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To address all the complexities based on their effectiveness and extensive networks with
involved, the master plan has the level of investment. academia and both the public
three main elements: The third is a prioritized and private sectors largely
The first is a baseline review of action plan that encompasses assisted in developing effective
the shocks and stresses faced actual projects, awareness strategies in a complex
by the City (Resilience Demand) raising, capability building and landscape.
and its existing capacity to the establishment of initial Further, K&A amassed an
mitigate those threats and governance bodies that can in-depth knowledge of the
respond if a major incident take the project forward. Lebanese planning and
occurs (Resilience Capacity). This project was certainly legislative system, assisted
The second is a linked set challenging, given unavailable in raising awareness, and
of strategies setting out data and the lack of a unified pinpointed the significance of
short, medium and long term platform to collect information urban resilience in a developing
actions to strengthen the from. Nonetheless, K&A context. This, in turn, gave rise
City’s resilience vis-à-vis the excelled at problem solving to innovative ways to collect
community, environment, urban and suggested multiple viable and corroborate information
form, infrastructure, economy, strategies to get around these from literature and stakeholders
governance, adaptive capacity, issues. in addition to implementing a
and emergency response. The Effective stakeholder's multidisciplinary approach to
strategies will be evaluated engagement and K&A's viewing the City.
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