The key to building a knowledge base is curiosity and a desire to keep improving.
With the help and support of a wide range of people, a knowledge base about risk management and resilience, urban development and how to avoid disasters has been regularly added to since 2016.
It covers various aspects of how people, teams and organisations take and manage risk and manage resilience, how urban environments are formed and how they need to evolve, and how action can be taken to stop disasters happening.
This website contains a selection of publications from this knowledge base, which are available below as downloads and links to websites. More publications are available - get in touch to find out about them...
The knowledge base also includes the toolkits described on this website for Risk Management and Resilience, Urban Development and Avoiding Disasters. These toolkits have been developed and used in a range of contexts and geographies. Get in touch to find out more about them...
Publications that are part of the Urban 2.0 framework are available to download...
Publications that are part of the Disasters Avoided initiative are available to download...
A selection of published risk management articles and papers are available below.
The world continues to change. Is Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) flexible enough today to provide organisations with value, and is it helping people to make decisions? This piece, written and published in 2017, still resonates with today's times...
Whilst we cannot predict the future, we need to think about, plan and prepare for possible events and situations that could impact us. Horizon scanning and scenario analysis can help us do this...
What are novel risks, and how can we deal with them? This short paper provides thoughts...
This paper, written and published in 2018, discusses aspects of team and organisational culture...
The two techniques discussed in this paper – (1) Counterfactual thinking and (2) Pro and PreMortems – can help us combat our in-built biases and help us to pursue our objectives in the best way we can...
This article looks at some of the risk management principles from the NASA Voyager mission, and what lessons we can apply to our own activities...
In this interconnected and increasingly digitised world, many (indeed, perhaps most) risks and uncertainties that we contend with cannot be evaluated and managed in isolation...
Pro-mortems and pre-mortems are a simple and highly effective technique for teams to employ “prospective hindsight” and imagine a future that has already happened...
Key aspects to managing risk on projects and initiatives...
Key aspects to managing risk on large infrastructure projects, with a focus on Canada.
Key aspects to managing risk on large infrastructure projects...
Most people agree that the world is changing. But is ERM adaptable enough to deal with the new business realities?
This paper discusses an approach to safety management and risk management that is called “Safety-II”...
This paper discusses how organisational culture and the ability to hold open discussions about risks are powerful factors that impact our ability to manage risk and resilience. It uses, as a reference point, the Chernobyl accident that occurred in April 1986...
The world of professional cycling has changed a great deal over the years. This paper focuses on how data- and facts- driven risk management is embedded into modern-day race strategy, tactics and decision-making in the 'grand tour' races...
As reported by the Guardian, an Australian investigation found that an A380 plane that suffered an engine explosion shortly after takeoff would not have landed safely without the 'focused and effective action of the flight crew'.
This article provides thoughts on lessons learned...
The Urban 2.0 website contains interviews with a range of experienced practitioners, authors and academics that discuss and unpack various aspects of urban development...
The Disasters Avoided website contains interviews with a range of experienced practitioners, authors and academics that discuss and unpack various aspects of disaster risk reduction and how to avoid disasters...
Over a five-year period between 2017 and 2022, interviews were held with a wide range of people about different aspects of taking and managing risk, spanning the following aspects:
1. Psychology, cognitive bias, culture, decision-making and teamwork
2. Sustainability and Environment, Social & Governance
3. Safety and Engineering
4. Technology & Quantitative risk management
5. Thoughts on Changing Risk Management
6. Resilience & Crisis Management
7. Finance & Risk Management
8. Emergency Management
Copies of these interviews are available on request. Get in touch for further details.
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