Rise Africa: Building Climate Change Resilient African Cities with Dr Mzime Ndebele-Murisa

Published: July 18, 2021, 9:54 p.m.

In this episode of the Sustain267 Podcast, we explore what climate resilience is and what role it plays in growing African countries with Dr Mzime Ndebele-Murisa. We explore the complexities of building climate change resilient  African cities, the best-practice methods and highlight the leading African countries on climate change resilience. This conversation is guided by Dr Murisa’s paper "City to city learning and knowledge exchange for climate resilience in southern Africa”. This episode is part of the ICLEI Africa and the African Centre for Cities, RISE Africa’s discussion series. This series is supported by the South African National Research Foundation, you may find more thought pieces on the Rise Africa Platform

Dr. Murisa’s Professional pages:

1. Google scholar: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PFxBl1YAAAAJ&hl=en

2. LinkedIn: https://zw.linkedin.com/in/mzime-murisa-57142b15

3. ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mzime-Ndebele-Murisa

Notes:

New York floods

Durban floods in 2019

Projects mentioned by Dr. Murisa:

FRACTAL: www.fractal.org.za and https://start.org/prosus3 (magazine special issue) and  https://start.org/startcast/season-2 (podcast series focusing on FRACTAL)

EPIC: www.epic.org

SIVIO Institute Residents Associations inter-city virtual tours for knowledge exchange: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oD2GGPvvgA&list=PLLfoFtOQC_mOU6nl5SMTZlFuBfvWrh_e9