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.
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.
A team of European researchers has developed a model to simulate the impact of tsunamis generated by earthquakes and applied it to the Eastern Mediterranean. The results show how tsunami waves could hit and inundate coastal areas in southern Italy and Greece.
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
A new resilience strategy for the City of New Orleans was launched at a ceremony on 25th August. 'Resilient New Orleans' provides a concrete, strategic roadmap for the City of New Orleans to build urban resilience.
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