1st International Conference on Urban Sustainability and Resilience
Conference Programme
Monday, 5 November 2012
09:00 - 16:00
Registration (Foyer of Anatomy JZ Young Lecture Theatre - until 11am)
(Wilkins North Cloisters - after 11am)
09:30 - 11:00
Opening Ceremonies
Keynote Address: Charles Redman, Global Institute of Sustainability
(Anatomy JZ Young Lecture Theatre)
11:00 - 11:30
Morning Break (Wilkins North Cloisters)
11:30 - 13:00
11:30 - 11:50
Feeding the City
(Anatomy JZ Young LT)
Can own-grown food contribute significantly to urban
sustainability? Evidence from the UK
Water Management
(Old Refectory)
The design in the sustainable management of stormwater
Eleonora Valenti, Gambaro Matteo, Tartaglia Andrea
Jill Edmondson, Sarah Palmer, Jonathan Potter, Kevin Gaston,
Jonathan Leake
11:50 - 12:10
Resilient food systems and the city
Jody Harris
12:10 - 12:30
An assessment framework for urban sustainability with a
focus on food security
Iftekhar Ahmed, Malone-Lee Lai Choo, Heng Chye Kiang, Lin
Guangming
12:30 - 12:50
13:00 - 14:00
Eco-system Services
(Haldane Room)
Green and cool roofs: implications for summertime heatrelated mortality in London
Antonia Jansz, Michael Davies, Jenny Stocker
Eco-efficiency indicators and a tool for the urban water cycle
management of European small-medium cities
Using biomimicry to inform urban infrastructure design that
addresses 21st century needs
Suzy McEnnis, Desirée Marin, Gumersindo Feijoo, Joan
Rieradeval, Francesc Hernandez-Sancho
Jillian Kenny, Arun Kumara, Cheryl Deshab
Water-integrated urbanism: assessing how cities can be
more water-secured through the "city as a catchment
concept", using Singapore as a case study
Engineering the soil carbon sink: carbon storage in urban
soils
Iftekhar Ahmed, Lai Choo Malone-Lee, Chye Kiang Heng
Eliza Lopez-Capel, David A.C. Manning, Carla-Leanne
Washbourne
A Cost Analysis of Rainwater Cistern Systems for Ibadan,
Nigeria
Evaluating the role of green infrastructure as an integral
element of urban sustainability and resilience
Omolara Lade, D.A. Oloke , E. Chinyio, M.A. Fullen
Paula Vandergert
Lunch Break (Wilkins North Cloisters)
14:00 - 15:30
14:00 - 14:20
Eco-cities
(Anatomy JZ Young LT)
Developing an urban eco-settlement policy framework for
Aire Valley, Leeds
Energy Technologies
(Old Refectory)
Disasters and Vulnerabilities
(Haldane Room)
The solar thermal chimney for low-carbon power generation
Housing relocation arrangement based on map of memories
methodology as a decision tool towards social resilience in
a post-disaster regeneration process
Patrick Cottam, Philippe Duffour, Paul Fromme
Claire Hannibal, Ann Stewart
Ivana Almeida de Figueiredo, Tomonari Yashiro, Hiroshi Ota
14:20 - 14:40
Regenerating Lago waterfront through eco-city development
Enitan Oloto, Anthony K. Adebayo
Regional-scale modelling on the potential of energy, cost and
carbon emission savings from retrofit of low carbon
measures in the Welsh domestic sector
African cities and their vulnerabilities and resilience to
climate change induced hazards
Nathalie Jean-Baptiste, Sigrun Kabisch, Christian Kuhlicke
Kruti Gandhi, Aliki Georgakaki, Niall Kerr, Andy Gouldson,
Malcolm Eames
14:40 - 15:00
15:00 - 15:20
Between the global and the local: the ideologies and realities
of sustainable urban projects
The effect of thermal mass and thermal insulation on retrofit
under climate change
Resilience Tested. 2 years – 10,000+ aftershocks.
Christchurch, New Zealand
Federico Cugurullo, Elizabeth Rapoport
Ljubomir Jankovic, Halla Huws
Chris Hawker, Thomas M. Wilson, Jarg R. Pettinga, Mark
Quigley; Sarah Beaven, Erica Seville
Regional camouflage as a landscape reconnector
An integrated refurbishment design process to upgrade the
energy efficiency of residential buildings
Paola Sturla
Thaleia Konstantinou, Ulrich Knaack
15:30 - 16:00
Afternoon Break (Wilkins North Cloisters)
16:00 - 17:30
16:00 - 16:20
The Changing City
(Anatomy JZ Young LT)
Caution: Interdependencies. On the inter-linkages between
energy efficiency policies, residential segregation and urban
dynamics
Measuring Sustainability
(Old Refectory)
Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure
(Haldane Room)
The sustainability of transport systems in island settings: the
case of Malta
Material risks to sustainable urban infrastructure
transitions
Maria Attard
Jonathan Busch, Julia K. Steinberger, David Dawson
The role of visioning techniques to create sustainable urban
transport futures
A matrix framework for assessing sustainable houses and
communities research in UK urban areas
Miles Tight, Paul Timms, David Watling
Malcolm Morgan, Heather Cruickshank
Towards sustainable and resilient (SuRe) infrastructure:
material dependency and the analysis of local vs global
properties
Katrin Großmann, Sigrun Kabisch
16:20 - 16:40
David Dawson, Phil Purnell, Jonathan Busch, Katy Roelich,
Julia K. Steinberger, Ruairi Revell
16:40 - 17:00
Social sustainability in policy and practice: what does it mean
for urban planning and development
Towards defining a quantitative methodology to enhance the
sustainability performance of major international events
SECURE (Self Conserving URban Environments) project: the
route to delivering sustainability
Saffron Woodcraft
Olga Parkes, Paola Lettieri, David Bogle
Fabio Galatioto, Patrizia Franco, Margaret Bell, Glyn RhysTyler, Anil Namdeo
17:00 - 17:20
Future Cities: Higher vulnerability for smart infrastructures
Measuring the sustainability of projects and programmes
Francesca Medda
Victoria Maynard
Resource efficient and service-oriented infrastructure
operation: the role of multi-utility service companies in
driving towards sustainable and resilient urban
infrastructure systems
Katy Roelich
17:30 - 18:30
Keynote Address: Sandy Halliday, Gaia Group
(Anatomy JZ Young Lecture Theatre)
19:30
Dinner
Tuesday, 6 November 2012
08:30 - 09:45
Registration (Foyer of Anatomy JZ Young Lecture Theatre)
09:00 - 10:00
Keynote Address: Jeff Kenworthy, Curtin University
(Anatomy JZ Young Lecture Theatre)
10:00 - 10:30
Morning Break (Wilkins North Cloisters)
10:30 - 12:00
Perspectives on Urban Resilience
(Chadwick B05 LT)
10:30 - 10:50
Multidisciplinary perspectives on urban resilience
The role of social capital in building adaptive capacity to
climate change
Paula Villagra-Islas
Alla Berberyan
Towards achieving resilience at the rural-urban fringe: The
case of Jamestown, South Africa
Learning from local knowledge: towards disaster-adaptive
costal settlements in Bangladesh
Corrine Cash
Afroza Parvin, Cassidy Johnson
Disaster resilience in urban centres
The only way is up: greenroofs, nature and the city
Sandrine Roussy
Jane Dickson
Putting people at the centre of climate change adaptation
plans: a vulnerability approach
Resilience declension at the urban level
Irina Rotaru
11:10 - 11:30
Social Capital and Adaptation
(Haldane Room)
Landscape change and urban resilience: the role of nature in
earthquake recovery in the city of Valdivia, Chile
Marta Olazabal
10:50 - 11:10
The Role of Green and Open Spaces
(Old Refectory)
Jennifer Pierce, Neema Kudva, Andrew J. Rumbach
11:30 - 11:50
Veneto 2100, Living with water: from resistance to resilience
Spaces for urban resilience
Marco Ranzato, Sahdia Khan, Fabio Vanin
Emilio Jose Garcia, Brenda Vale
Understanding resilience in rapidly urbanizing areas:
adaptive capacity and ecosystem services in the slums of
Kampala, Uganda
James Waters
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch Break & Poster Presentations (Wilkins South Cloisters)
14:00 - 15:00
14:00 - 14:20
14:20 - 14:40
Measuring Resilience
(Chadwick B05 LT)
Behaviour Change
(Old Refectory)
Climate Change Adaptation in Developing Countries
(Haldane Room)
Methods for predicting future energy demands to assess
energy system resilience
Do solar panels change behaviour? Insights from a
Birmingham case study
Urban housing, homelessness, resilience and adaptation to
climate change in Lagos Megacity, Nigeria
David P. Jenkins, Sandhya Patidar, Sophie A. Simpson
Beck Collins
Adetokunbo Oluwole Ilesanmi
The measure of urban resilience
Using disruption to change travel practices
Silvio Caputo, Mark R. Gaterell
David Williams, Tim Chatterton, Graham Parkhurst
Measuring resilience for adapting with climate extremes:
gender dynamics and the built environment in urban poor
households
Huraera Jabeen
14:40 - 15:00
Tomorrow's cities: a framework for building resilience
Sebastian Macmillan, Florence Collier, Jennifer Hambling ,
Sam Kernaghan, Bora Kovacevic, Rebecca Miller, Aitana Paya,
Elizabeth Richardson
Empowering people to live low carbon and sustainable
lifestyles in urban developments in the UK
A systems approach to building urban climate resilience:
evidence from 10 cities in Asia
Steffie Broer, Helena Titheridge
Jo da Silva, Sam Kernaghan, Andres Luque
15:00 - 15:30
Afternoon Break (Wilkins North Cloisters)
15:30 - 16:30
Panel Discussion (Anatomy JZ Young Lecture Theatre)
16:30 - 16:45
Prizes and Closing Ceremony (Anatomy JZ Young Lecture Theatre)