Climate risks and resilience

Dr Olivia Jensen, IPUR Lead Scientist (Environment and Climate) contributed an opinion piece to the Centre for Livable Cities’ playbook on “Building Community Resilience”. In the piece, titled “Empowering Communities to be Resilient with Information”, Dr Jensen speaks about communicating climate risks, the effectiveness of public risk management in Singapore and the resulting “caretaker effect” that has arisen.

The effect points to citizens having a high level of confidence in the government to take adequate action to protect Singapore from climate change, and therefore turn to the public authorities for guidance rather than taking action themselves.

This playbook documents research undertaken by the Centre for Liveable Cities to measure and strengthen social capital and community resilience through a co-creation journey. Read the full playbook here.