Building Sustainable Resilience

Global Resilience Strategies leverages two complementary efforts: STAR-TIDES and Collaborative Community Resilience (CCR). They help build resilience to natural and man-made emergencies while increasing opportunities in under-served communities.

Knowledge Sharing

STAR-TIDES is a global knowledge-sharing network with several thousand nodes, from universities in Asia to NGOs in Europe and Africa, to diverse governmental agencies. STAR-TIDES has held an annual technology demo since 2007.

Community Focus

Collaborative Community Resilience (CCR) focuses on specific, under-served communities. Encouraging people to stay in their communities, or return to them, can reduce pressures for the levels of migration that can undermine political systems

Innovative Economics

Increasing use of automation and artificial intelligence, and other developments, may threaten many entry-level jobs in the next few years. Alternative economic models, such as networked economic structures, or “peering/sharing” approaches, might reduce such pressures.

Integrated Approaches

In fact, there are many platforms today, such as agriculture/food security, energy/energy storage, shelter/heating/cooling/lighting, water, etc. CCR integrates multiple platforms with innovative economic models in community-centric ways.

Learning and Teaching

Trans-Disciplinary research and teaching are key to CCR. Both academics and practitioners are essential. CCR projects are bottom up efforts. They begin by listening to community views on governance, development/ sustainability, and resilience before technology

Addressing Interdependencies

Building resilience also includes a wide variety of areas and disciplines, such as (1) cybersecurity, (2) military “mission assurance” and civil defense readiness (3) critical infrastructure protection, (4) business continuity, (5) public health, and (6) insurance and reinsurance

Cross-Cutting Coordination

Coordinating across these stovepipes is not easy: Civilian government processes differ from the military’s, while commercial risk-management, reinsurance and ROI calculations are foreign to government approaches. Academic researchers and non-governmental/inter-national organizations may use still other methods and terminology. Any analysis also must recognize impending change and adapt to it, from accelerating technologies, to socio-cultural factors, to changing workforces and expanding cyberattack surfaces. These provide outstanding opportunities to encourage trans-disciplinary approaches.

Diverse Partners

(1) Multiple academic institutions, (2) businesses, (3) several state, federal and international government efforts, (4) philanthropic institutions, (5) aligned idea leaders, (6) think tanks, (7) international organizations, and (8) organizations focused on specific technologies and infrastructures