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Podcast: Resilience Conversations – 10 years on from the Christchurch earthquake
Disaster v crisis? How the nature of the Covid-19 crisis affects our response.
How should we respond to a disaster or crisis such as Covid-19, the Australian bushfires or the floods in Indonesia? Jo da Silva, Resilience Shift Board member, reflects on what we mean by disaster and crisis, and how our understanding of the type of event should inform our response.
“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.
EARTH EX® III 2019: Lessons learned from a global resilience exercise
Following the success of the EARTH EX exercises held in London and Glasgow in 2019, the Resilience Shift is pleased to continue its partnership with the pioneers at the EIS Council by supporting its unique all-nation, all-sector online resilience exercise.
What can EARTH EX 2019 teach us about resilience?
The Resilience Shift will be sharing the early findings from EARTH EX in early December in a joint event with Resilience First and the Electric Infrastructure Security Council.
Test your resilience with EARTH EX – last chance to play before 31 October
Organisations and individuals are often unprepared for extended power failures. Now they can test these scenarios by participating in the EARTH EX black sky simulation. Xavi Aldea explains why this matters and how it can help to better prepare for resilience.
How to build resilience using black sky scenarios
“This year we put you in the decision-making seat – you have to choose what to do, and then follow that path. It’s going to be a very unique environment to work through.”
There’s nothing else like this in the world – John Heltzel interviewed on EARTH EX 2019
John Heltzel wants you – and your organisation – to join EARTH EX 2019 to test your resilience to a “black sky’ event. His experiences leading emergency response motivated him to help others become more prepared.
EARTH EX – put your resilience to the test in the global ‘black sky’ exercise – Register now
The all sector global resilience exercise EARTH EX starts on 21 August 2019, register now to prepare your organisation and your family for a “black sky’ event.
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.
Resilience Shift round-table: Christchurch: lessons for infrastructure resilience
The findings captured in this summary report provide a valuable perspective of the challenges and enablers to recovery of a city’s infrastructure networks following a catastrophe, and the implications for asset management.
EARTH EX® – London and Glasgow. Building resilience for global scale complex catastrophes
The Resilience Shift is pleased to have partnered with the pioneers at the Electric Infrastructure Security Council (EIS Council) to explore how a simulated catastrophic scenario encourages multi-sector stakeholders to think about their role within the whole system and challenge their response and recovery plans.
Reflecting on resilience together with Christchurch
The fourth of the Technical Advisory Group’s round-table series for the Resilience Shift took place in Christchurch New Zealand.
“Climate and water are intimately connected” at COP24
At COP24 ‘Shocks and stressors: water’s essential role in addressing climate change and disaster risk’ includes Resilience Shift water governance partners
Preparing for resilience to black sky hazards
EarthEx is an online interactive exercise aiming to provide organisations and individuals with a forum to discuss, develop and test organisational plans to improve resilience to Black Sky Hazards. Find out how we got on.