The second edition of the Disasters Avoided Newsletter is live. You can access it here.
I am delighted to announce that a new Newsletter has commenced - the Disasters Avoided Newsletter.
You can read edition #1 here. This first edition is an introduction to our work, containing a summary of some of the work we are undertaking, links to case studies and interviews with people about different aspects of avoiding disasters.
You can read edition #1 here. This first edition is an introduction to our work, containing a summary of some of the work we are undertaking, links to case studies and interviews with people about different aspects of avoiding disasters.
I am delighted to announce the launch of a new website, disastersavoided.com. In this website, myself and my colleagues Ilan Kelman and Ana Prados are compiling case studies to describe how disasters have been, are being and need to be avoided through a symphony of action. We are also adding supporting information in the shape of interviews, papers, articles and links to Newsletter editions...
I was delighted to be invited by the Municipality of Bordeaux in France to take part in their resilience week ( la semaine de la résilience) in mid-October 2023.
We held a very interesting in-person round table discussion with citizens about how disasters can be avoided.
The municipality of Bordeaux is pursuing some excellent resilience work, which I will be profiling in due course...
We held a very interesting in-person round table discussion with citizens about how disasters can be avoided.
The municipality of Bordeaux is pursuing some excellent resilience work, which I will be profiling in due course...
I was delighted to be a Presenter on a webinar held on 18 July 2023 led by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in partnership with the United Nations Office of Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), which discussed the question: ‘Can disasters be avoided?’
We reviewed approaches being taken to prevent hazards from turning into disasters, including examples and how innovation is helping countries, cities and communities prevent adverse fallouts from hazard events.
You can access the webinar and download all presentations here.
We reviewed approaches being taken to prevent hazards from turning into disasters, including examples and how innovation is helping countries, cities and communities prevent adverse fallouts from hazard events.
You can access the webinar and download all presentations here.
My involvement in infrastructure continues, including editing the February 2023 Newsletter of the IRM Infrastructure Group, which you can access here.
I continue to serve on the committee of the IRM Infrastructure Group, and part of my role is to coordinate the Group Newsletter.
The December 2022 edition, which covers a wide variety of infrastructure-related topics, is available here...
The December 2022 edition, which covers a wide variety of infrastructure-related topics, is available here...
I am delighted to be the co-investigator for a two-year project funded by NASA, called Disasters Avoided
. It is a project I am working on in conjunction with Professor Ilan Kelmanof UCL(London).
The purpose and objective of our work is to inspire action from governments, funders, businesses, the non-profit sector, and the public by compiling, verifying and sharing compelling good-news examples of potential disasters which could have happened, but did not, because action was proactively taken before it was too late. We hope to inspire the use of Earth observations and connecting Earth systems to act cooperatively, at a global and a local level, to avoid disasters.
NASA is of course known globally as an organisation that helps the human race to move forward with space exploration.
They also have an Earth Science team. The Disasters program part of NASA's Earth Science Applied Sciences Programuses Earth-observing data and applied research to improve the prediction of, preparation for, response to and recovery from hazards and disasters around the world.
More information will be made available about this project during 2023, and 2024 (including a dedicated website for the project).
The purpose and objective of our work is to inspire action from governments, funders, businesses, the non-profit sector, and the public by compiling, verifying and sharing compelling good-news examples of potential disasters which could have happened, but did not, because action was proactively taken before it was too late. We hope to inspire the use of Earth observations and connecting Earth systems to act cooperatively, at a global and a local level, to avoid disasters.
NASA is of course known globally as an organisation that helps the human race to move forward with space exploration.
They also have an Earth Science team. The Disasters program part of NASA's Earth Science Applied Sciences Programuses Earth-observing data and applied research to improve the prediction of, preparation for, response to and recovery from hazards and disasters around the world.
More information will be made available about this project during 2023, and 2024 (including a dedicated website for the project).
While we cannot predict the future, the judicious use of scenario analysis and scenario planning can help organisations navigate through challenging times.
I was delighted to write a piece about the uses and benefits of scenario analysis for the Institute of Risk Management Enterprise Risk magazine, Winter 2022 edition, which you can read here...
I was delighted to write a piece about the uses and benefits of scenario analysis for the Institute of Risk Management Enterprise Risk magazine, Winter 2022 edition, which you can read here...
It was an honour and a pleasure to take part in a fascinated Urban Talk on 30 November 2022, organised by the UNDP Europe and Central Asia team.
My piece focused on various aspects of urban resilience and how systems thinking can help us to understand, unpack and design initiatives, programmes and projects to improve the resilience of cities and towns.
We also had extremely interesting presentations from Professor Bharat Dahiya, Director of the Research Center for Sustainable Development and Innovation at the School of Global Studies, Thammasat University, on strengthening disaster risk governance, plus Armen Chilingaryan, Programme Manager, and Elen Sahradyan, Public Policy Innovation Lead, at UNDP Armenia on implementing a more sustainable and fairer economic model, and Ljubica Teofilovska, Project Manager, at UNDP North Macedonia, on better urban future planning.
For more information about this online event, please contact me. A link to the UNDP Europe and Central Asia Urban Talks series summaries is here.
My thanks go to the UNDP team for organising an excellent session - especially to Rajeev Issarfor hosting the event, ably supported by Darini Vedarattiname, Cansu Demir and Svetla Baeva.
My piece focused on various aspects of urban resilience and how systems thinking can help us to understand, unpack and design initiatives, programmes and projects to improve the resilience of cities and towns.
We also had extremely interesting presentations from Professor Bharat Dahiya, Director of the Research Center for Sustainable Development and Innovation at the School of Global Studies, Thammasat University, on strengthening disaster risk governance, plus Armen Chilingaryan, Programme Manager, and Elen Sahradyan, Public Policy Innovation Lead, at UNDP Armenia on implementing a more sustainable and fairer economic model, and Ljubica Teofilovska, Project Manager, at UNDP North Macedonia, on better urban future planning.
For more information about this online event, please contact me. A link to the UNDP Europe and Central Asia Urban Talks series summaries is here.
My thanks go to the UNDP team for organising an excellent session - especially to Rajeev Issarfor hosting the event, ably supported by Darini Vedarattiname, Cansu Demir and Svetla Baeva.