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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

  • Resilient Futures Podcast: The Gospel of Grass

    Resilient Futures Podcast: The Gospel of Grass

    Patrick Keyser knows the grass may not always be greener–but there’s still a lot to learn from it. Since long before European colonization, grasslands have a rich history as one of North America’s most diverse, resilient, and iconic landscapes. These ecosystems are the epicenters of agriculture in the US, but native grass species are disappearing…

  • New Resilient Futures Podcast: Making Sense of SETS

    New Resilient Futures Podcast: Making Sense of SETS

    This month, Alysha Helmrich is our host and guest! This short episode discusses social-ecological-technological systems and sensemaking. She explores urban systems as SETS, positions SETS thinking for sensemaking, and identifies four modes of SETS to build requisite variety. To learn more, follow the links below! Links:Foundational reading on SETSMain perspective discussed regarding SETS and sensemakingPaper:…

  • New Resilient Futures Podcast: The Future of ASCE

    New Resilient Futures Podcast: The Future of ASCE

    In the face of immense global and national change, the world’s oldest engineering society is staying flexible. The American Society for Civil Engineers President, Marsha Bomar, joins our host Alysha Helmrich to speak to the power of diverse perspectives in building the future’s infrastructure and the need for interdisciplinary teams in solving great challenges. Alysha…