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What is the Resilient Futures podcast all about?
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 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
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In IRIS News
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New Resilient Futures Podcast: Why Do We Need Parks?
We know that green spaces are good for you. They provide benefits to air quality, biodiversity, and even your mental health… but why? Returning guest Joeri Morpurgo, a postdoctoral fellow at Universiteit Leiden in the Netherlands, set out with his team to answer this question. They found an important distinction: not all green spaces are…
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New Resilient Futures Podcast: Engineering, History, and the Mississippi River
The Mississippi River Basin covers over a million square miles across the southeast and midwest US. Despite growing up far away in the northeast US, Boyce Upholt thinks about the nation’s largest waterway more than most: he’s the author of “The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi.” The book began nearly eight…
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Water Resilience Shines at Biennial Georgia Water Resources Conference
ATHENS, GA – Interdisciplinary knowledge is a critical aspect of solving big environmental problems. That’s why, for the 2025 Georgia Water Resources Conference, we brought everyone together. We do mean everyone: ecologists, hydrologists, engineers, geoscientists, lawyers, anthropologists, consultants and certified fish enthusiasts. On March 25 and 26, the University of Georgia hosted the 2025 Georgia…