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Testing the Proposed Municipality Resilience Index to Climate Change Shocks and Stresses in Mbale Municipality in Eastern Uganda

机译：在乌干达东部姆巴莱市测试拟议的城市抵御能力指数以应对气候变化冲击和压力

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Since climate change shocks and stresses cannot be fully prevented, building resilient urban areas is gaining more attention in the global community. By building resilience, the negative impacts of climate change shocks and stresses can be alleviated. Several indices have been developed to measure urban resilience. Yet, most of these indices focus more on objective methods which require robust bio-physical and socio-economic data sets which are generally lacking in many developing countries. To reduce this challenge, the use of subjective methods has recently been suggested. This study proposed and tested a Municipality Resilience Index (MRI) which employed a subjective method to assess the resilience of Mbale municipality in Eastern Uganda against climate change shocks and stresses. The proposed MRI includes 46 variables describing the physical, social, economic and institutional dimensions. The MRI can be applied in any municipality in developing countries facing climate related shocks and stresses and with limited survey data. The application of this index to Mbale municipality shows that the municipality has a low resilience index of 0.2. Similarly, most variables in the four dimensions of resilience reflected very low resilience scores with other divisions being more resilient than the others. Furthermore, the social dimension has the lowest score as compared to the physical, economic and institutional dimensions. The findings indicate a spatial variability in the contribution of the resilience dimensions within this small geographic confine. Moreover, the findings show the strengths and weaknesses in the different dimensions of the proposed MRI. This can act as a guide for policy and practitioners on which sectors to target in order to enhance the resilience of Mbale municipality.
机译：由于无法完全防止气候变化带来的冲击和压力，因此建设具有韧性的城市地区正在引起国际社会的更多关注。通过增强抵御能力，可以减轻气候变化冲击和压力的负面影响。已经开发了一些指数来衡量城市的弹性。然而，大多数这些指数更多地集中于客观的方法，这些方法需要健全的生物物理和社会经济数据集，而这在许多发展中国家通常是缺乏的。为了减少这一挑战，最近已建议使用主观方法。这项研究提出并测试了市政适应力指数（MRI），该指数采用一种主观方法来评估乌干达东部Mbale市政当局应对气候变化冲击和压力的适应力。拟议的MRI包括46个变量，描述了物理，社会，经济和体制方面。 MRI可以应用于发展中国家面临气候相关冲击和压力且调查数据有限的任何城市。该指数在姆巴莱市的应用表明，该市的弹性指数较低，为0.2。同样，弹性四个维度中的大多数变量反映的弹性得分非常低，其他部门的弹性得分则高于其他部门。此外，与物理，经济和制度维度相比，社会维度得分最低。研究结果表明，在这个小的地理范围内，回弹力维度的贡献存在空间差异。此外，研究结果显示了所提出的MRI在不同维度上的优势和劣势。这可以为政策和从业人员提供指导，以针对哪些部门为目标，以增强姆巴莱市的应变能力。

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