Tall stories: who are we building for?
Contributor: Jeremy Bugler Not long ago I was in Marseilles, looking at a housing block. That doesn’t sound as though I’d made the most exciting of choices in this notoriously sinful city, but then this […]
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We must create a resilient economy
Contributor: Chris Milton “It’s the economy, stupid!” Words which reverberate through modern society, like a long-hidden truth suddenly revealed. But what exactly is the economy… and more importantly, how can we create a resilient economy? The problem […]
A tale of two storms: fragility and resilience in the food supply of New York
Contributor: Thomas Forster In the wake of severe weather events that struck New York City and the region around it from tropical storm Irene in August 2011, and just now from hurricane Sandy in 2012, […]
Making our coastal cities resilient cannot wait
Contributors: Richard Florida & Sara Johnson Millions upon millions of people live in coastal cities — not just New York and the Boston-Washington corridor, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, and New Orleans, but also many […]
Utilities and us: toward an energy ‘ecosystem’
Contributor: Phil Carson As a nor’easter carrying snow further delayed the remaining work in restoring power to homes and businesses in the Northeast after Hurricane Sandy, and grid resiliency will remain a hot topic for […]
How to make the cloud more sustainable and resilient
Contributor: Eirikur Hrafnsson Simply moving to the cloud isn’t an environmental strategy. Now, says Eirikur Hrafnsson of GreenQloud, the conversation has shifted to how we can make the cloud more resilient. It’s no big secret […]
Can cities be both ‘sustainable’ and ‘resilient’?
Contributor: David Biello If you’ve successfully flushed a toilet recently, then you appreciate (at least subconsciously) the workings of a good sewer system. Waste disappears, no matter what time of day or night, or what […]
New York adopts a flexible resilience approach to address climate risk
Contributor: Will Bugler New York is one of the world’s great cities; towering sky-scrapers, major roads and large infrastructure developments abound in one of the most important global hubs for international business and commerce. In […]
The world’s shrinking food basket: why it is critical we increase crop diversity
Contributor: Michelle Kovacevic In the 1970’s a fungal blight outbreak ravaged cornfields across the United States, destroying 50 percent of the country’s maize crops and shaking the stock market as the most economically devastating field […]
Understanding resilience: implications for the water sector
Contributor: Dr Heather Smith Policy rhetoric around water resources and infrastructure increasingly emphasises the need to promote ‘resilience’ within water and wastewater systems. This trend is particularly evident in countries such as the UK – […]