Engineering a Safer Future: Safety at Work
This report reflects on how Covid-19 has disrupted existing practice around safety at work, how the sector has adapted, and what lessons the current disruption holds for our shared…
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Engineering a Safer Future: Summary
The report discusses opportunities for change brought by Covid-19 pandemic, examining infrastructure, safety, education, public understanding of risk, and disruption's impact.
Engineering a Safer Future: Data
This report reflects on how Covid-19 has disrupted existing practice around data access, management and use, how practices have adapted, and what lessons the current disruption holds for our…
Fostering resilience-oriented thinking in engineering practice
The paper is a result of roundtable discussions on the resilience of critical infrastructure systems. It is one of a range of initiatives to help advance the application of…
The Case for Value Chain Resilience
By injecting resilience concepts and methods into mainstream value chain analysis we can build a more robust method for determining the resilience of networks and systems. This paper argues…
The economic case for greening the global recovery
Launched in September 2020, the report by the Coalition for Urban Transitions, supported by The Resilience Shift, highlights the economic case for greening the global recovery through cities to…
Resilient Leadership: Learning from crisis – an experiment in reflective learning during the Covid-19 pandemic
This report focuses on the role of leadership for resilience – leadership that promotes and enables complex systems (in this case corporations and large cities) to function and thrive…
Resilient Leadership: Learning from crisis (Pre-publication extract)
During a crisis, what does it mean to be resilient? As part of our work to learn from crisis, twelve senior leaders from corporations and cities across the globe…
Resilience and Complex Interdependencies within and between Global Food Supply Networks and Transportation Infrastructure
This article featured in Cereal Foods World explores the relationship between food supply chain resilience and critical infrastructure.
The Resilience Shift: Securing our future through resilient infrastructure
This paper outlines the work of The Resilience Shift to help ensure the safety and continuity of the critical infrastructure and services that make our lives possible.
Building Resilience through Water: Water Security Journal
This Special Issue examines the thesis that the challenges inherent in managing water offers a window into the broader, complex challenge of designing and managing for the resilience of…
Human dimensions of urban water resilience: Perspectives from Cape Town, Kingston upon Hull, Mexico City and Miami
Based on analysis of interview responses and focus group discussions, we propose key characteristics of human, societal and governance capacity necessary for urban water resilience.
Resilience Shift round-table: The role of professional groups and institutions in building resilience
This paper captures highlighs from a roundtable meeting for professional groups and institutions associated with development of the built environment.
Cape Town Water Resilience Profile (CWRA)
The Water Resilience Profiles for Cape Town and Greater Miami provide an opportunity to see how the CWRA brings stakeholders together to develop a comprehensive assessment of water management…
Greater Miami Water Resilience Profile (CWRA)
The Water Resilience Profiles for Cape Town and Greater Miami provide an opportunity to see how the CWRA brings stakeholders together to develop a comprehensive assessment of water management…
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…
Using the City Water Resilience Approach – a step by step methodology
The City Water Resilience Approach takes city water stakeholders through the key stages from system mapping, resilience assessment to option identification and prioritisation, whilst recognising all of the complexities…
The role of legislation in critical infrastructure resilience
This report explores the impact of a legislative policy instrument used in the state of Victoria, Australia, and relating to the resilience of critical infrastructure.
Resilience Shift Primer: Electric Utilities. An industry guide to enhancing resilience
This primer introduces the elementary principles of resilience relevant to the electric utilities sector and is part of a body of knowledge intended to help those responsible for the…