...in thinking

Resilience Engineered

Three films to demystify resilience, funded by The Resilience Shift, developed in collaboration with the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Summary for Urban Policymakers

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.

Resilient Leadership

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.

...in practice

Infrastructure Pathways

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.

Resilience4Ports

Diagram of a working port

 

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.

RR- HIDDEN

Resilience Realized

The Resilience Realized Awards recognise projects around the world at the cutting edge of resilience.

City Water Resilience Approach

CWI Wheel diagram

 

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.


A Visual Guide

The Resilience Shift

Securing our future through resilient infrastructure

The world is full of disruptive forces

cityscape

Urbanisation

By 2050 68% of the world’s population will live in cities. That represents 1.5 million people moving into cities every week over the coming 30 years.

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Digital Transformation

175ZB The global datasphere is predicted to reach 175 zettabytes by 2025 (One zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes).

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cityscape
climate

Climate Change

Some 470 million people in 45cities are expected to face extremely high water stress by 2030, up from 255 million today

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globalisation

Globalisation

An equivalent to 45% of the seafreight capacity between Europeand Asia and the transpacific region was cancelled within a few weeks of the Covid-19 crisis.

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complex systems

Increasing Systems complexity

Existing infrastructure systems are increasingly complex and interdependent, spreading across national borders and continents, and more and more reliant on sophisticated digital technology.

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we are creating a movement to bridge the infrastructure gap

Inspiring and empowering people

  • Policy Makers
  • Investors
  • Operators
  • Engineers
  • End users

Motivating people

Outputs

  • Thought leadership publications
  • Coalitions and partnerships
  • Guidance, standards and tools

Empowering Practice

Outputs

  • Case studies and value stories

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  • Events
  • Education and capacity building

Inspiring action

How we work

  • Working across the whole value chain
  • Sharing learning
  • Transferring knowledge between sectors
  • Influencing policy
  • Demonstrating the value of resilience
  • Shaping practice

creating a safe, resilient and sustainable future for all

governance

Overcoming fragmented governance

Encouraging collaboration across different stakeholders in a system and moving away from siloed decision making

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deep uncertainty

Managing deep uncertainty

Not only mitigating known risks, butbeing able to respond to, and recoverfrom, those risks we cannot predict or avoid in our uncertain and complex world

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outcome-led approaches

Focusing on outcome-led approaches

Thinking about what the system does,not what it is will create the shift inpractice that is needed for betterinfrastructure decisions.

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technology

Adopting technology which enhances resilience

When using digital technology ininfrastructure systems, it is essential toconsider its broadest possible impactsto ensure that new vulnerabilities are notcreated and resilience compromised.

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whole systems thinking

Whole systems thinking

Looking beyond the boundaries of any system and considering interconnectivity and interdependencies

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