Exploring cyclone risk in vulnerable settlements: investigating community focussed landscape interventions.

Cyclones have long posed significant risk to cities, especially in vulnerable coastal areas with substandard housing and inadequate infrastructure. Speaking to the Pathway theme Cities, Environment, and Liveability, this project explores how the intensity and frequency of tropical storm events increases with warming ocean temperatures increasingly affect low-income

settlements, This project addresses the need for solutions to make such settlements more resilient in the face of these disasters. In light of often scarce resources in developing contexts, low-cost but effective solutions should be prioritised. It will explore experimental solutions, e.g. artificial

reefs to minimise storm surge, solutions which involve recovery of what has been lost including degraded coastal habitats, including mangroves and marshes, and recovery of indigenous building practices evolved over centuries of living with storms. For any solution to be successful in the long-term, it needs to be widely accepted by the community and developed

in tandem with efforts to improve the liveability of those affected. Clearly speaking to the Pathway theme, this project explores how innovation, recovery, and community capacity building can help tackle environmental challenges affecting large parts of the tropical world, seeking to both directly help specific communities and create transferable and scalable

development models.