Provides learnings from Christchurch's response to the 2011 earthquake. For example, findings showed that the community should be regarded as a system in its own right. The importance of data availability for allowing the area to build back better after crisis was a particular limitation. It is important to obtain the perspectives of those that have lived with and gone through this crisis. Some lessons learned are similar to those of Cape Town after its water crisis.
Emerging insights into resilient leadership
As part of our mission to understand what resilience means in practice, we are sharing the emerging insights into resilient leadership, distilled from the first eight weeks of interviews with our twelve participants.
Insights into resilient leadership
A new initiative by The Resilience Shift, in partnership with the Global Resilient Cities Network, is shining the light on resilient leadership, capturing the reflections of 12 globally diverse senior leaders faced with the challenges of the coronavirus crisis.
Disaster v crisis? How the nature of the Covid-19 crisis affects our response.
How should we respond to a disaster or crisis such as Covid-19, the Australian bushfires or the floods in Indonesia? Jo da Silva, Resilience Shift Board member, reflects on what we mean by disaster and crisis, and how our understanding of the type of event should inform our response.
Findings from EARTH EX III 2019 – working together to secure our world
We shared the lessons learned from a global resilience exercise based on a wide-scale power outage – a ‘black sky’ event. What can we learn from simulating a catastrophe and how does it help us to build cross-sector resilience?
Learning from Cape Town’s water crisis
Cities around the world can learn from a series of filmed interviews with those involved in the response to Day Zero – what happens when the water runs out?
Impactful learning from black sky exercises – what really matters in a crisis?
Critical infrastructure resilience was put to the test using the Earth Ex simulated disaster event, exploring how interdependencies work in practice.
At a time when the resilience of ports for food and commodities supply is most important, this primer identifies opportunities for building resilience in this sector.
Resilience of global food supply chains
25 June, 2019
Having a clear understanding of the governance of the food supply chain and having transparent decision making is important during crisis.
Use of public-private collaboration for supply chain resilience.
Intermodal (e.g. rail, air, road) integration of transport infrastructure and understanding the resilience of this during a time of crisis.
A pivotal moment for the transport sector – and lessons for resilience
Roads and transport are critical for maintaining the movement of essential goods, supplies, services and workers, and ensuring integrity of the supply chain. We share emerging issues from the World Road Association (PIARC)’s series of COVID-19 webinars that have enabled their global community to share real-time pandemic impacts and responses.
“Resilience, diversification, and innovation are needed to safely feed the world”
“There is a very tense situation currently with a huge number of people dying every day from starvation, and 70% of our planet not yet exploited for food. Food safety is all about resilience”. Vincent Doumeizel from Lloyd’s Register Foundation, talks about education, innovation and the potential of seaweed.
From field to fork – global food supply and its dependence on resilient infrastructure
The global supply of food is an incredibly complex system, involving multiple actors and a diverse value chain from production through to consumption. Every part of the chain is dependent on infrastructure systems. We share six principles for enhancing the resilience of food transportation systems from our contribution to Cereal Foods World.
Podcast interview shines the light on infrastructure resilience
Our Technical Director, Dr Juliet Mian was interviewed by CIHT for their series of CIHT podcasts on infrastructure resilience. This episode is relevant to today’s global events as the world looks to respond to, and be resilient to, Covid 19, the global pandemic.
Planning for uncertainty – the resilience challenges for supply chains
Contributing to the research on global supply chains, this guest blog on the initial UK-focused research highlights global pinch points, the impact of politics, and how data analytics and sight upstream are critical to resilience
Provides information on common operational measures from around the world to support the resilience of the potable water system.
City Water Resilience Approach
14 March, 2019
The City Water Resilience Approach can help to develop a detailed plan and an ability to prioritise key actions in cities. Tools are provided to help this process (e.g. City Water Resilience Framework and OurWater).
Identification and consideration of additional threats to the electricity system that, during a time of crisis, could lead to further systemic issues. Adaptation examples are provided, and highlights importance of having emergency agreements in place.
Importance of the value chain in the energy sector that is vital to ensure electricity is provided to the end user. Sharing lessons learnt for increasing resilience of the system.
Support on preparedness – having incident response and contingency plans in pace. Availability of diversionary routes.
Lessons learned – e.g. use of technology for monitoring use of alternative routes. Existing and new relationships and communication channels with single point of contact within each organisation.
Undertaking vulnerability and risks analyses of networks, with examples provided in primer.
Importance of systems thinking – linking to food supply chain resilience, role in intermodal transport, and the operation of other infrastructure sectors.
The future of transport resilience
In this guest blog, we invite Nicole Lee and Clement Ho to consider how urban transportation worldwide is changed by the Covid-19 pandemic, what new approaches are being developed, and what it could mean for the future of transport resilience.
5 must-do’s on urban resilience in a time of Covid
Dr Bruce Chong, specialist in smart and resilient city planning and implementation, shares his reflections on urban resilience under the COVID-19 pandemic in this perspective from East Asia.
Podcast interview shines the light on infrastructure resilience
Our Technical Director, Dr Juliet Mian was interviewed by CIHT for their series of CIHT podcasts on infrastructure resilience. This episode is relevant to today’s global events as the world looks to respond to, and be resilient to, Covid 19, the global pandemic.
Getting utilities together across sectors highlights interdependencies
The Resilience Shift in partnership with Resilience First brought together Ofgem, National Grid, Thames Water, and UK Power Networks at a joint event on building resilience across utilities.
From planning to action for city water resilience
The Water Resilience Profiles for the City of Cape Town and Greater Miami and the Beaches are now published providing an opportunity to see how they have used the City Water Resilience Approach to build the resilience of their water systems.
Urban water resilience community of practice announced
“Call to Action” announced – get involved in a community of practice on urban water resilience in partnership with Resilience Shift, Global Commission on Adaptation, Arup, SIWI, IWA, 100RC, AGWA, One Water Academy and Deltares.
The internet’s resilience to mass homeworking
Disaster Versus Crisis?
Guide to Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources Protection at the State, Regional, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Level
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.
[ Report ]
Risk-Based Policy Optimization for Critical Infrastructure Resilience against a Pandemic Influenza Outbreak
Loading...Risk-Based Policy Optimization for Critical Infrastructure Resilience against a Pandemic Influenza Outbreak (2018) in the ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems
[ Paper ]
COVID-19 – PIARC’s response
Loading...PIARC’s response to Covid-19 presents knowledge and references that PIARC shares to support its members and professionals in the roads and transport sector.
[ Website ]
Open Letter to Global Leaders – A Healthy Planet for Healthy People
Loading...Call to Action from the Planetary Emergency Partnership: Emerging from the Planetary Emergency and partnering between People and Nature
[ Op Ed ]
50 days with coronavirus: the story so far for UK utilities
Future Earth Survey
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.
[ Survey ]
Centre for Cities podcast about coronavirus and global city resilience
Energy Networks Association coronavirus news
Corona-crisis hits nuclear sector
Loading...Covid19 spread shows up vulnerability at heart of nuclear programmes, with resilience of critical national infrastructures undermined.
[ Blog ]
Speakers Series on how cities are responding to COVID-19
Loading...This Speaker Series is jointly organized by the Global Resilient Cities Network and the World Bank City Resilience Program.
[ Webinar ]
COVID-19 tracker from the World Economic Forum
ISRM Coronavirus Fast Learning Project
Thinking ahead: For a sustainable recovery from COVID-19 (Coronavirus)
Water system preparedness and best practices for pandemic influenza
Loading...Journal of the AWWA: Water system preparedness and best practices for pandemic influenza (01 Jan 2009) According to public health experts and the medical community, an influenza pandemic could occur at any time. The authors conducted a literature review, interviews, and a survey of Ohio water systems to assess how prepared U.S. water systems were for a pandemic flu outbreak and found varying preparedness levels.
[ Article ]
Oxford Covid-19 Impact Monitor
Loading...The Oxford Covid-19 Impact Monitor is a new online tool from Oxford researchers. Data from mobile phones is being used to understand and predict the impact of the UK’s Covid-19 social distancing measures on population movements nationwide
[ Tool ]
Building transportation supply chain resilience after a pandemic
Loading...Building transportation supply chain resilience after a pandemic – collated resources of TRB. The transportation industry is relying on the knowledge gained from past freight supply chain disruptions and documented by TRB to successfully handle COVID-19 and its aftermath.
[ Web Page ]
Oxford University launches world’s first COVID-19 government response tracker
Loading...The new tracker records and compares governmental measures in response to the coronavirus pandemic worldwide.
[ Article ]
Coronavirus Government Response Tracker
Loading...Governments are taking a wide range of measures in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. This tool aims to track and compare policy responses around the world, rigorously and consistently.
[ Tool ]
Transport Research Board Webinar
Loading...Webinar recording from TRB Transportation & Covid-19 – Practices from other disease outbreaks
[ Webinar ]
COVID-19: Local Action Tracker
Loading...The National League of Cities and Bloomberg Philanthropies have teamed up to collect and share actions taken by local leaders in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
[ Platform ]
Webcast: Utility Actions to Sustain Operations During COVID-19
Loading...Recording of webinar: Utility actions to sustain operations during Covid-19. This webinar is designed to share practices that utilities have implemented to prepare and respond to COVID-19. This includes a discussion of workforce issues, facility access and supply chain conditions.
[ Webinar ]
What a Coronavirus Recovery Could Look Like
Loading...Urban resilience expert Michael Berkowitz of the Resilient Cities Catalyst shares ideas about how U.S. cities can come back stronger from the social and economic disruption of coronavirus.
[ Op Ed ]
Drinking Water and Wastewater Resilience
Loading...Drinking water and wastewater resilience. America’s Water Infrastructure Act including 2018 Route to Resilience. Comprehensive resource on water resilience for the USA.
[ Platform ]
New OECD outlook on the global economy
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.
[ Article ]
