29 research outputs found
A Demand-Driven Approach to Development, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Climate Adaptation
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Proposed Agenda for Meeting of the executive Committee International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives
No full textProposed Agenda for Meeting of the Executive CommitteeInternational Council for Local Environmental InitiativesJanuary 11-13, 1990London, United Kingdom01-ICLEI-Planning Document #102- ICLEI-Planning Document - Proposed Agenda & Schedule03- ICLEI-Planning Document - Strategic Plan04- ICLEI-Planning Document - Minutes of September 1990 Meetings05- ICLEI-Planning Document - Financial Status06- ICLEI-Planning Document - Proposed Charter Revisions07- ICLEI-Planning Document - Proposed Articles of Incorporation08- ICLEI-Planning Document - Proposed By-laws09- ICLEI-Planning Document - Proposed Membership Dues Structure10- ICLEI-Planning Document - Proposed budget & Cash Flows11- ICLEI-Planning Document – Fiscal Sponsorship12- ICLEI-Planning Document – City Host Proposals13- ICLEI-Planning Document – Officers/Secretary Genera
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Fighting city hall to become global
No full textCambridge, Massachusetts. Like a lot of folks, Jeb Brugmann wants city officials out of city hall. Unlike most, he'd like to see them visiting foreign governments, setting up trade agreements, sister city projects and cultural exchange programs."Over a thousand U.S. cities are deeply involved in world affairs issues," Brugmann says. And while some of those activities-divestment from firms doing business in South Africa and the shipment of development aid to Central American villages--might seem distinctly partisan, Brugmann insists there's a payoff. "Getting city governments involved in international affairs in general can mean big dividends for both local governments and international businesses, in general.
Pressure-Point Strategy: Leverages for Urban Systemic Transformation
No full textSustainability can be understood as a specific kind of problem framing that emphasizes the interconnectedness of different problems and scales and calls for new forms of problem handling that are much more process-oriented, reflexive and iterative in nature. Closely related with the notion of reflexive governance, we propose such an alternative strategy for societal problem handling and change management in the urban context. The strategy starts from stress states in the urban system(s) and uses their initial momentum to encourage systemic change through intraventions—rather than interventions—at selected pressure points. This paper highlights the potential to evolve what has often been an intuitive practice, led by community or elected leaders with unique wisdom about functions and pressure points in their urban system, into a more accessible strategy for shaping socio-ecological transformation in urban practice
Financing the resilient city
No full textFinancing the resilient city / Jeb Brugmann, Environment and Urbanization, vol. 24, n° 1, April 2012, pp. 215-232, originally published online 15 March 2012 DOI: 10.1177/0956247812437130 http://eau.sagepub.com/content/24/1/215.full.pdf+html Abstract : This paper presents a strategy for scaling climate change adaptation within urban areas. The strategy specifically focuses on the requirements for mobilizing large amounts of capital for adaptation and other urban risk reduction above and beyon..
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World faces turmoil: economist
No full textLOW-LYING countries like Bangladesh could disappear under rising oceans within 100 years, a Perth conference was told yesterday. That was one of several chilling warning delivered not by a radical “greenie” but by a speaker at the International Union of Local Authorities World Congress. Mr. Jeb Brugmann, an economist and field programs director of the Centre for Innovative Diplomacy in Massachusetts, said rises in ocean levels caused by the Greenhouse Effect could send a human flood of refugees through India. "This could begin extremely volatile mass migrations in the Indian sub-continent:' he said.Such migrations would increase as people were forced to leave expanding areas of desert such as the Sahara and Central Asia and areas of extreme drought such as parts of South America
POURQUOI DES VOLONTAIRES A L'HOPITAL?
No full textAlthough the physical comfort of the patient is often sufficiently guaranteed in modern health care, the same does not hold for his psychological comfort. Volunteers organised in a welfare service can provide a host of useful services during the various stages of the patient's hospital stay. The author describes experiences gained with the welfare service of the Brugmann University Hospital (Brussels). The tasks of the service during patient admission, ward stay and discharge, are described (follow up task for the welfare service). The utilisation of a well motivated voluntary service, by definition, will represent a step forward in realising a more humane hospital environment.SCOPUS: NotDefined.jinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe
<b>Jeb Brugmann</b>, <i>Welcome to the Urban Revolution: How Cities are Changing the World</i> (HarperCollins Publishers), 2009
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