Interaction of emerging threats could see correlated impacts: in other words the probability that they could act together to produce more than the sum of their parts.
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced the expansion of the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office’s (DNDO) Securing the Cities program to Houston and Chicago.
How can societies better predict or prevent catastrophes such as wildfires and earthquakes? How can communities be helped to recover more quickly from disasters? To help find answers to these and other questions about natural hazards, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded 11 new grants
The worst nuclear disaster since the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown never should have happened, according to a new study.
The Food Standards Agency has issued a call for researchers interested in studying food system resilience. Entitled ‘Resilience of the UK food system in a global context,’ the research programme will fund high quality research projects
Droughts in various countries and multiple landfalling storms in Asia-Pacific were the theme of the month.
DRI International has launched a scheme to designate appropriate organizations as a ‘Hub of Resilience’ and / or a ‘Resilient Enterprise’. Both the awards are official ‘standard of excellence’ designations
ENISA has published its Annual Incidents report, which gives an aggregated analysis of the incidents causing severe communications outages in 2014.
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking members for a new Community Resilience Panel.
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