What is BS 67000 — Guide about?
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.
Who is BS 67000 — Guide for?
BS 67000 on city resilience guide applies to:
- Communities and institutions that can contribute to the overall development
- Government authorities by which the city is directed
- Business persons and systems in the city
Why should you use BS 67000 — Guide?
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:
- Engage and motivate city, community and business leaders to address resilience and provide the necessary conditions for success
- Improve a city’s understanding of resilience challenges over the short, medium and long term
- Support and build deeper, broader and more integrated capacity in the city
- Prioritize and strengthen investment decisions
