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About the podcast
The subject of resilience has gained increasing attention across a range of contexts and fields of application over the last decade, to include infrastructure, climate change, natural hazards, cyber security, public health, personal health and wellbeing, supply chains, and social and/or community resilience. The Resilient Futures Podcast (formerly the Future Cities Podcast) explores the nature, characteristics, and factors contributing to the resilience of systems. The role of nature in supporting system resilience will be one of multiple foundational themes which will also include systems thinking, interdisciplinarity, integrative solutions, etc., and fostering ideas across sectors and perspectives.
Hosted by Alysha Helmrich and Todd Bridges
Produced by Sarah Buckleitner
To learn more, suggest a topic or get in touch, contact production manager Sarah Buckleitner: sarah.buckleitner@uga.edu
In IRIS News
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New Resilient Futures Podcast: The role of insurance in resilience
Disasters are affecting more people and property than they ever have before. Since 1980, the U.S. has experienced 400+ weather-related “billion dollar” disasters, $3 trillion in economic impacts, and thousands of lives and livelihoods. In the effort to build our disaster resilience as a society, what’s the role of insurance? In this episode, our hosts…
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New Resilient Futures Podcast: Disaster Prep in the Big City
What did you do during the COVID-19 social distancing era? Some of us learned to make sourdough, some of us perfected a viral whipped coffee, plenty of us did a whole lot of nothing- but this NYC subculture was busy taking notes. Anna Bounds, a Professor of Sociology at Queens College, has felt called to…
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New Resilient Futures Episode: Going With the Flow
California relies on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta as a hub for water, biodiversity, agriculture, recreation, and more. How can we make sure that management actions are working as intended? A returning guest to the Resilient Futures Podcast, Stephen Elser is a Senior Environmental Scientist with the Delta Stewardship Council, which works to advance California’s coequal…