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This is a group of cities around the world in our town would bring the experience gained by the local government as a town in response to situations of natural disaster.
Councillors Management for Earthquake Recovery and Emergency Lorca, Satur Martinez and Eduardo Sanchez, reported this morning that Lorca will submit an application to join the International Forum "100 Resilient Cities Challenge", a group organized by the Rockefeller Foundation.
The lessons we have learned in our city in the wake of natural disasters we have suffered in recent times are composed of a remarkable experience heritage, particularly aimed at establishing criteria and schedules optimized to respond to a crisis situation.
The city administration and the various bodies and security forces and emergency services, and professionals from multiple areas (urban planning, social services, oenegés ...) now have more specific ideas on how to deal with a situation of this type, and also have established new projects and contributions that can help disaster response as those wins were even more effective Lorca.
The "Challenge 100 Cities Resilient" is an initiative of the Rockefeller Foundation to reach the hundred urban areas with a defined structure and active, attractive addition to the other components of the network resilience;
product of their experience of natural disasters and crisis situations.
Defined resilience as "the capacity of individuals, communities, institutions, companies and systems within a city to adapt and grow, no matter what kind of chronic stress (tension) or experiencing a critical situation," Lorca is from This year candidate to join this exclusive community of cities that have much to contribute to disaster management, after the earthquake of 2011, the floods of 2012 and its subsequent treatment.
So we encourage those who have believed the nomination, City of Lorca and Lorca startup "Made2Dream" and it coincided promoters of the idea.
In a first call they selected 32 cities like Dakar, Rio de Janeiro or Los Angeles, New York, Melbourne and San Francisco.
In Europe are Bristol, Glasgow, Rome, Rotterdam and Vejle, cities after a disaster plan have activated their resilience and are able to feed back their consequences in the form of lessons and have the ability to transmit them to their peers.
This bid to challenge Lorca 100 Cities Resilient supposed to be part of a project of interaction between places that have experienced similar circumstances to ours, from which we can learn and whose network we also contribute.
On Wednesday, December 3 announced the new selected cities.
If finally selected our bid, we enter into a process of 6-9 months duration aimed identification of critical risks to generate a roadmap whose destination is the continuous improvement in preparing for a disaster.
Not only is it the dangers themselves like earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, or Industrial- accidents but the mode of action of the city in terms of its ability to serve its citizens and tensions or crises that may arise.
For the Foundation, is a resilient city that has a good capacity to respond to emergencies in economic diversity, care of its infrastructure, has effective leadership, go to the key players and has a comprehensive planning system.
Once on the network, the city will have an Agency Resilience whose commitment is to keep traceability project and serve as a link with the group, always with the aim of sharing information about their challenges, innovations and achievements.
Information and collaboration.
The Foundation is responsible for financing the entire project including access to an innovative platform with tools to design, implement and manage the plan of resilience.
The strategy of resilience of the network 100RC try Lorca what priorities are in terms of infrastructure, what their vulnerable populations and their natural environment, etc.
then identify real implementation projects.
We are talking, for example, as basic as understanding their own social profile to the disaster or crisis situation, to describe it as facts like building a dam, improve energy network, leading a structural change, encourage the creation of communities in certain neighborhoods or focus on economic diversity.
Definitely understand and address their needs and prioritize their executions to address disaster communities through synergy in circumstances similar to ours.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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