Communities large and small exist throughout the West where water is life. Social systems are entwined with water systems, so water supply challenges are social challenges. To understand how the ...

EPRI's Climate READi Framework provides a structured, data-driven approach to assess physical climate risks and develop adaptation strategies in the power sector. As society’s reliance on electricity ...

These last 15 months have tested many organizations' resilience in ways that most of us never imagined. For our small nonprofit independent school, the size and complexity of creating a fully online ...

Global warming has had disastrous consequences for the world’s transport infrastructure, hurting trade and quality of life. Just this week, New York’s Third Avenue Bridge connecting the Bronx and ...

The project goal is to create a resiliency plan for Jefferson County Open Space (JCOS) that considers ecological, social, and built infrastructure elements of the park system as well as the ...

Disasters and disruptions to transportation systems create barriers to the movement of people and goods and can cause knock-on effects on economic and social systems. Political pressure falls on ...

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published an update to its cyber-resiliency engineering framework that advocates building resilient IT systems that can withstand a modern ...

While serving as the U.S. Army Chief of Engineers and Commanding General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), our team helped finalize the infrastructure work post-Katrina and the recovery ...

Recent periods of financial stress and the proliferation of risks across the financial system are fueling the development of regulatory initiatives to strengthen requirements and promote international ...