Community resilience and critical urban infrastructure: Where adaptive capacities meet vulnerabilities

Type Journal Article - NTS Insight
Title Community resilience and critical urban infrastructure: Where adaptive capacities meet vulnerabilities
Author(s)
Issue IN13-07
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2013
URL http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/rsis/nts/HTML-Newsletter/Insight/pdf/NTS_Insight_dec_1301.pdf
Abstract
In many of Southeast Asia’s cities, critical infrastructure development is concentrated in affluent areas; and poor communities, lacking access to basic services, often resort to alternatives that may be unsafe or more expensive. Crucially fr policymakers, these options leave communities vulnerable to a range of threats that reduce not just their own longterm resilience, but also that of the city overall. An examination of the ater infrastructure in Jakarta, Maila and Ho Chi Minh City amply illustrates this. The cases suggest that to bring about greater community resiliece, and thus ensure security and sustainable development, governments must vigorously upgrade critical infrastrucure not just to improve efficiency, but also to achieve equity among urban communities.

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