Why is the strategy important?

Shocks are sudden events that disrupt a city. Shocks include natural hazards such as heatwaves and floods, international crises such as economic crisis or disease pandemic, and critical infrastructure failures. When planning for city resilience, it is important to consider the cumulative effects from multiple shock events. Resilient Sydney undertook a comprehensive resilience risk assessment alongside community engagement to identify the priority shocks and stresses facing Sydney. The detailed outcomes are available in the synthesis report and community engagement reports.

Collaboration for implementation

It will take a coordinated effort to achieve the resilience goals identified in this strategy. Collaboration across all levels of government, national, state and local and partnerships with business and communities will be necessary to achieve most of the goals.

Stresses are ongoing challenges. They include unaffordable housing and cost of living pressures that weaken the ability of the city and communities to respond to and recover from shock events. It is important to consider how stresses increase the vulnerability of people, places and economies to shock events. To inform the strategy, Resilient Sydney identified top stresses through community engagement and a comprehensive resilience risk assessment.