Engineering X launches Pandemic Preparedness programme
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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
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Covid-19 related risks and challenges for European power and gas utilities
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Disaster Versus Crisis?
The internet’s resilience to mass homeworking
(Re)emphasizing Urban Infrastructure Resilience via Scoping Review and Content Analysis
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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Why it’s time for cities to get real about resilience
Bridging the humanitarian needs with long-term resilience in Dominica
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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Integrating modern technology across projects in Cambodia
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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Choking On Our Harvest: Threats Loom Over Global Food Trade
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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Critical infrastructure resilience: A Nordic model in the making?
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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Amazon Isn’t Paying Its Electric Bills. You Might Be
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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China’s Built a Road So Smart It Will Be Able to Charge Your Car
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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Choking On Our Harvest:Threats Loom Over Global Food Trade
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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Resilience Alliance
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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Asking the questions that unlock innovation
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.
Cities to Participate in Procuring Resilience Workshop
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.
9 bad things you do (but know you shouldn’t) in research communications
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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Uniquely Australian problem: cockatoos vs infrastructure
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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CliFi – A new way to talk about climate change
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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5 ways to fix South Asia’s Water Crisis
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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Zurich sheds light on catastrophic events
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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Better Water Decisions in the Age of Deep Uncertainty
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.
Canada Releases Climate Lens for Infrastructure Funding Assessments
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.
