Resilience News

In an effort to reduce food waste, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection prohibited the disposal of organic wastes by institutions or businesses that create more than one ton of it per week in October 2014. This means that businesses such as grocery stores are left unable to simply throw out the food waste they produce, but find other uses for it.  Fortunately, local dairy farmers have come up with an innovative solution to this problem: using food waste to generate electricity.

This document provides guidance for pre-disaster planning for two of the National Disaster Recovery Framework Support Functions

Forty seven visitors were on White Island, also known as Whakaari, off the coast of New Zealand when the island’s volcano erupted. Six people have died as a result of the eruption and several more are severely injured and burned. This sudden tragedy has led many to question why the Island, which is home to New Zealand’s most active Volcano, was open for visitors. GeoNet, an agency which assesses volcanic risk activity levels in New Zealand increased its monitoring of the volcano’s activity from level zero to two in the weeks leading up to the eruption.

Heightened exposure to air pollution at public schools has been found to directly impact student health and academic performance, posing a threat to community resilience.

An operating food bank can help communities to build resilience to the extinction of plants through the maintenance of biodiversity.

In 2014 the Obama Administration issued this report calling for increased investment in American infrastructure, particularly in the area of transportation.

Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood is experiencing an influx of interest from developers, part of  a larger trend some have characterized as ‘climate gentrification.’ The neighborhood sits at a higher elevation than most others in Miami, a beneficial quality in a city which experiences many instances of flooding each year. The vulnerability Miami is experiencing is only becoming more severe as sea levels continue to rise; in the last decade, the number of “sunny day” floods has increased 400%. The city’s distressed outlook has recently led it to be been deemed “a poster child for a major city in big trouble.” 

Gonzalo Bacigalupe is a Professor of Counseling and School Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Boston and a member of the research team at CIGIDEN, one…

Gonzalo Bacigalupe is a Professor of Counseling and School Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Boston and a member of the research team at CIGIDEN, one of the Global Resilience Research Network’s (GRRN) partners, based in Santiago, Chile.

Beginning in early November, the Indian capital of Delhi started experiencing the longest bout of hazardous air quality the city has ever seen. Though the city consistently tops the charts as one of the world’s most polluted cities, recent pollution levels reached ten times the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommended maximum - an unseen high in Delhi.

In America, black women are 3 to 4 times more likely to die as a result of their pregnancies compared to white women. Further, America is 32nd out of 35 in the ranking of infant mortality rates among the world’s wealthiest nations.

Over the past week Venice has undergone historic flooding after experiencing its highest tide in 50 years. Water has reached over six feet above sea level, covering 80 percent of the city.