Exploring cyclone risk in vulnerable settlements: investigating community focussed landscape interventions.

长期以来，飓风一直对城市构成重大风险，特别是在住房不达标和基础设施不足的沿海地区。该项目以“城市、环境和宜居性”为主题，探讨了热带风暴事件的强度和频率如何随着海洋温度的升高而增加，越来越多地影响低收入定居点，该项目旨在解决使这些住区在面对这些灾害时更具复原力的解决方案的需要。鉴于发展中国家的资源往往稀缺，应优先考虑低成本但有效的解决方案。它将探索实验性的解决方案，例如人工珊瑚礁以尽量减少风暴潮，涉及恢复已失去的东西，包括退化的沿海栖息地，包括红树林和沼泽，以及恢复数百年来与风暴共存的土著建筑实践。任何解决方案要想取得长期成功，都需要得到社区的广泛接受，并与改善受影响者的宜居性的努力同步发展。该项目明确阐述了路径主题，探讨了创新、恢复和社区能力建设如何帮助应对影响热带世界大部分地区的环境挑战，寻求直接帮助特定社区并创造可转移和可扩展的发展模式。

Cyclones have long posed significant risk to cities, especially in vulnerablecoastal areas with substandard housing and inadequate infrastructure.Speaking to the Pathway theme Cities, Environment, and Liveability, thisproject explores how the intensity and frequency of tropical storm eventsincreases with warming ocean temperatures increasingly affect low-incomesettlements, This project addresses the need for solutions to make suchsettlements more resilient in the face of these disasters. In light of oftenscarce resources in developing contexts, low-cost but effective solutionsshould be prioritised. It will explore experimental solutions, e.g. artificialreefs to minimise storm surge, solutions which involve recovery of what hasbeen lost including degraded coastal habitats, including mangroves andmarshes, and recovery of indigenous building practices evolved overcenturies of living with storms. For any solution to be successful in thelong-term, it needs to be widely accepted by the community and developedin tandem with efforts to improve the liveability of those affected. Clearlyspeaking to the Pathway theme, this project explores how innovation,recovery, and community capacity building can help tackle environmentalchallenges affecting large parts of the tropical world, seeking to bothdirectly help specific communities and create transferable and scalabledevelopment models.