Community resilience

Early warning systems play a crucial role in disaster response, minimising losses and preserving lives. Despite progress made in the past decade, less than 50% of the world's most vulnerable regions have access to such systems. Resilience First's current project aims to analyse data from the World Risk Poll to determine the factors that affect people's confidence in disaster-related information sources and their level of preparedness.

Last week the UN Secretary-General said that "Climate breakdown has begun...surging temperatures demand a surge in action". As resilience experts, we are no strangers to adversity. However, the events of this past summer in the Global North have been truly shocking, with the homes, jobs and critical infrastructure of citizens lives severely affected. Dr Jamie Shea CMG breaks down what resilience professionals in both government and the private sector need to be doing about it.

Investing in resilient infrastructure can bring long-term benefits to society, including economic growth and improved wellbeing, as well as helping to achieve climate adaptation and net zero targets. However, challenges such as government policy priorities, regulatory pressures, and opposition from local communities can lead to delays, cost overruns, and cancellation of necessary investments. Resilience First was delighted to chair a discussion with National Infrastructure Commission on ways to incentivise and encourage the required action to accelerate the resilience of our national infrastructure.

As humans we have a perhaps unique ability to imagine far into the future and hence appreciate risk. Since the seventeenth century we have developed a lot of science to keep things standing. Generalising things are generally safer and more reliable, in other words less risky. However, something appears to be going paradoxically wrong.

The UK is entering a new era of resilience planning with the recently published UK Government Resilience Framework, how will the policy that controls development in the UK assist us in making our communities and the businesses within more resilient?

In February 2023 Resilience First, with PA Consulting, published a new report – Whole of Society Resilience: Steps to Success. The report focuses on action that aligns with the UK Government's Resilience Framework ambitions to strengthen and underpin systems that provide national resilience to the threats we now face. Find out what’s inside and why your action matters.

A new report on steps needed to achieve whole of society resilience has been produced by Resilience First in collaboration with PA Consulting. 'Whole of society reslience: Steps to success' report focuses on activity that aligns with the UK Government’s Resilience Framework ambitions, which can be developed and actioned over the coming year.

Supply chains have recently been facing increasing pressure from multiple stressors, including the global Covid-19 pandemic (and Brexit in the UK), and in 2023 these strains do not seem to be slowing down. In this article, we delve into the top supply chain challenges, and what businesses are doing to address them, remain resilient, and not only survive, but thrive in 2023 and beyond.