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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...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...Drinking water and wastewater resilience. America’s Water Infrastructure Act including 2018 Route to Resilience. Comprehensive resource on water resilience for the USA.
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Loading...A report by the US Department of Homeland Security. Suggests various strategies and approaches, and leaves it to the discretion of each jurisdiction to determine which approach or combination of approaches, if any, might be suited to their specific needs, operating environments, and risk landscapes.
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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...Recording of webinar: Utility actions to sustain operations during Covid-19. This webinar is designed to share practices that utilities have implemented to prepare and respond to COVID-19. This includes a discussion of workforce issues, facility access and supply chain conditions.
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Loading...The Oxford Covid-19 Impact Monitor is a new online tool from Oxford researchers. Data from mobile phones is being used to understand and predict the impact of the UK’s Covid-19 social distancing measures on population movements nationwide
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Loading...Governments are taking a wide range of measures in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. This tool aims to track and compare policy responses around the world, rigorously and consistently.
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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...PIARC’s response to Covid-19 presents knowledge and references that PIARC shares to support its members and professionals in the roads and transport sector.
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Loading...Webinar recording from TRB Transportation & Covid-19 – Practices from other disease outbreaks
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Loading...The National League of Cities and Bloomberg Philanthropies have teamed up to collect and share actions taken by local leaders in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Loading...This Speaker Series is jointly organized by the Global Resilient Cities Network and the World Bank City Resilience Program.
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Loading...This report distils and illuminates the latest evidence from across the breadth of the Global Resilience
Partnership (GRP) to answer that question and inform future resilience programming at a time when it
is more important than ever.
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Loading...The Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) has undertaken a mapping of global and regional
initiatives from funds, networks, alliances, partnerships, organisations to programmes and
projects that either have a focus on resilience or cover some aspect of resilience.
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Loading...Paper presents a data-driven, regional model that considers a wider array of climate variables to evaluate the impact of climate change on the coupled water and electricity demand nexus in the Midwestern USA. Results indicate that the climate-sensitive portions of summer electricity and water use are expected to increase in the region by 19% and 7%, respectively. Finally, the regional-scale model is leveraged to make city-level projections, indicating a 10–20% (2–5%) increase in electricity (water) use across the analyzed cities due to a warming climate.
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Loading...It's a long and beautiful read and finishes with the words "befriend uncertainty". Understanding complexity is a visual feast in this 2017 cartoon.
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Loading...The Decision Tree Framework described in this book provides resource-limited project planners and program managers with a cost-effective and effort-efficient, scientifically defensible, repeatable, and clear method for demonstrating the robustness of a project to climate change.
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Loading...This collection of case studies demonstrates examples of successful implementation of bottom-up approaches (BUA) across the globe. Each case utilizes components of BUA within the planning, decision making, and/or implementation processes.
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Loading...The Pathways Generator helps you explore policy pathways in an interactive way, for example, together with stakeholders. Pathways are sequences (or portfolios) of actions over time to achieve a set of pre-defined objectives under uncertain and changing future conditions.
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Loading...This report assesses the use of managed adaptive flood risk planning in Scotland in the context of increasing and uncertain risks relating to climate change. Drawing on Scottish case study evidence, it presents recommendations for how guidance can be changed to facilitate more adaptive approaches in cases where this can be valuable.
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Loading...Enhancing the Resilience of the Nation’s Electricity System focuses on identifying, developing, and implementing strategies to increase the power system’s resilience in the face of events that can cause large-area, long-duration outages: blackouts that extend over multiple service areas and last several days or longer.
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Loading...Policy perspective on educating engineers for resilience. Recognising that critical infrastructures are more than just technology. To increase their resilience, engineers should view them as socio-technical systems.
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