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Resilience: A risk management approach
Posted on: 1 February 2012
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This Background Note explores the concept of ‘resilience’ in relation to framing current thinking about sustainable futures and investigates whether a common definition and understanding can be reached and whether resilience can be translated into a practical set of tools and approaches.
Resilience: A risk management approach
Posted on: 1 February 2012
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This Background Note explores the concept of ‘resilience’ in relation to framing current thinking about sustainable futures and investigates whether a common definition and understanding can be reached and whether resilience can be translated into a practical set of tools and approaches.
Impact 2011: Examining a year of catastrophes through the lens of resiliency
Posted on: 6 January 2012
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This report investigates disaster resilience by examining the patterns in the major disasters in 2011. The report, commissioned by the Federal Alliance for Safe Homes (FLASH), in order to better understand how adaptation of the built environment can increase resilience to shocks such as earthquakes or hurricanes. The study starts with a review of the major environmental hazards of 2011, serving as a stark reminder of the scale of the adaptation challenge.
Building resilience: resource security and the role of the circular economy. London, 12 December 2011
Posted on: 12 December 2011
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This Green Alliance conference on resource security and economic resilience, held in association with the CBI, is now available to watch online. It features presentations from Vince Cable, secretary of state for business, innovation and skills, EU environment commissioner, Janez Potočnik, and leading businesses.
Water cities in transition: Inspiring solutions in integrating, urban design and water challenges. Amsterdam, 31 October – 1 November 2011
Posted on: 30 November 2011
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The conference aimed to serve as a platform where urban planners and waer managers could focus on the latest developments in water city transitions, coping with climate change-related challenges, linking them with socio-economic issues and inspiring integrated solutions in urban design and practice. A large number of presentations are available online.
Keeping the country running: Natural hazards and infrastructure
Posted on: 26 October 2011
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The Infrastructure and Corporate Resilience Programme, under the auspices of the Cabinet Office, has published a guide which aims to support infrastructure owners and operators, emergency responders, industry groups, regulators, and government departments, to work together to improve the resilience of critical infrastructure and essential services. The Guide provides advice on: identifying and assessing risks from natural hazards; standards of resilience; business continuity and corporate governance; guidance for economic regulated sectors; information sharing; and understanding dependencies.
Managing risks and increasing resilience
Posted on: 26 October 2011
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This is the Mayor of London’s climate change adaptation strategy for London. It details his strategic approach to managing the climate risks we face now and in the future in order to maintain London as one of the best big cities in the world.
Low carbon cities, resilience and social justice. Birmingham, 17 October 2011
Posted on: 17 October 2011
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This workshop was aimed at providing a space for presenting and discussing recent research on the relationships between low carbon urbanism, resilience, vulnerability and social justice. We invited a number of key researchers in the field in order to establish which thematic areas have received insufficient attention until now, and how we might go about in covering them. A particular emphasis was placed on the development of aReader on Low Carbon and Resilient Cities as well as future research funding proposals in this domain. A report and presentations are available online.
Review of international research on structural robustness and disproportionate collapse
Posted on: 7 October 2011
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This research report concludes an extensive international literature review into robustness and disproportionate collapse in structures undertaken on behalf of the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure. The first element was an appraisal of the different building risk classification systems in use for different purposes around the world, appraising the merits and disadvantages of each. The second element of the study was a review of the basic design methods which could be used, namely prescriptive methods, alternative load path analysis, risk-based approaches, and key element-type local hardening or specific local resistance methods. Thirdly, consideration was given to the application of these approaches in the different codes, good practice guidance and other design material in use around the world, and conclusions drawn on deficiencies either in the design guidance or the underlying knowledge. Fourthly, specific consideration was given to the behaviour of different structural materials and the state of knowledge about each, including a brief discussion of the approaches currently in use for each material and the mechanisms of resistance available to the designer when designing for resistance against collapse. The fifth and final element of the study comprised a brief appraisal of the potential for learning from other areas of engineering such as nuclear, seismic, structural fire and offshore engineering. Conclusions from all five elements of the study led to 28 recommendations being made.
Reconstruction plan for Haiti
Posted on: 6 October 2011
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Over the last 18 months, Trans-City architecture and urbanism has developed a comprehensive plan for the reconstruction of Jacmel, a town in Haiti, based upon the concept of satellite cities located at the edge of the existing, earthquake-ravaged city centre (a concept developed in accordance with the universal design principals of the Housing Reconstruction Framework of the Haitian Government). The concept includes an urban masterplan, and a proposal for prefabricated houses, in which the building shell is industrially manufactured in Austria, and finished by local hand workers. In line with the content of the project, the architecture does not attempt to be spectacular. Rather, it is the holistic integration of the many levels of an urban system that makes this project interesting.
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