Since social-economic systems increase interdependency, a crucial question arises: Is an interconnected world a safer or a more dangerous place in which to live? Over the last few years, we have witnessed the dark side of increasing interdependencies. As such, there is a growing need to focus on how to mitigate networked risk and to enhance the system resilience to the impact of a large-scale s...

Cultural silence is frequently the outcome of deep-seated taboos regarding adults talking to children about sex and death. This paper examines the impact of cultural silence on the resilience of children orphaned by AIDS in Uganda. Cultural silence is often linked with denial. This article explores the complexities of cultural silence in terms of its causes, justifications and impacts. The find...

Critical knowledge gaps seriously hinder efforts for building disaster resilience at all levels, especially in disaster-prone least developed countries. Information deficiency is most serious at local levels, especially in terms of spatial information on risk, resources, and capacities of communities. To tackle this challenge, we develop a general methodological approach that integrates communi...

This document outlines the benefits of a trusted cyber incident data repository that enterprise risk owners and insurers could use to anonymously share sensitive cyber incident data and is the first in a series of white papers. This paper outlines the potential benefits of a trusted cyber incident data repository that enterprise risk owners and insurers could use to anonymously share, store, ag...

Adaptive measurement-based overlay networks offer increased performance and resilience to benign failures for end-to-end communication by using aggressive adaptivity mechanisms. These mechanisms dynamically optimize applicationcentric metrics such as latency, jitter, bandwidth, and loss rate. However, end-systems are more vulnerable than core routers, making overlay networks susceptible to mali...

Today’s infrastructures — such as road, rail, gas, electricity and ICT — are highly interdependent, and may best be viewed as multi-infrastructure systems. A key challenge in seeking to enhance the resilience of multi-infrastructure systems in practice relates to the fact that many interdependencies may be unknown to the operators of these infrastructures. How can we foster infrastructure resil...

The combination of environmental and anthropogenic stressors has driven the global decline of coral reefs. Changing demographics of the human population and growing dependence on coral reef resources have necessitated mitigation measures to improve the sustainable use of the reef ecosystem. While management measures are useful in slowing the unprecedented loss of coral reefs, active restoration...

Abstract. Greenspaces within broader ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction (Eco-DRR) strategies provide multiple benefits to society, biodiversity, and addressing climate breakdown. In this study, we investigated urban growth, its intersection with hazards, the availability of greenspace for (DRR) in city Quito, Ecuador, which experiences hazards including landslides, floods, volcanoes, earth...