PUBLIC LECTURE
Challenges to Melbourne’s Resilience
Presented by the PREPARE Research Group, the Planning Institute of Australia (Victoria) and the Melbourne School of Design.
Wednesday 19 October
Harold Woodruff Theatre, University of Melbourne
This is the first of three seminars on the role of planning in working towards a resilient built environment. This brings together a range of critical concerns such as disaster resilience, social equity, climate change adaptation and urban change. We aim to inform, provoke and apply resilience ideas while engaging with the challenges, possibilities and implications for the urban planning and related professions. Ideas and discussion will culminate in a joint policy statement, contribute to growing cross-disciplinary resilience capacity and identify next steps.
This first talk deals with fundamental information about resilience and sets the current context & trajectory of change in Melbourne to establish challenges, gaps and opportunities relating to resilience.
Speakers:
A/Prof Alan March is Associate Dean (under-graduate), and Director of Bachelor of Environments and Bachelor of Design, School of Design.
Toby Kent is Chief Resilience Officer for the City of Melbourne.
Lew Short is the General Manager of Risk, Consequence and Resilience at Emergency Management Victoria (EMV).
Terry Rawnsley is a renowned economist and National Leader at SGS for Economic and Social Analysis.
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