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14 DOSSIER URBAN RESILIENCE The worldwide contribution to urban resilience WASHINGTON DC (UNITED STATES): • Modelling flooding in the city for the present and the future. • Developing a long-term approach to flood risk management. MIAMI (UNITED STATES): • Developing climate- adaptive scenarios to reduce flood risks. • Analyses to determine which important infra- structure systems (elec- tricity, communications, etc.) can fail, or be at risk, during floods. THE HAGUE (NETHERLANDS): • Quantifying the climate challenge - tackling excess water, water shortages and heat - for part of the centre (Central Innovation District). • Exploring measures that can contribute to climate resilience, the living environment and the improve- ment of social networks in the city. COLOMBO (SRI LANKA): • Reducing flood risks by modelling the rivers and the urban water system. • Designing and calculating inter­ ventions to reduce risks. CAPE TOWN (SOUTH AFRICA): • Tackling drought problems with sus­ tainable solutions. For example by extracting groundwater from more and other sources, improving and greening waterways in the city. GUAYAQUIL: (ECUADOR): • Making the city resilient to problems with water and flooding. • Drawing up a flexible integrated plan to solve current problems and to be prepared for the impact of climate change.