[WEBCAST] Disruptive Asia | Building Community Resilience Amidst Uncertainty
VIEW EVENT DETAILSExploring the need for community-led responses to sustainable development efforts in 2020
How can we build community resilience, adapt for survival, and ensure inclusive and sustainable growth in the face of global uncertainty?
While Asia’s much heralded economic reform has led to significant social and economic gains in recent decades, its resulting urban growth has seen widening social disparity and a growing income gap in major cities across the region. COVID-19 has only increased the fragility of these densely built-up urban spaces, putting development efforts on hold as cities struggle under the immense pressure to provide for their citizens on the most fundamental levels.
Development is not sustainable if it is not fair and inclusive, and the collective response to the pandemic must safeguard any progress made on social equality, inclusion, and the realisation of human rights. This is essentially a human crisis and most fundamentally the recovery needs to focus on people and their communities.
Join University of Sydney Professor Alana Mann, Chief Resilience Officer at the City of Sydney Beck Dawson, and Oxfam Chief Executive Lyn Morgain, as we discuss the quest for human-centred, inclusive growth and explore the vital role of resilient cities and community-led development projects in ensuring sustainable development across the region.
This discussion will be the fourth in a live webcast series exploring the Sustainability Edition of Asia Society Australia’s Disruptive Asia project, a major thought-leadership initiative that looks at how Asia’s rise is impacting Australia’s foreign policy, economy and society and how Australia should respond. In 2020, we ask if Asia’s rise is sustainable – environmentally, economically and socially?
Date: Thursday 27 August 2020
Time: 3 - 3:45 p.m. AEST
This event is open to the public and will be cast through YouTube LIVE. Registration is essential.
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