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Relevant city context

This resilience action plan, or in the case it was a strategy, is a carefully produced document involving considerable resources. Thus, larger cities might take on such a task. However, smaller cities should also be able to produce a suitable document that could also have a greater ownership from the significant stakeholders.

Goal: to deliver a resilient city and population

Bristol Resilience Strategy was developed with support from Rockefeller Foundation and launched November 2016.

The strategy can be found at: https://www.bristol.gov.uk/documents/20182/1308373/Bristol+Resilience+Strategy

The strategy has five themes: People; Places; Organisations; Prosperity and worth; Regional and Global. It addresses Resilience Paradoxes for each theme:

• People: Communities are diverse, but inequality threatens cohesion
• Places: Built environment is greened’ but not yet transformed
• Organisations: Civil society is engaged, but not connected
• Prosperity and worth: The city is economically successful, but not equally flourishing
• Regional and Global: The city is focused on strengthening local self-sufficiency but continues to be dependent on national and global systems

The strategy provides responses to the paradoxes through developing an ability to ‘Frame the future’ through five pillars: Fair; Liveable; Sustainable; Agile; Connected.

The strategy includes reimagining the city through specific strategies under each of the five themes. For example, the theme ‘People’ considers 8 strategies including cultural engagement to build social cohesion. This encompasses L3S1: ‘Develop a strategy to create a resilience culture’ and also links to the theme of Social Cohesion in the Risk Systemicity Questionnaire.

Cooperation among stakeholders

There was involvement of a range of senior managers within the City in the creation and writing of the strategy.

Resources

The City Chief Resilience Officer was responsible for the final published document.