BS 67000 provides practical guidance and tools for increasing city resilience. It is intended for use by all stakeholders who contribute to city resilience: citizens, organizations, communities, government, and business.
BS 67000 is also relevant to towns or a wider area, such as that covered by a local enterprise partnership (LEP).
BS 67000 builds on the growing portfolio of guidance on this evolving subject from initiatives such as the UNISDR ten essentials and the 100 Resilient Cities program (pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation), and lessons learned from cities.
BS 67000 on city resilience guide applies to:
Cities are the social and spatial framework for most people’s lives. This concentration of people, infrastructure, businesses, and institutions creates a focal point for risks and opportunities. When shocks occur, they disrupt the continuity of services that most people take for granted. Severe shock events tend to be uneven in their impact, hitting the most disadvantaged and vulnerable hardest, imposing human and economic cost, hampering growth, and curbing opportunities.
BS 67000 sets an approach for its users to plan and design a city that possesses the best solution for everything that’s needed, based on the growing portfolio of guidance on the same subject that is expanding and changing daily from initiatives such as the UNISDR ten essentials and the 100 Resilient Cities.
BS 67000 also defines key concepts and terms and sets out a general framework that assists its users in the prioritization, integration, and development of local strategies and plans, to increase a city’s resilience.
BS 67000 intended to support: