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Extensive Resource Guide on Resilience

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A significant contribution to the topic by a team of authors from many countries. See: IRGC Resource Guide on Resilience

The resource guide available on this page is a collection of authored pieces that review existing concepts, approaches and illustrations or case-studies for comparing, contrasting and integrating risk and resilience, and for developing resilience. Most papers focus also on the idea of measuring resilience. Although this idea may not sound right to some, there are on-going efforts for evaluating resilience, developing resilience indicators, and measuring the effectiveness of actions taken to build resilience. These efforts are worth considering because indicators and metrics for resilience are needed to trigger interest and investment from decision-makers.

This guide is designed to help scientists and practitioners working on risk governance and resilience evaluation. It stresses the importance of including resilience building in the process of governing risk, including in research, policy, strategies, and practices. It emphasises the need to develop metrics and quantitative approaches for resilience assessment and instruments for resilience management.

Flooding Expected in NYC Due to Climate Change

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This is not the first, but just the latest on this topic. See: Flooding in NYC Due to Climate Change.  Even locals who believe climate change is real have a hard time grasping that their city will almost certainly be flooded beyond recognition.

Here is another article on the same topic: By 2050, storms like Hurricane Sandy could flood nearly a quarter of New York City

Personal Effects of Climate Change

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Climate Change Isn’t Just Making Us Hot: We’re Angrier and More Violent. More crime, more death—even more bad math grades. And economies will continue to slow.

It doesn’t take a PhD to see that climate affects our lives. Anyone who lives far enough from the equator can tell just by opening the closet.

It takes a lot of scientists, however, to reveal how climate affects us—particularly as our climate changes. Sure, there’s prolonged heat and drought in some places, persistent floods and storms in others—all the ways we’ve learned to see global warming (though some still reject the science). But an exhaustive review of almost 200 different studies reveals not only the extent of those predictable changes but also how we humans are reacting to climatic wallops. The results are troubling.

Digital Resources Featured in this Blog

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There are many high quality reports, documents, ebooks and the like available online. During the past 6 years, more than 2,000 postings have been published.  Recently, we compiled a substantial index (41 pp) of the postings, with annotations and direct URLs.

If you want to use digital resources in lieu of or to supplement textbooks, this index will get you off to a great start. This Roundup of Recent Resources in Emergency Management (2010-2015) is an excellent resource for consultants, academics, and students. Where else could you get this many digital resources in one place ?  This index can be yours immediately, if you donate $25. dollars or more to the blog. New: special rate of $10. for students.

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