URBE Latam: Understanding Risks and Building Enhanced Capabilities in Latin American cities

URBE Latam致力于解决可持续发展和公平复原力之间的实施差距。为此，它将采用跨学科研究方法，旨在增强易受灾害的城市贫困社区居民的权能，这将支持共同制作关于地方风险的更好的、针对具体情况的理解，并将由此产生的数据纳入减少灾害风险和可持续发展监测的决策程序。该项目由一个高技能的多学科研究团队进行（包括社会科学、工程学和物理学），并对公民生成的数据采取对话式共同制作方法，这种方法依赖于与里约热内卢和麦德林的地方发展、教育和减少灾害风险社区倡议建立的牢固伙伴关系，以及参与减少灾害风险和地方规划和发展的政府机构。URBE Latam从四个综合部分着手，寻求加强对易受灾害城市地区风险、脆弱性和地方能力的了解：首先，它的核心是让公民参与生成数据，以扩大对社区一级风险的理解;其次，将在分析城市和国家一级复原力和发展指标及政策方面的社会空间不平等的同时，推动公民参与风险;第三，这将导致根据公民生成的数据重新校准环境风险绘图;第四，这些组成部分在一个框架内得到阐述和整合，以促进不同级别和所涉利益攸关方之间的对话转变，推进这些产出的进程将进一步促进地方社区以及里约热内卢和麦德林政府的能力发展;这一进程将通过更广泛的传播提高其他拉丁美洲城市和国家利益攸关方的认识而得到加强。将与国际决策机构合作，将来自协作产生的公民生成数据的见解纳入灾害风险管理和发展监测实践（例如可持续发展目标报告），从而实现向更公平的减少灾害风险和可持续发展的转变。作为一项总体成果，该项目将促成实践的转变，增进各种利益攸关方的知识，并提高促进公平复原力的能力。

URBE Latam addresses the implementation gap between sustainable development and equitable resilience. It will do so by using a transdisciplinary research approach aimed at empowering residents of disaster-prone urban poor neighbourhoods, which will underpin the co-production of enhanced, context-specific understandings of local risks and the integration of the resulting data into decision-making procedures in disaster risk reduction and sustainable development monitoring. The project is conducted by a highly skilled multi-disciplinary research team (including social sciences, engineering and physical sciences) and adopts a dialogic co-production approach to citizen-generated data which relies upon well-established partnerships with community-based initiatives for local development, education and disaster risk reduction in Rio de Janeiro and Medellin, as well as with governmental agencies involved in disaster risk reduction and local planning and development.URBE Latam proceeds in four integrated components that seek an enhanced understanding of risks, vulnerabilities and local capabilities in disaster-prone urban areas: first it is centred on the engagement of citizens to generate data to expand understandings of risks at the neighbourhood level; second, citizens engagement in risk will be pursued alongside an analysis of socio-spatial inequalities in resilience and development indicators and policies at city and national level; third, this will lead to the recalibration of environmental risk mapping with citizen-generated data; fourth, these components are articulated and integrated within a framework to facilitate dialogic transformations across the different levels and stakeholders involved.The process of advancing these outputs will further enable capacity development in local communities and the governments of Rio de Janeiro and Medellin; a process which will be augmented by improving the awareness of stakeholders in other Latin American cities and countries through broader dissemination. Insights from collaboratively produced citizen-generated data will be integrated into the practices of disaster risk management and development monitoring (e.g. SDG reporting) in collaboration with international policymaking agencies, thus enabling transformations towards more equitable disaster risk reduction and sustainable development. As an overarching outcome, the project will enable the transformation of practices, improve knowledge among a diverse range of stakeholders and enhance capacity to promote equitable resilience.