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.
A new initiative has been launched by a group of like-minded businesses to help lessen the impact of natural disasters in New Zealand and enable better recovery when they strike.
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.
Extreme space weather has long been seen as a threat to electrical grids in high-latitude regions of the northern and southern hemispheres, but a new study finds that smaller scale space weather events are amplified near the equator, putting power grids at risk in regions previously considered safe.
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.
To mark the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, a new risk bulletin from Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) – ‘Hurricane Katrina 10: Catastrophe Management And Global Windstorm Peril Review’ – analyzes windstorm risks and losses and examines the lessons learned
A survey by PwC has looked at the future of power supply in the region, assessing the risks as well as utility company plans to secure future supplies.
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