12 Dec 2014
Massoud Amin witnessed the 1977 NYC blackout, the 9/11 tragedies near DC, and the collapse of the I-35W bridge. He works on enabling smart, secure and resilient infrastructures. He leads extensive projects in smart grids and is considered the “...
Tags: Video, Infrastructure and Services, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Urban Infrastructure, Urban Planning, Urban Risk Reduction
05 Aug 2019
In the six years since the creation of 100 Resilient Cities, more than 70 cities have published Resilience Strategies containing over 3,000 initiatives. To date, more than US$25 billion has been catalyzed by 100RC member cities toward the resilience...
Tags: Report, Urban Risk Reduction
30 Mar 2015
The call and the analysis presented here responds to an identified need for more comparative studies on how governance systems and development situations have shaped progress on disaster risk management (DRM). This paper reviews a selected number of ...
Tags: Report, Research, Capacity Building for Disaster Risk Management, Disaster Law