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.
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 Global Supply Chain Resiliency Council was formed earlier this year to bring together supply chain risk management and resiliency practitioners with luminaries and thought leaders
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.
Researchers at Princeton and MIT have used computer models to show that severe tropical cyclones could hit a number of coastal cities worldwide that are widely seen as unthreatened by such powerful storms.
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