Podcast

Episode 11: Mainstreaming and Institutionalizing urban resilience featuring Cape Town

Jun 2023

About This Episode

In this episode, our Executive Director Lauren Sorkin hosts Cape Town’s Executive Director for Future Planning and Resilience, Gareth Morgan. He takes us through the exciting frontier work that he is undertaking to institutionalize and mainstream resilience in all the various aspects of the city’s work, from the development of the Cape Town 2050 Strategy and multi-year capital portfolio management to business continuity services and risk management. Gareth gives us insight into how Cape Town has built its capacity to respond to shocks and stresses by adopting the resilience mindset.

The Speakers

Lauren Sorkin

Gareth Morgan

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