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19 April 2018
Glasgow's Healthier Future Forum 21
Location: 200SVS, 200 St Vincent Street, Glasgow, G2 5RQ
View mapResilience in Glasgow: where next?
This event was an opportunity to discuss how we can build on the momentum established through Glasgow’s approach to what future challenges and opportunities may be and where the resilience concept can take us next.
In recent years, resilience has grown in significance within policy and practice responses to the challenges that face us, ranging from responses to climate change, inequalities and economic uncertainty. The launch of Glasgow City Council’s resilience strategy in September 2016 was a significant moment for the city, defining resilience as ‘the capacity to endure, adapt and generate new ways of thinking and functioning in the face of change, uncertainty and adversity’. The document identified four strategic pillars to focus action to increase our resilience: empowering communities, unlocking place-based solutions, innovating to promote economic growth and fostering civic participation.
Speakers included Duncan Booker, Glasgow’s Chief Resilience Officer and Sarah Toy, Chief Resilience Officer for Bristol’s resilience strategy. Workshops allowed exploration of areas where resilience responses are being practiced and help contribute to their continuing development. The workshops focused on early years, social protection, community planning, community engagement and climate adaptation.
View the presentations below
Resilience in Glasgow - where next?
Peter Seaman, Glasgow Centre for Population Health
Can a focus on urban resilience help to tackle inequality? Reflections from Bristol
Sarah Toy, Bristol City Council
People make Glasgow resilient - future challenges
Duncan Booker, Glasgow City Council
Workshop 1: Community planning & resilience
Karen McNiven, NHS GG&C
Workshop 2: Community resilience in the face of climate change
Frankie Barrett, Glasgow City Council & Gregor Yates, GCPH
Workshop 3: Social protection & resilience
Katharine Timpson, University of the West of Scotland, Rachel Hewitt, Glasgow Caledonian University & Ida Norberg, University of Glasgow
Workshop 4: Building resilience in the early years
Heather Douglas, Glasgow City Council & Valerie McNeice, GCPH
Workshop 5: Community resilience
Rosie Robertson, Calton Community & Learning Centre & Russell Jones, GCPH
Workshop 6: Volunteering: how do People make Glasgow?
David Maxwell, Volunteer Glasgow
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