A review of resilient practice based upon flood vulnerability in New Taipei City, Taiwan

Resilient cities have received considerable attention in the public policy field in attempts to comply with global climate change commitments. In fact, resilient city is the key for the climate governance of the urban population of 6.3 billion people in 2050. The purpose of building resilient city is to decrease both the exposure and vulnerability. Due to the exposure might not be intervene artificially, this paper applies geographic information system (GIS) to explore the spatial distribution of vulnerability. This paper then collects the practice of building resilience in New Taipei City. Afterwards, the comparative analysis is conducted to further propose the improvements for New Taipei City government for building resilient city. The results show that although New Taipei City government actively promotes resiliency in various sectors, particular townships are facing different challenging such as rapid urbanization and lacking of emergent facilities. In fact, the spatial in equilibrium of certain critical facilities might result in serious impacts during disasters. As a whole, the results of the spatial distribution of flood vulnerability could be referred as the future improvements in resilience practice.