🌐 Holistic Resilience Planning Frameworks
Cities are building frameworks to guide the assessment of risks, help set priorities and integrate resilience across policies, plans and investments through a comprehensive, systems-based approach.
How cities are applying it
• In Monterrey, Vejle, Addis Ababa and Sydney, the City Resilience Framework has helped map vulnerabilities across systems and guided governments toward a shared resilience agenda that aligns departments, partners and future investments.
• Across regions such as Gelderland in the Netherlands, Castilla y León in Spain and Ithaki in Greece, the Regional Resilience Journey provides a structured process for developing climate resilience strategies. It applies systemic analysis, just transition principles and builds coherent portfolios of adaptation actions.
These planning models enable cities and regions to work with a consistent method for diagnosing risks, uncovering interdependencies and designing integrated strategies that move beyond sectoral planning.
Why it matters
Frameworks give cities a common language for discussing resilience and a structured way to prioritise risks and opportunities. They support clearer decision-making, help link policies with investments and provide a basis for measuring progress over time. This turns resilience from an abstract goal into a practical backbone for planning and implementation.