“My concern is how resilient we are as a society to withstand a major shock”
Toby Harris of the Electric Infrastructure Security Council (EISC) explains how caring about our future means preparing for the unexpected.
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Filling our shelves – supply chain workshops kick off
Following a pilot workshop in Manchester, United Kingdom, the first of a series of Global Supply Chain workshops took place at the end of February in New York.
From tools and supply chains to earthquakes, drought and black skies
February’s activities were wide ranging but inter-connected: ‘It’s essential to focus not only on the resilience of the technical system, but also on the people who are an integral part of the system.’
Exploring the issues faced when using resilience tools and approaches
Earlier this month in London, we held the third in a series of workshops focused on tools and approaches to explore ways and means of implementing critical infrastructure resilience.
Planning for drought to stop the taps running dry
In this guest blog, Chris Hughes, drought specialist, discusses some of the ways cities might better prepare for drought and resilience to water scarcity.
Reflecting on resilience together with Christchurch
The fourth of the Technical Advisory Group’s round-table series for the Resilience Shift took place in Christchurch New Zealand.
EIS Council partnership uses Earth Ex to build resilience
Earth Ex sector exercises will enable critical infrastructure players to improve their planning to black sky events, adopting systems thinking, cross-sector approaches to build multi-sector resilience.
Resilience Shift round-table: city scale modelling and tools
The third of the Resilience Shift round-table series took place in January 2019 at CITRIS at UC Berkeley, California, and focused on city-scale modelling.
Critical infrastructure resilience matters – January update
As well as the news from Davos, the focus for the Resilience Shift in January has been on further collaboration and on our key tenet to learn by doing.
Resilience standards in the public and private sectors
Resilience First held a London briefing event in the last week of January to explore the role of standards in driving awareness and behaviours in resilience.
Share your supply chain experience
Are you a retail and food logistics provider or customer, freight forwarder or transport operator, or a supporting organisation/association or specialist research institutions in this sector?
The critical nature of global ports and their future resilience
We interview Clon Ulrick on why ports matter to all of us and the challenges he sees for the sector. How can we make this critical infrastructure resilient to future shocks and stresses both expected and unexpected?
New partnership explores resilience in practice with business communities
We have agreed a partnership to support Resilience First, a London-based not-for-profit initiative that aims to improve urban resilience for business communities.