1. Bigger than Emergencies?
Thinking about Resilience in the round
Dr Robert MacFarlane
Head, UK Resilience Training, Doctrine and Standards Team
Deputy Director, Civil Contingencies Secretariat, National Security Secretariat
CFOA Conference
Dublin, 4th May 2017

2. The Plan…
1. (the changing nature of) resilience as an idea 2. focus on city resilience
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3. Disruption
Resilience: bigger than emergencies?

4. Shocks and Stresses

5. The Essence of Resilience
Historically seen in terms of:
Bounceback
Resistance
Endurance
Now seen in terms of:
<<<< Resilience spans >>>>
Timescale
Acute
Chronic
Nature of disturbance*
Shocks
Stresses
Response to disturbance
Continuity
Adaptability
(* disturbance describes episodes or periods of risk, disruption, change or opportunity)
Resilience: bigger than emergencies?

6. Three Key Questions about Future Resilience
There is a tendency to regard resilience as a self evidently good thing: more resilience is better than less.
In general terms this is a very reasonable position, but more resilience will typically come at the cost of having less of something else.
So, when thinking about future resilience, we should ask:
of what?
against what?
in pursuit of what?
What are we trying to make ++ resilient?
Do we fully understand the risk picture?
To what end? What value ++ resilience?
Resilience: bigger than emergencies?

7. What is Currently Done to Build Resilience in Cities?
Business Continuity
Contingency Planning
Emergency Response
Risk Management
Community Resilience
Infrastructure Protection
Security Management
Public Safety
Resilience: bigger than emergencies?

8. Systems perspective (what and how; dependencies)
Joining the dots is a recurrent idea in Resilience
Spatial perspective
(where)
Systems perspective (what and how; dependencies)
Resilience: bigger than emergencies?

9. Jesmond Dene, Newcastle upon Tyne
Resilience: bigger than emergencies?
Jesmond Dene, Newcastle upon Tyne

10. Jesmond Dene, Newcastle upon Tyne
Multiple functions Different perspectives Disconnected management
Sustainable urban drainage
Flood risk
Wildlife corridor
Recreation and amenity
Landscape
Mitigation of heat stress
Non-car transport
Public health
Education
Jesmond Dene, Newcastle upon Tyne
Resilience: bigger than emergencies?

11. Where do you draw the line? What is (not) a city?
High concentrations of people, businesses, networks, infrastructure, institutions, sites of socio-economic and environmental value, and risks
Resilience: bigger than emergencies?

12. Cities are not sealed Risks, flows and interdependencies
Resilience: bigger than emergencies?

13. Resilience as a nice idea, but…?
Prosperity
Citizens
Quality of Life
Funding
Disaster Risk Reduction
Industrial
Hazards
Inclusivity
Economy
Climate adaptation
Public safety
Smart cities
Crime
Critical Infrastructure
Malicious threats
Sustainability
Equality
Security
Innovation
Transport
Opportunity
Ecosystem services
Public health
Community resilience
Land-use planning
Emergency management
Culture
Education
Natural
Hazards
Built environment
Interdependencies
Food
Communications
Water
Data, Information,
Knowledge
NGOs
Governance
Aesthetics
Energy
Institutions
Waste
Public services
Psycho-social resilience
Resilience: bigger than emergencies?

14. What is distinctive about resilience? How does it help?
Safe
Secure
Sustainable
Smart
… and Resilient?
Resilience: bigger than emergencies?

16. History Aspiration and Strategy
The Story of the City
History Aspiration and Strategy
Shocks
Stresses
Resilience as a way of thinking and a framework to prioritise, reconcile and integrate the various things that we do, in order to survive and prosper
Resilience: bigger than emergencies?

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19. Thank you
4th May 2017