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Tomorrow’s Cities approach to risk

Current approaches to risk

• Concentrate on existing exposure and vulnerability.
• Emphasis on monetary asset value.
• Neglect inter-dependencies between hazards and human activity.
• Examine the impact of single hazards.
• Rely on models with limited empirical data.
• Focus from a single disciplinary perspective.
• Little or no involvement of local stakeholders.

• Focuses on better planning decisions.
• Co-produces with risk authorities and at-risk publics.
• Links governance, planning and community capacity.
• Includes multiple feedback loops in decision-making.
• Uses high-resolution, physics-based models of hazard.
• Includes multiple interacting and cascading hazards.
• Models impacts on human livelihoods and wellbeing.
• Captures the risk experience of marginalised communities.