TRANSCEND
Higher Education - , England, United Kingdom
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Climate change has caused increased flooding, earthquakes, landslides and droughts across the world. Current urban development practices do not take these risks into account, leaving vulnerable communities exposed to the consequences of these natural disasters.Transforming current urban development and disaster management practices will empower these communities, allowing them to have a fuller understanding of the impact of proposed developments on their people, economy and environment.Achieving this transformation requires new partnerships and the creation of new ways of working. These will allow government agencies and communities to work together to analyse, forecast, visualize and debate disaster risk and to ensure sustainability and equitable resilience are built into development plans.The TRANSCEND project is taking a proactive approach to these climate change problems by setting up three Living Labs as experimental and learning environments in Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Malaysia.Working collaboratively with a range of academic experts, government organisations, NGOs and marginalized communities, the project seeks to transform current urban planning practices by developing an advanced digital platform that allows all stakeholders to take part in risk sensitive urban planning.Based on the THINKlab's digital expertise and the disaster risk reduction expertise within the Centre for Disaster Resilience at the University of Salford, the project seeks to allow evidence-based decision-making that exploits the power of data, modelling, urban simulation and visualization.
TRANSCEND Technologies
Load Balancers
Apache
CMS
WordPress.org
Fonts
Google Font API
Hosting
HostPapa
CSS and JavaScript Libraries
Bootstrap Framework
Other
Mobile Friendly