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...Biden’s Secretary of Transportation nominee who will be responsible for updating the US’s transport infrastructure gave a preview of what his ideas might look.
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Loading...This article introduces the concept of environmental sustainability in ports and explains how to incorporate environmental indicators into modelling and decision making.
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Loading...Japanese shipbuilding giant Mitsubishi has announced that it will build and test a carbon-capture system for ships, aimed at significantly reducing the emissions of the maritime sector.
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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...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...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.
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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.
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Loading...The new tracker records and compares governmental measures in response to the coronavirus pandemic worldwide.
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Loading...This paper asks three guiding research questions: What does urban infrastructure resilience really mean? What are the most common research topics connected to urban infrastructure resilience? How can humanity further improve urban infrastructure resilience from a sustainable development planning perspective?
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Loading...UN Development Programme’s thoughts on bridging humanitarian needs with long-term resilience in Dominica looking back to Category 5 Hurricane Maria which struck Dominica in 2017 wreaking unimaginable disaster.
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Loading...For People in Need (PIN) in Cambodia, technology is an essential tool for building resilience. Through the use of innovative and accessible technologies, we prioritise effectiveness and efficiency, optimise resources and increase the impact, reach and pace of our development interventions.
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Loading...The ability of global trade to feed the world is one of the great success stories of the past generation. Shippers and exporters have become better and better at getting affordable food from places of surplus to regions of scarcity. But the planet is at rising risk of choking on its good fortune.
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Loading...This journal article talks about the strategies and conceptual development of some European Nordic Countries to resilience for critical infrastructure. Then it highlights how their approach has a better starting point that most of the EU.
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Loading...Amazon Web Services, the company’s cloud computing business, is its fastest-growing and most profitable division, but it comes with a lot of upfront infrastructure costs and ongoing expenses, the biggest of which is electricity.
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Loading...The road to China’s autonomous-driving future is paved with solar panels, mapping sensors and electric-battery rechargers as the nation tests an “intelligent highway” that could speed the transformation of the global transportation industry.
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Loading...Alan Bjerga, Agricultural Correspondent for Bloomberg has been writing about how the ability of global trade to feed the world is one of the great success stories of the past generation. But the planet is at rising risk of choking on its good fortune.
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Loading...This article talks about Building Benchmark as tool from using to understand the current state of resilience and to identify potential actions that can be taken to improve resilience.
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Loading...Great questions have a catalytic quality — they dissolve barriers to creative thinking and channel the pursuit of solutions into new, accelerated pathways. The MIT Leadership Center’s Hal Gregersen says brainstorming in “question bursts” is the best way for innovative leaders and problem solvers to find solutions.
Loading...Bringing together officials from 7 small- and mid-size cities and private sector leaders to explore how “big city” procurement tools can be adapted to work in smaller communities with the aim of jumpstarting progress towards upgrading legacy water infrastructure systems.
Loading...There is a lot of good advice out there on communicating research for policy. But what we often don’t talk about is the things that go against that advice, which….cough cough… if we’re honest, we all do. At least sometimes. For example…
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Loading...It’s not just NBN Co’s infrastructure that is being ravaged by cockatoos. The birds inflict damage on telecommunications infrastructure in what is a uniquely Australian problem costing the industry millions of dollars in damages every year.
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Loading...CliFi means “climate fiction” and refers to fictional books that bring climate change science to the reader. Cli-Fi can help us understand what future climate may be like or what current climate effects are. The authors get us to think about the ‘what if’s – and future Earths.
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Loading...Vanita Suneja of WaterAid reports on what is being done to prevent South Asia running out of underground water, and five key challenges to create a robust groundwater management regime.
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Loading...This article underlines how it is worthwhile and economically efficient to invest more money in prevention. A new study from Zurich Insurance Group reviews 12 of Zurich’s global Post-Event Review Capability (PERC) reports and highlights lessons learned.
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Loading...Deep uncertainty acknowledges a dynamic system where inputs — such as rainfall or economic growth or regulations — are changing or unknown. Deep uncertainty methods are not yet widespread among water utilities, but the ideas are gaining ground. Scenario planning allows utilities to ask questions that, in the past, would have been viewed as unusual.
Loading...This Climate Lens is a requirement of the Investing in Canada bilateral agreements signed between Infrastructure Canada and the provinces and territories. The assessment tool will require stakeholders to report on how proposed projects contributes to or reduce carbon pollution, and to consider climate change risks in the location, design, and planned operation of projects.
