resilience Archives - Urban Resilience

Coping with massive firm closure: Lessons from a Task Force

admin2020-03-24T21:21:21+00:00March 23rd, 2020|Categories: Economic resilience|Tags: anchor firms, Economic resilience, resilience, Task Force|

The failure of MG Rover and the closure of the Longbridge Car Plant in 2005 dealt a major blow to the economy of the West Midlands. What lessons can we learn from this for promoting resilience to sudden economic [...]

How much water and for whom (or what)?

admin2020-03-24T21:20:10+00:00March 23rd, 2020|Categories: Urban resilience, Water resilience|Tags: equity, human rights, resilience, Urban, water resilience|

Urban water resilience focuses on the ability of urban populations to manage a water shock and cope with water stress. Hidden within this statement are important questions as to how much water is needed to constitute coping and what [...]