2020 recap: A year marked by reinvention, resilience, and remote working
Biden offers a message of resilience in America’s ‘winter of peril’ New president’s inauguration marks a return to the old order, as a longtime moderate prepares to think big Once … Continue reading
Resilience 2021: ‘Adapt, Improvise And Overcome’
Navigating A Path Through Resilience There is a growing focus on resilience in the corporate world, as leaders have sought to enhance their organization’s competitive edge in increasingly complex markets. … Continue reading
Indian farmers beat water scarcity with innovation
Reimagining business resilience and agility with cloud at the core As we move forward, every organization and every industry will increasingly need to ramp up teach intensity in order to … Continue reading
How to Fail and Bounce Back
Resilience is a business opportunity Raging bushfires were closely followed by a global pandemic, and the world as we knew it was changed inextricably. For those of us in the … Continue reading
Resilience: the art of bouncing back from adversity
Managing the well-being of your staff when you can’t see them can be tricky – how do you spot the signs of stress or anxiety, for example? Francoise Woolley, Head … Continue reading
How Japan Built Disaster-Proof Skyscrapers (WATCH VIDEO)
El Niño or La Niña? What They Mean and Why They Matter In the world of oceanography and climatology, the names El Niño and La Niña carry a particularly important … Continue reading
Indonesia earthquake: SPECIAL EDITION
Indonesia earthquake: monsoon rains slow search for survivors as death toll passes 80 Torrential monsoon rains have hampered the hunt for survivors of Friday’s powerful earthquake on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, … Continue reading
Floods Devastate Southern France
Indonesia: 2004 tsunami: 16 years on, Islamic Relief is still by the side of those affected When the Indian Ocean tsunami struck in 2004, the international community leapt into action. … Continue reading
How watching my sons during the pandemic taught me resilience
Recovery and resilience in the garden Recent studies show that following extreme storm events community gardens can supply food, enhance social empowerment, provide safe gathering spots, and restorative practices, to … Continue reading
Mantras that Emotionally Resilient People Use
From resilience to flourish, through positivity! Let’s start with this fundamental question: can resilience in the workplace really be taught? The answer is a somewhat cautious “yes”. Cautious, because, to … Continue reading
Emergency preparedness and natural disaster planning
Strengthening disaster risk reduction and management at the local level Nepal is exposed to recurring seismic and hydrometeorological disaster risks. While earthquakes and floods in the recent past have claimed … Continue reading
Three Crucial Questions To Help You Assess And Improve Your Business Resilience
Cyber Resilience is Critical as Risks to Business Keep Growing The digital transformation trend was accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing businesses to rapidly switch to new ways of working … Continue reading
Finding Your Way To Be Happy and Stay in Resilience
Dallas Innovates 2021: The Resilience Issue History shows some of the country’s biggest companies emerging out of the depths of recession. A 2009 Kaufman Foundation study found that over half … Continue reading
The path to post-pandemic smart cities
Natural disasters stalk education sector Zimbabwe’s post-Independence success in universal education remains the envy of most nations around the world. Basic education was declared an inalienable right in 1980, which … Continue reading
After a record 22 billion-dollar disasters in 2020, it’s time to overhaul US disaster policy – here’s how
The new Australian Disaster Resilience Index Australians are always learning to live with a changing, unpredictable and uncertain environment, of which natural hazards are an increasing part. We are all … Continue reading
9 Signs You’re Mentally Exhausted — And How to Bounce Back’
Rare blizzard in Spain leaves 4 dead and brings country to standstill A persistent blizzard blanketed large parts of Spain with an unusual amount of snow on Saturday, killing at … Continue reading
6 practices to support organizational resiliency and physician well-being
Natural disasters cause $210 billion in damage in 2020, insurer says Natural catastrophes around the world resulted in $210 billion in damage in 2020, with the United States especially hard … Continue reading
Why mental resilience is a key business skill for SME owners to learn
5 tech trends that will enable business resilience in 2021 Faced with perhaps the most disruptive circumstances of their existence, organisations worldwide realised that they had no greater ally than … Continue reading
This FEMA map will show how at-risk your city is for a natural disaster
New Australia-wide emergency warning system launched A streamlined nationwide warning system has been unveiled to help Australians better respond to natural disasters and emergencies. The three-tiered Australian Warning System establishes … Continue reading
Train Yourself To Be Happy: 4 Coachable Parts of Your Mental Health
Report: Japanese utility executives turned blind eye to tsunami risk Executives at Tokyo Electric Power downplayed the risks of a deadly tsunami before the Fukushima Daiichi plant was crippled by … Continue reading
Only 30% of Fukushima residents happy with disaster recovery progress
How to build business resilience in the Middle East If nothing else, 2020 has been a stark reminder that resilience is critically important for all of us – individuals, businesses, … Continue reading
3 Pillars of Resilience
How Journaling Can Help Reduces Stress and Anxiety Think about journaling as a different way of expressing your emotions. We spend so much time on screens in an increasingly digital … Continue reading
Building resilience on a restless Earth
‘Bomb cyclone’ is bringing big waves to Central Coast. What caused this weather phenomenon? Over the years, North Pacific cyclones have become more intense. We measure the intensity of a … Continue reading
River floods are boosting the global spread of plastic, study finds
‘Our children die in our hands’: Floods ravage South Sudan On a scrap of land surrounded by flooding in South Sudan, families drink and bathe from the waters that swept … Continue reading
The potential post-traumatic legacy of the Covid pandemic
16 Inspirational Quotes That Will Help You Bounce Back from 2020 We all need a little burst of wisdom once in awhile, whether it’s to jolt ourselves into a desired … Continue reading