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We are in a period of tremendous global change. Our public institutions are struggling with challenges like climate change, cyber-attacks, terrorism, and pandemics. Resilient World features insight and analysis about...
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We are in a period of tremendous global change. Our public institutions are struggling with challenges like climate change, cyber-attacks, terrorism, and pandemics. Resilient World features insight and analysis about how to meet these challenges from thought leaders in fields as diverse as national security, science fiction and public health. It highlights innovative ideas about how to prepare for, manage through and bounce back from adversity – in other words, how to be resilient.
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Resilient World | Navigating Disruption in National Security, Foreign Policy, Crisis Response, Globa
Resilient World | Navigating Disruption in National Security, Foreign Policy, Crisis Response, Globa
22 AUG 2018 · From its origins in a remote corner of West Africa, the 2014 Ebola pandemic quickly demanded an unprecedented response to stop a deadly disease in its tracks. As deputy homeland security advisor to former President Barack Obama, Amy Pope was at the heart of the federal government’s mitigation efforts. In this final episode of Season One of Resilient World, Pope details how the White House and President Obama applied lessons learned from responding to Ebola and to the 2015 Zika outbreak, and discusses key.
8 AUG 2018 · As Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration, Deputy Incident Manager for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and throughout a 30-year Coast Guard career in which he rose to the rank of Vice Admiral, Peter Neffenger has faced the challenges associated with managing complex systems. In this episode, Neffenger shares stories from these and other experiences, describing his lessons learned on the imperative for societies to build resilience into their systems.
25 JUL 2018 · Washington DC’s first chief resilience officer Kevin Bush is confronted daily by a range of major shocks and stresses that threaten a 700,000-person, nearly 70-square mile city that is also the capital of the United States. Bush discusses how to forge a culture of resilience across the city, makes the case for greater investment in resilient infrastructure and practices, and explores how long-term stresses like a high cost of living can reduce the city’s resilience to short-term shocks like flooding.
11 JUL 2018 · In his lifetime of public service, Ray Mabus has worn many hats: Navy officer, Congressional staffer, Governor of Mississippi, Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, and Secretary of the Navy.
27 JUN 2018 · Max Brooks – author of the New York Times bestselling zombie novel World War Z – believes that our society is in denial about the need to prepare for real-life crises. In this episode, Brooks calls for individuals, businesses, and political leaders to cast aside a culture of complacency and to instead think creatively about how we can better meet long-term challenges like pandemics, hurricanes, climate change, and more.
13 JUN 2018 · From the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York, to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, Admiral Thad Allen’s varied career saw him responding to some of the most challenging crises the United States has faced. Here, the former Commandant of the Coast Guard draws on his lifetime of leadership and disaster management expertise to discuss how to make America more resilient – from entire federal government departments right down to the individual citizen.
We are in a period of tremendous global change. Our public institutions are struggling with challenges like climate change, cyber-attacks, terrorism, and pandemics. Resilient World features insight and analysis about...
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We are in a period of tremendous global change. Our public institutions are struggling with challenges like climate change, cyber-attacks, terrorism, and pandemics. Resilient World features insight and analysis about how to meet these challenges from thought leaders in fields as diverse as national security, science fiction and public health. It highlights innovative ideas about how to prepare for, manage through and bounce back from adversity – in other words, how to be resilient.
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