Resilience
Why we need to tackle climate change and the sixth mass extinction at the same time
COP26 necessarily has a major focus on reducing, eliminating, and sequestering carbon. Less prominent in the headlines is the crisis in biodiversity – the Sixth Great Extinction, with the current rate of species loss ...
Why we need connected resilience
Covid-19 shouldn’t have been a surprise. A global pandemic has been at the top of the list of likely threats, the National Risk Register, for years, and has been in the scientific literature for at ...
The lessons from Covid-19 from top business leaders
Most businesses were ill-prepared to deal with the pandemic and muddled though the challenges stemming from it, according to a report published today. Resilience reimagined: a practical guide for organisations was produced by Cranfield University, in ...
COVID-19 and terrorism: assessing the short- and long-term impacts
Summary The COVID-19 pandemic is already having a significant impact on terrorism in a variety of ways. There is a mixed picture on the level of attacks in the short-term – lockdown measures will tend ...
Data driven innovation in coastal resilience: Cranfield at the AAAS, Seattle
Plans are in place for the Cranfield input to the upcoming 'American Association for the Advancement of Science' (AAAS) annual conference in Seattle in February. Ron Corstanje and Stephen Hallett [Link], who are serving as ...
Avoca-don’t? The global avocado crisis and the question of supply system resilience
“Holy Guacamole” and “Guaca-moolah”! Headline writers and twitter addicts have had a field day over the recent surge in prices for avocados, but joking aside, the combination of factors leading to poor harvests that have caused ...