Three films to demystify resilience, funded by The Resilience Shift, developed in collaboration with the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.
A summary for urban policymakers, presenting the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessments in targeted summaries that can help inform action at the city scale.
Real-time learning from the Covid crisis was captured over 16 weeks of interviews with senior leaders, providing insights into what makes resilient leadership, and how to lead for resilience.
A resource for practitioners in search of clear, easy-to-navigate guidance on climate-resilient infrastructure, compiled from hundreds of leading resources, and organized by lifecycle phase.
A multi-stakeholder, whole-systems approach is needed for ports to become low carbon resilient gateways to growth, as a meeting point of critical infrastructure systems, cities and services.
The Resilience Realized Awards recognise projects around the world at the cutting edge of resilience.
Download the step by step methodology to help cities collaboratively build resilience to local water challenges, mapped with the OurWater online governance tool, as used by cities around the world.
The Resilience Shift CEO Seth Schultz's presented the final lecture in the ICE’s 2022 Brunel Lecture series.
Loading...Applications are open for Optigram 2021: A data visualisation competition from the National University of Singapore’s Lloyd’s Register Foundation Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk. The competition is aimed young people (18-35) to develop creative ways to communicate data and information on risk effectively.
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Loading...New ICE research paper co-authored by Resilience Shift Technical Director, Juliet Mian, provide insight into how organisations are changing the basis of planning and investment decisions to enhance resilience.
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Loading...One year on from launching a new Climate Change Analysis Tool (CCAT), US Telecomms firm, AT&T announce further expansion of climate resilience and impact modelling in collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory (US).
The first years of CCAT’s work underscores vulnerability to climate change is not evenly distributed. Instead, underserved communities tend to face the greatest dangers while having the least embedded resilience to cope with disasters.
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Loading...The Infrastructure Client Group and Institution of Civil Engineers are looking into the impacts of Covid-19 on infrastructure and what role the sector is likely to have in helping society recover from the pandemic.
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Loading...C40 has provided a curated collection of media and resources on topics relevant to mayoral teams and departments that are C40 touch-points: waste, food, buildings, transportation, public engagement, and many more.
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Loading...How do we build better cities after the coronavirus crisis? The World Bank’s Sameh Wahba joins Azeem Azhar to discuss how the World Bank partners with technologists to help cities on the frontline of the pandemic, and how the dynamism of urban density can be harnessed to build the livable and inclusive cities of the future.
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Loading...This paper reviews the impact of COVID-19 on socioeconomic systems, discusses the notion of resilience, and provides specifc recommendations on both integrating resilience analytics for recovery from the current crisis as well as on building resilient infrastructure to address future systemic challenges.
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Loading...This paper sets out UNDRR’s recommendations, lessons learned and highlights opportunities to build infrastructure resilience.
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Loading...This blog discusses how the coronavirus will most certainly offer new resilience opportunities for innovators as the PPP market recalibrates.
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Loading...This article explores the impact of Covid-19 on supply chains and argues that companies should plan for interruptions by mapping suppliers and buyers. They should also diversify their supply chain to mitigate any future disruptions.
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Loading...New Engineering X Pandemic Preparedness programme launched to support global innovation and knowledge sharing.
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Loading...Call to Action from the Planetary Emergency Partnership: Emerging from the Planetary Emergency and partnering between People and Nature
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Loading...Future Earth has published a rapid foresight survey on Covid-19 exploring global risks and opportunities for recovery and transformation. With this survey, Future Earth, the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and Environment, and other partners seek to spark critical reflection on the challenges, but also the opportunities, that this global crisis presents, and to contribute to what will soon emerge as a global conversation on where we go from here.
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Loading...New OECD outlook on the global economy shared at G20 Summit – on the OECD’s website hub for Tackling coronavirus (Covid-19). Contributing to a global effort.
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Loading...A report by the US Department of Homeland Security. Suggests various strategies and approaches, and leaves it to the discretion of each jurisdiction to determine which approach or combination of approaches, if any, might be suited to their specific needs, operating environments, and risk landscapes.
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Loading...This report distils and illuminates the latest evidence from across the breadth of the Global Resilience
Partnership (GRP) to answer that question and inform future resilience programming at a time when it
is more important than ever.
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Loading...The Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) has undertaken a mapping of global and regional
initiatives from funds, networks, alliances, partnerships, organisations to programmes and
projects that either have a focus on resilience or cover some aspect of resilience.
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Loading...It's a long and beautiful read and finishes with the words "befriend uncertainty". Understanding complexity is a visual feast in this 2017 cartoon.
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Loading...The Pathways Generator helps you explore policy pathways in an interactive way, for example, together with stakeholders. Pathways are sequences (or portfolios) of actions over time to achieve a set of pre-defined objectives under uncertain and changing future conditions.
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Loading...This report assesses the use of managed adaptive flood risk planning in Scotland in the context of increasing and uncertain risks relating to climate change. Drawing on Scottish case study evidence, it presents recommendations for how guidance can be changed to facilitate more adaptive approaches in cases where this can be valuable.
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Loading...Policy perspective on educating engineers for resilience. Recognising that critical infrastructures are more than just technology. To increase their resilience, engineers should view them as socio-technical systems.
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Loading...The 15th edition of the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report identifies and explores in depth the growing risk challenges facing individuals, businesses and global society in the years ahead
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Loading...This scoping report presents the National Infrastructure Commission’s initial work on resilience. It suggests that more could be done to ensure the UK’s economic infrastructure is resilient, both now and in future. As well as the absence of a holistic view of resilience, it finds there are also a number of cross cutting resilience challenges which require significant changes to the current approach to address them.
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Loading...The concept of resilience has become prominent and now dominates thinking about risk management, notably including environmental hazard management. This paper examines the diverse origins of resilience and its conceptual roots within the hazard and disaster management field and then questions whether or not resilience is simply a re-branding of the concept of mitigation which has previously been widely employed in the hazard and disaster management field.
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Loading...In partnership with the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), the World Bank has, over the past decade, emerged as a global leader in assessing exposure to hazards and addressing disaster risks. Drawing on our accumulated experience and expertise, these virtually facilitated and self-paced courses are designed to enhance your knowledge as a resilience and disaster risk management professional.
Loading...Swiss Re and the London School of Economics have developed this primer for insurance markets and economies. Developing innovative insurance resilience indices for three core areas of risk: natural catstrophe, mortality and healthcare.
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Loading...A repository of useful guides, reports and best practices for improving resilience.
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Loading...In this paper, The business case for resilience, Arcadis explore this topic within the context of cities, industries, utilities and mobility, and ground the discussion in concrete examples of work that they have done.
The paper also examines the important topics of digital and financial resilience.
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Loading...The articles in this issue of ‘The Bridge’ present examples of engineering innovation to develop resilient infrastructure.
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Loading...This paper proposes a critical infrastructure interdependency analysis framework and illustrates its application in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria. This framework leverages system-level and asset-level infrastructure analyses to illustrate potential cascading and escalating failures, as well as to identify and prioritise potential resilience strategies. The Puerto Rico case study also elucidates the elements and required conditions to operationalise critical infrastructure interdependency analysis in all phases of risk and emergency management, and in the broader perspective of long-term adaptation planning and sustainable development.
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