Pac. J. Envtl. L. 91 (2016)
Climate Disasters and Cities: The Role of Local Government in Increasing Urban Resilience

handle is hein.journals/apjel18 and id is 93 raw text is: Climate Disasters and Cities: The Role of Local Government in Increasing Urban Resilience Jonathan Struggles* Abstract This article explores the important role that local government has in ensuring disaster risk reduction and increased resilience of cities in the face of climate disasters. It includes discussion of the interaction between local government and other levels of government (regional, national and international), as well as public and private actors. It also examines the links between disaster risk reduction and the wider goals of sustainability and climate change mitigation and adaptation. The article reviews the climate change plans of various cities. It concludes that local government is, of all levels of government, most closely connected to the problems climate disasters pose to cities and, therefore, it is local government that is best placed to take action to increase urban resilience to such disasters. Local government will, however, be most successful when it works with other levels of government, and both public and private actors. Further, it is critical that decisions made by local government consider simultaneously the goals of sustainability and climate change mitigation and adaptation generally, alongside the issue of disaster risk reduction. I Introduction Local government has a key role to play in reducing the risks posed by climate disasters to the world's cities. Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent as a result of climate change, and correspondingly the risk of disaster in urban areas from, for example, flooding or heat waves is increasing. As the world becomes increasingly urbanised, the vulnerability of growing numbers of people to the negative consequences of climate disasters will be determined, in part, by the decisions made by local governments responsible for shaping the cities in which they live. It is therefore critical that decisions made by local government, and the consequential laws and regulations passed, not only promote the goals of sustainability, and climate change mitigation and adaptation generally, but also properly consider the issue of disaster risk reduction ('DRR'). In doing so urban resilience will be increased and opportunities will be realised MEnvLaw (Syd).

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