Floods and Urban Connectivity : A Toolkit for Prioritizing Resilience Investments – Demonstration Note with Case Studies from Kinshasa and Kigali

Cities are intricately interconnected socioeconomic systems, with transport networks connecting people to their jobs, health, and education facilities, and ensuring the smooth functioning of supply chains. When floods happen, they isolate people an...

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Main Authors: Avner, Paolo, Maruyama Rentschler, Jun Erik, He, Yiyi, Thies, Stephan Fabian, Nell, Andrew David
Format: Brief
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC 2022
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spelling okr-10986-375762022-06-23T18:09:04Z Floods and Urban Connectivity : A Toolkit for Prioritizing Resilience Investments – Demonstration Note with Case Studies from Kinshasa and Kigali Avner, Paolo Maruyama Rentschler, Jun Erik He, Yiyi Thies, Stephan Fabian Nell, Andrew David URBAN MOBILITY FLOODING RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENCE INVESTMENT URBAN TRANSPORTATION TRANSPORTATION DISRUPTION ACCESS TO JOBS ACCESS TO EDUCATION ACCESS TO EMPLOYMENT RAINY SEASON DISRUPTION URBAN RESILIENCE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF INFRASTRUCTURE LOSS Cities are intricately interconnected socioeconomic systems, with transport networks connecting people to their jobs, health, and education facilities, and ensuring the smooth functioning of supply chains. When floods happen, they isolate people and firms from these vital networks, causing cascading disruptions and losses. Such floods are not limited to rare and extreme events. Especially in developing country cities, the lack of resilient infrastructure systems means that even regular rainfall events, for example, during rainy seasons, can cause havoc. Attention is often biased towards direct asset losses from floods, rather than the wider economic costs of disrupted networks. This is due primarily to the complex dynamics of economic and infrastructure networks. But public transport and road usage data are also often limited, especially when the predominant modes of transport are informal and walking. So how can we identify and prioritize cost-effective measures for urban resilience This note describes an analytical approach that can help prioritize investments in urban transport resilience and public transport, while also strengthening the economic case for such investments. 2022-06-21T15:46:44Z 2022-06-21T15:46:44Z 2022-06 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099140104282221130/P1726720c15a040060a441077c153405a5c http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37576 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC Publications & Research Africa Eastern and Southern (AFE) Africa Congo, Democratic Republic of Rwanda
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topic URBAN MOBILITY
FLOODING
RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE
RESILIENCE INVESTMENT
URBAN TRANSPORTATION
TRANSPORTATION DISRUPTION
ACCESS TO JOBS
ACCESS TO EDUCATION
ACCESS TO EMPLOYMENT
RAINY SEASON DISRUPTION
URBAN RESILIENCE
ECONOMIC IMPACT OF INFRASTRUCTURE LOSS
spellingShingle URBAN MOBILITY
FLOODING
RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE
RESILIENCE INVESTMENT
URBAN TRANSPORTATION
TRANSPORTATION DISRUPTION
ACCESS TO JOBS
ACCESS TO EDUCATION
ACCESS TO EMPLOYMENT
RAINY SEASON DISRUPTION
URBAN RESILIENCE
ECONOMIC IMPACT OF INFRASTRUCTURE LOSS
Avner, Paolo
Maruyama Rentschler, Jun Erik
He, Yiyi
Thies, Stephan Fabian
Nell, Andrew David
Floods and Urban Connectivity : A Toolkit for Prioritizing Resilience Investments – Demonstration Note with Case Studies from Kinshasa and Kigali
geographic_facet Africa Eastern and Southern (AFE)
Africa
Congo, Democratic Republic of
Rwanda
description Cities are intricately interconnected socioeconomic systems, with transport networks connecting people to their jobs, health, and education facilities, and ensuring the smooth functioning of supply chains. When floods happen, they isolate people and firms from these vital networks, causing cascading disruptions and losses. Such floods are not limited to rare and extreme events. Especially in developing country cities, the lack of resilient infrastructure systems means that even regular rainfall events, for example, during rainy seasons, can cause havoc. Attention is often biased towards direct asset losses from floods, rather than the wider economic costs of disrupted networks. This is due primarily to the complex dynamics of economic and infrastructure networks. But public transport and road usage data are also often limited, especially when the predominant modes of transport are informal and walking. So how can we identify and prioritize cost-effective measures for urban resilience This note describes an analytical approach that can help prioritize investments in urban transport resilience and public transport, while also strengthening the economic case for such investments.
format Brief
author Avner, Paolo
Maruyama Rentschler, Jun Erik
He, Yiyi
Thies, Stephan Fabian
Nell, Andrew David
author_facet Avner, Paolo
Maruyama Rentschler, Jun Erik
He, Yiyi
Thies, Stephan Fabian
Nell, Andrew David
author_sort Avner, Paolo
title Floods and Urban Connectivity : A Toolkit for Prioritizing Resilience Investments – Demonstration Note with Case Studies from Kinshasa and Kigali
title_short Floods and Urban Connectivity : A Toolkit for Prioritizing Resilience Investments – Demonstration Note with Case Studies from Kinshasa and Kigali
title_full Floods and Urban Connectivity : A Toolkit for Prioritizing Resilience Investments – Demonstration Note with Case Studies from Kinshasa and Kigali
title_fullStr Floods and Urban Connectivity : A Toolkit for Prioritizing Resilience Investments – Demonstration Note with Case Studies from Kinshasa and Kigali
title_full_unstemmed Floods and Urban Connectivity : A Toolkit for Prioritizing Resilience Investments – Demonstration Note with Case Studies from Kinshasa and Kigali
title_sort floods and urban connectivity : a toolkit for prioritizing resilience investments – demonstration note with case studies from kinshasa and kigali
publisher Washington, DC
publishDate 2022
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099140104282221130/P1726720c15a040060a441077c153405a5c
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