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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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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…
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New Resilient Futures Podcast: We’re Going Local! Conserving Land and Communities
Emmanuel Stone was raised to love good food: his mother, a restaurant owner, inspired him to teach culinary arts, learn about agriculture, and emphasize the importance of whole foods. This led him to Athens Land Trust: an organization that simultaneously encourages conservation and community in Athens, GA where UGA is located. Stone serves as the…
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New Resilient Futures Podcast: A Framework for Intertwined Infrastructure Systems
Resilient Futures fans- Say hello to our first podcast episode of 2025! This month’s guest is someone close to home for our team- meet Alysha’s PhD student, Negin Shamsi! Negin gives an overview of her first first-author publication, titled “Interdependency classification: a framework for infrastructure resilience.” Shamsi’s research focus is infrastructure and urban resilience. Infrastructure…