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Melbourne's first resilience strategy
08 June 2016
Melbourne’s first resilience strategy (Resilient Melbourne Strategy) was endorsed by the City of Melbourne’s Future Melbourne Committee on 17 May 2016. It is the culmination of work by people from across sectors, council boundaries and community groups, coming together to consider a shared challenge: what can we do to protect and improve the lives of Melburnians, now and in the future?
Developed with the support of 100 Resilient Cities – a project pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation – the strategy sets out a series of distinct, yet connected, actions that will help make Melbourne a viable, sustainable, liveable and prosperous city, today and long into the future.
The strategy’s four action areas are:
- Adapt – reduce our exposure to future shocks and stresses
- Survive – withstand disruptions and bounce back better than before
- Thrive – significantly improve people’s quality of life
- Embed – build resilience thinking into our institutions and ways of working
