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Stanford – World Bank – EMI Workshop Creating an Enabling Environment for Investment in Urban Resilience Stanford University June 30, 2015 Organizer: Fouad Bendimerad, [email protected]; 408 768 8987 Location: Stanford, Yang & Yamazaki Energy & Environment (Y2E2) Building - Room 299 Guests: 14 leaders from private sector, government, and The World Bank (Social, Urban, and Disaster Risk Management teams) [See table at end for complete list] Goal: Focus on different approaches to resilient investments and interventions that can inform World Bank strategic engagements in the Middle East North Africa region. AGENDA 9:00 Guests arrive at Stanford – Welcome and Introductions 9:10 Opening Remarks – Context of Meeting and World Bank Goals Andrea Zanon, Resilience Regional Coordinator in Middle East and North Africa (MENA), The World Bank (WB) 9:15 Review of Agenda 9:20 Urban DRM Master Planning Process: WB-EMI Bangladesh Urban Resilience Project (B- URP), Fouad Bendimerad, Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative (EMI), Executive Director 9:45 Q&A - Discussion Theme/Topical presentations and discussion by Stanford PowerPoint presentation limited to no more than 8 slides 10:00 – 11:00 Topical Discussion No. 1: What have we learned on urban Resilience? Where investments are needed Greg Deierlein (Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford) – Research Agenda in Urban Resilience at Stanford – A view on the future and how Stanford can work with the World Bank Anne Kiremidjian (Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford) – Lifeline resilience. Building the Global Infrastructure 30 June World Bank Workshop on Urban Resilience Other faculty Structural Division CEE Dept.: Kincho Law, Eduardo Miranda, Jack Baker Discussion 30 min 11:00 – 11:30 Topic 2 How coalitions and partnerships are changing mindsets and building resilience in the San Francisco Bay Area – Will it work elsewhere? Mary Lou Zoback (Geophysics; School of Earth Sciences, Stanford) and Laurie Johnson (Laurie Johnson Consulting – VIA SKYPE); Stanford Urban Resilience Initiative Presentation 15 min – Discussion 15 min 11:30 – 12:30 Topic 3: Building with Nature – Increasing Resilience through Ecosystem-Based Solutions Panel Discussion (60 min) Jenny Suckale (Geophysics; School of Earth Sciences, Stanford) – Coastal Vegetation as DRM Molly Melius (Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford) – Incorporating Ecosystem Services in Resilience Planning in Coastal California Anne Siders (PhD Candidate; Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources) – Integrating Climate Change in Urban Planning Tracy Mandel (PhD Candidate, Civil and Environmental Engineering) – 12:30 – 13:00 Topic 4: Other topics Ram Rajagopal (Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford) – Drones and other new technologies for managing disasters and “building back better” Jenna Davis (Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford) – Economic Development and Water Infrastructure. David Lallemant (PhD Candidate; Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford) – Future risk projections + Nepal re-building efforts 13:00 -14:00 Lunch will be served in the room Opportunities for WB-Stanford Cooperation – Casual Discussion 2pm Guests leave Palo Alto 2 30 June World Bank Workshop on Urban Resilience World Bank Participants (as of 10 June) Participants: Title: Andrea Zanon Resilience Regional Coordinator in Middle East and North Africa (MENA), The World Bank (WB) Axel E. N. Baeumler Senior Infrastructure Economist, WB Ghadeer Ashram Disaster Risk Management Specialist, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) Mariana Felicio Social Development Specialist, WB Osama Hamad Senior Water Resources Management Specialist, WB Tafadzwa Irvine Dube Operations Analyst, GFDRR Yaprak Servi Disaster Risk Management Specialist, WB Nahida Sinno Private Sector Development Specialist, WB Alejandra Linares Operations Analyst, MENA DRM Team, WB Ziad Nakat Senior Transport Specialist, WB Sateh Chafic El-Arnaout Program Leader, Africa Country Director Groups, WB Edward Anderson Senior ICT Policy Specialist Ziane Said Special Advisor to the Secretary General of the Ministry of Interior, Moroccan Government Olivier Lavinal Special Assistance to the MENA Regional Vice Presidency, WB 3 30 June World Bank Workshop on Urban Resilience CREATING AN ENABLING ENVIRONMENT FOR INVESTMENT IN URBAN RESILIENCE Stanford Participants Fouad Bendimerad, Ph.D., P.E. Chairman and E.D., Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative (EMI) Consulting Engineer, San Mateo, CA Dr. Fouad Bendimerad is an active researcher, practitioner and educator with focused interest in megacities and urban risk assessment and management. He is also the initiator of EMI’s Cluster Cities Project, a global network of megacities officials, researchers, educators, professionals and advocates working together to reduce urban risk. He directed and completed several innovative urban DRR projects included urban resilience master plans for Metro Manila, Kathmandu, Amman, Pasig City, Quezon City, Mumbai, and Dhaka. His current interest revolve along the application of risk parameters in land use planning and the use of indicators in monitoring and evaluation of urban resilience. He has advised several international organizations (such as UN-ISDR, UNDP, UN-HABITAT, World Bank, ADB, and IDB), governments and global corporations. He was Principal Scientist and Vice President at RMS Inc. He lectured at several universities in the United States, Japan, Germany, and Turkey. He holds Master and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from Stanford University. Jenna Davis – Higgins-Magid Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Jennifer ("Jenna") Davis' research interests focus on the intersection of economic development and environmental management, with particular emphasis on cost- effective, sustainable water supply and sanitation (W&S) service delivery in developing countries. Current research projects focus on decentralized, private- sector delivery of W&S services in several countries; sustainable sanitation solutions for middle- and low-income urban areas; synergies between W&S planning and economic development strategies (e.g., agricultural productivity); and links between water, sanitation, and health. She has conducted fieldwork in more than a dozen countries, including most recently the Philippines, Mozambique, and Bolivia. 4 30 June World Bank Workshop on Urban Resilience Greg Deierlein – John A. Blume Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Deierlein's research focuses on improving limit states design of constructed facilities through the development and application of nonlinear structural analysis methods and performance-based design criteria. Recent projects include the development and application of strength and stiffness degrading models to simulate steel and reinforced concrete structures, seismic design and behavior of composite steel-concrete buildings, analysis of inelastic torsional-flexural instability of steel members, and a fracture mechanics investigation of seismically designed welded steel connections. Laurie Johnson – Principal and Founder, Laurie Johnson Consulting Laurie has over 25 years of experience in urban planning and disaster-related consulting, management and research. She has written extensively about land use and risk, disaster recovery and reconstruction, and the economics of catastrophes. She has studied many of the world’s major urban disasters, including the 2012 Hurricane Sandy, 2011 Tohoku Japan, 2010 and 2011 Christchurch NZ, 2010 Chile and 2008 China earthquakes and 2005 Hurricane Katrina. In 2006, she was a lead author of the recovery plan for the City of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina and coauthored the book, Clear as Mud: Planning for the Rebuilding of New Orleans, published by the American Planning Association in April 2010. She was formerly a Vice- President with Risk Management Solutions (RMS), working with global property and casualty insurers to manage their exposure to natural catastrophe risk, and a consulting planner with EQE International (now ABS Consulting) and Spangle Associates. Anne Kiremidjian – Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Kiremidjian's current research focuses on the design and implementation of wireless sensor networks for structural damage and health monitoring and the development of robust algorithms for structural damage diagnosis that can be embedded in wireless sensing units. She works on structural component and systems reliability methods; structural damage evaluation models; and regional damage, loss and casualty estimation methods utilizing geographic information and database management systems for portfolios of buildings or spatially distributed lifeline systems assessment with ground motion and structure correlations. 5 30 June World Bank Workshop on Urban Resilience David Lallemant – PhD Candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering David holds a bachelor’s degree from MIT (2007), master’s degree from UC. Berkeley and is pursuing a PhD from Stanford (anticipated 2015). His research is focused on understanding and quantifying the evolution of extreme risk in today’s growing cities. He works on modeling and communication of uncertainty as it relates to disaster risk, and the translation of resilience science into policy. He has an academic background in earthquake sciences and engineering, predictive modeling, machine learning, geostatistics and other tools that he uses to