Understanding Risk 2020: Are infrastructure disaster risk models still fit for purpose?
Are infrastructure risk models still fit for purpose? RS Deputy Director Juliet Mian joined Understanding Risk 2020 to explore that question.
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Considering the importance of upstream actions for resilience
Dr Juliet Mian was a speaker and panellist on Emerging Stronger: Upstream Actions for Environmental, Climate Change and Disaster Resilience in Transport Infrastructure, at this this year’s Asia-Pacific Transport Forum, taking place as a Virtual Meeting from 24-28 August 2020.
“Resilience resonates with people… we know we are vulnerable”
Course Director of Cambridge’s Construction Engineering Masters, Dr Kristen MacAskill, tells us what’s on her mind, lessons learned from the resilience round-tables, and the challenges for resilience as a discipline.
“The opposite of resilience is failure/collapse” – resilience round-table hosted by ASPI
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s round-table featured Jo da Silva, and Dr Paul Barnes, interviewed here about ASPI’s work on risk and resilience.
Debating cascading and interconnected risk at UCL-IRDR
The Resilience Shift’s Savina Carluccio participated in the UCL IRDR 9th Annual Conference that brought together a wide range of experts for a day of thought-provoking discussions.
Earth Ex Day
Join us and play the EarthEx resilience exercise. At the Resilience shift, one of our key ways of working is to engage with pioneers in the field. The EIS Council has made some truly transformative steps towards raising awareness of black sky hazards, and creating tools, products and guidance, aimed at influencing collaborations between stakeholders to create […]
Whose responsibility is it to strengthen the resilience of critical infrastructure?
Rob Turk gives an Australian perspective on the role of government and on a new piece of federal legislation that raises many questions around the role of legislation, and the government more broadly, in strengthening critical infrastructure resilience.
Language: let’s talk some more
The language of resilience may be getting in the way of efforts to work together. How can we identify a shared vision and common language.
