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Loading...This course at Northeastern University’s College of Engineering aims to teach students to identify solutions for critical infrastructure resilience in the face of climate change, globalisation and urbanisation challenges.
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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...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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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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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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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...The City Finance Lab (CFL) is Europe’s first dedicated platform supporting the development of innovative financial solutions that increase investment in resilient, low-carbon and sustainable urban projects. It aims to unlock at least EUR 500 million in additional investment for climate action over the next 5 years.
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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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.
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.
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...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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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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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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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...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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Loading...The aim of the Adaptation Support Tool is to assist users in developing climate change adaptation strategies and plans by providing guidance, links to relevant sources and dedicated tools. The European Climate Adaptation Platform Climate-ADAPT is a partnership between the European Commission and the European Environment Agency.
Loading...These guidelines establish how the City can increase its resiliency to
unavoidable climate change through design as an integral part of the project planning
process for agencies and their designers.
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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.
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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Loading...The report documents resilience efforts and how they are organized, understood, and implemented within transportation agencies core functions and services. Core functions and services include planning, engineering, construction, maintenance, operations, and administration. The information gathered details the motivations behind the policies that promote highway resilience, definitions of risk and resilience, and the relationship between these two fields. The report also explores how agencies are incorporating resilience practices through project development, policy, and design.
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Loading...The 4TU Centre for Resilience Engineering is a federation of four universities of technology in the Netherlands jointly committed to strengthening and pooling technical knowledge.
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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.
Loading...Strategies for enhancing resilience in transportation infrastructure systems include redistributing available funding through a special funding vehicle, using resilience-based performance measures.
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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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Loading...The World Bank published guidance on ‘Transport Sector Recovery: Opportunities to Build Resilience’. Part of their Disaster Recovery Guidance Series. Restoring the transport sector after a disaster is essential to the overall recovery process in the aftermath of a disaster.
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Loading...We need to continually be looking to the future as well. KPMG’s Emerging Trends in Infrastructure 2018 report is one (excellent) example of the many horizon scanning publications that need to inform our work, to ensure that it is, and remains, relevant.
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