Spatialising Challenges and Opportunities

Step 1: Using the map resulting from the Localising Issues in the City Map exercise*, identify different shocks and stresses possibly associated with each issue you have identified (for the cases where the issues are not shocks or stresses already).

Step 2: Discuss in small groups which shocks and stresses are primary and what are secondary (e.g. if flooding events – primary – lead to pandemics – secondary).

Step 3: For the main risk drivers, map more in detail the area of direct and indirect impact.

Step 4: Confirm if any new SDGs or other relevant global goals from the original exercise are related to the new elements added to the map, and highlight the SDGs associated with the risk drivers.

For a more detailed and quantitative assessment of vulnerabilities and capacities within your city, you can refer to the Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment tool from the Red Cross (see reference below).

Map of the city in proper resolution and size, dots, post-its and markers (from original exercise).

It is important that the participants are familiar with the concepts of “shocks” and “stresses” (see tool “Rapid Assessment of Long-Term Vision” under Raise Awareness), as well as direct and indirect impacts (see references below).

*Alternatively, participants can start a new map by identifying different shocks and stresses in the different areas of the city. Another possibility is for participants to draw their own city map from scratch, which is a useful exercise to reflect on how each person sees their own city/neighbourhood.

City Resilience Framework

Toolkit for a Resilient Recovery – “Recovery Resilience Assessment” and “Scenario Planning”

Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (VCA)