GB/T 43652-2024Sustainable cities and communities - Indicators for resilient cities (English PDF)

Foreword

This document is in accordance with the provisions of GB/T 1.1-2020 "Guidelines for standardization work Part 1: Structure and drafting rules for standardization documents" Drafting.

Introduction

Cities need indicators to establish baselines, measure and assess performance. Currently, existing indicators lack standardization, consistency or comparability.

Therefore, a series of standards are being developed to provide indicators for urban evaluation and to unify the measurement content, methods and approaches.

The first standard in this series, GB/T 36749, has become a reference for sustainable city indicators. GB/T 36749 has included some Based on the indicators related to city resilience planning and assessment, this document further proposes additional indicators for evaluating resilient cities.

ISO 37122 in the series of standards reflects additional indicators for evaluating smart cities.

Resilient cities are able to cope with shocks and stresses, and to prepare and recover, thus ensuring the normal functioning of the city.

The impact of natural or man-made extreme events has had different impacts on the lives and property of residents, and has also had a significant impact on production and living materials, these shocks include, but are not limited to, floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, infectious diseases, Chemical leaks and explosions, terrorism, power outages, financial crises, cyberattacks and conflicts. Resilient cities can mitigate the impacts of human activities and the natural environment.

Pressures arising from change, such as mitigating urban environmental degradation (such as poor air and water quality), social inequalities (such as chronic poverty and housing shortages), and the negative effects of economic instability (such as rapid inflation and long-term unemployment).

A city is prepared when it identifies potential risks in the city, takes actions to reduce vulnerability and risk, and improves the ability of individuals, families and communities to the level of attention and participation of families and businesses.

Resilient cities are able to recover from shocks in a timely and effective manner, with a focus on ensuring the continuity and rapid restoration of urban services such as electricity, water, and transportation.

communications, waste management, sanitation, food supply, financial services and emergency services.

The concept of resilient cities can help cities recognize the importance of adjusting systems and processes to ensure that cities can cope with shocks and stresses.

Building back better after extreme events and ensuring long-term prosperity.

Resilience is both a core element of sustainable development and an inevitable requirement for promoting sustainable development. This document focuses on the evaluation of resilience.

It is regarded as an important basis for the long-term sustainable development of the city.

Facing shocks and pressures, promoting sustainable urban development by maintaining and improving urban services and quality of life is the core of resilient cities.

Therefore, this document is implemented in conjunction with GB/T 36749.

The indicators selected for this document have been designed to make reporting as easy and cost-effective as possible and have been developed to help cities.

--- Prepare for shocks and stresses, recover from them and ensure the normal functioning of cities;

---Promote sharing and learning of practical experience through cross-domain performance evaluation and horizontal comparison.

The urban hazard typology (see Appendix A) can help cities identify the potential risks they face and provide guidance for cities facing similar risks.

The indicators in this document can be used to track and monitor resilience through the development of urban resilience strategies or the application of urban management systems such as GB/T 40759.

These indicators are built around the areas corresponding to the different industries and services provided by the city.

You can refer to the mapping of indicators to risk management processes (see Appendix B), the mapping of indicators to disaster management processes (see Appendix C), the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (see Appendix B), and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (see Appendix C).

The SDGs and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (see Appendix D) and the indicators are mapped to the GB/T 40759 areas and objectives (see Appendix E) to apply.

This document follows the principles set out in GB/T 40759 and other strategic frameworks and can be used in conjunction with them.

This document will support global agreements on sustainability and resilience for all cities. Existing agreements include but are not limited to the Sendai Risk Framework, the New Urban Agenda, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement.

Cities that apply this document can calculate urban resilience indicators according to the definitions and methods listed in the document and evaluate their compliance.

The document does not set target values for the indicators, so the calculation results of the indicators do not reflect the levels in these aspects.

Some indicators may be beyond the control of cities themselves, but the indicators themselves are important for making comparisons of resilience levels.

Sustainable urban and community development Resilient cities indicators

1 Scope

This document specifies the urban resilience indicator system and the calculation method of the indicators.

This document is applicable to cities and communities of all sizes and locations.

This document follows the principles set out in GB/T 40759 and other strategic frameworks and can be used in conjunction with them.

2 Normative references

The contents of the following documents constitute the essential clauses of this document through normative references in this document.

For referenced documents without a date, only the version corresponding to that date applies to this document; for referenced documents without a date, the latest version (including all amendments) applies to this document.

GB/T 4754 National Economic Industry Classification GB/T 36749 Indicators of sustainable urban development, urban services and quality of life GB/T 40759 Sustainable development management system requirements and use guide for sustainable development of cities and communities

3 Terms and definitions

The terms and definitions defined in GB/T 36749 and GB/T 40759 and the following apply to this document.

Resilience

The city's ability to adapt to a complex and changing environment.

Note 1.The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) believes that resilience is the ability of a system and its components to respond to a hazardous event in a timely and effective manner.

The ability to anticipate, absorb, adapt to or recover from their impacts, including by ensuring that their basic structure and functions are maintained, restored or improved.

Note 2.Resilience is the ability of an organization to resist the impact of an event, or to recover to acceptable performance within an acceptable time after being affected by an event.

Level of ability.

Note 3 to entry. Resilience is the ability of a system to maintain its function and structure in the face of internal and external changes, and to degrade gracefully when necessary.

[Source. GB/T 23694-2013, 4.8.1.7, modified] 3.2 Resilient City Cities that can cope with shocks and stresses and recover quickly.

Note 1.Resilient cities can maintain and restore their basic structures and functions in a sustainable manner, and resist, respond and adapt in a timely and effective manner through risk management practices.

Resilient cities encourage stakeholders, especially residents at risk of disasters, to Reduce the risks posed by natural and man-made disasters through joint participation; improve preparedness and resilience to disasters, shocks and other unforeseen long-term the ability to withstand stress.

Note 2.Despite dangers, shocks and stresses, resilient cities are able to develop sustainably, continue to learn, improve and build back better after disasters.

Vulnerability

The sensitivity of individuals, households, businesses, assets or systems in a city to the impacts of hazards.