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...A roadmap and guide from the World Bank’s Water Global Practise for resilient water infrastructure. The cost reduction value add associated with spending on resilience is estimated to be $4.2 trillion over the useful life of new infrastructure.
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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...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
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Loading...This paper explores the benefits and the costs of strengthening infrastructure assets to make them more resilient, reducing the repair costs and infrastructure disruptions caused by natural hazards. Strengthening infrastructure assets in low- and middle-income countries would increase investment needs in power, transport, and water and sanitation by between $11 billion and $65 billion a year, i.e. 3 percent of baseline infrastructure investment needs. The uncertainty pertaining to the costs and benefits of infrastructure resilience makes it difficult to provide a single estimate for the benefit-cost ratio of strengthening exposed infrastructure assets. To manage this uncertainty, this paper explores the benefit-cost ratio in 3,000 scenarios, combining uncertainties in all parameters of the analysis.
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Loading...Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for maintaining an active and healthy life. Given the growing risks associated with increased demands for natural resources, social transition, political instability, trade barriers, climate change, and economic inequality, building a resilient, secure global food system is essential. This article reviews current research in this area, critically summarizes the varied efforts that are underway, and candidly questions our ability to address evolving threats to agri-food supply chains.
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Loading...As the impacts of climate change are felt more forcefully around the globe, decision makers are asking, with increasing urgency, how they can make their communities and businesses more resilient. One obvious place to start is infrastructure. To address this, the Hoover Institution convened a yearlong collaboration with leading experts and practitioners in development banks, government agencies, universities, private firms, non-governmental organizations, and professional associations. It drew on diverse perspectives to the challenges of resilience, including physical and social science, engineering, policy, finance, and education.
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Loading...To implement sustainable investment decisions it is essential that the world can deliver social and natural benefits alongside economic and financial value. This Arup paper challenges conventional thinking and shows that through a Total Value approach we can close the value gap and drive change at scale.
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Loading...This paper includes the findings of MMI Thornton Tomasetti’s investigation into the measurement of resilience within infrastructure using systems thinking and focussed on value delivery.
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Loading...Meaningful policy measures that address rising CO2 from international aviation and shipping remain inadequate. This article in Climate Policy journal quantifies 2 ºC pathways for these sectors, highlighting the need for mitigation measures to be urgently accelerated.
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Loading...What do we mean when we speak in terms of “resilience?” Why has “resilience” become the hot buzzword, and why is it useful for political leaders who want to avoid saying the words “climate change?” This paper is published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists journal.
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Loading...This paper by RE.bound Program, and re:focus partners llc, offers a path forward for governments at all levels – cities, states, federal agencies, and international aid programs – to align public-sector disaster risk reduction measures with private insurance using Resilience Bonds.
Loading...In this paper it deals with economic motivations for implementing resilience assessment and management in damaged communities and large scale complex systems and the latest understood principles of resilience that drive a decision framework. Furthermore it requires an examination of risk-based policymaking and investment decisions by the science of resilience.
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