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A sample of publications

Creating a body of knowledge over time...

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...

Urban Development Publications

Link to Urban 2.0 publications

Publications that are part of the Urban 2.0 framework are available to download...

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Disaster Risk Publications

Link to Disasters Avoided publications

Publications that are part of the Disasters Avoided initiative are available to download...

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Risk Management & Resilience Publications

A selection of published risk management articles and papers are available below.

ERM for a dynamic world (2017 - the IRM)

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...

Read

Scenario Analysis (2022 - the IRM)

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...

Read

Novel Risks (2020 - self-published)

What are novel risks, and how can we deal with them? This short paper provides thoughts...

Read

Aspects of organisational culture (2018 - self-published)

This paper, written and published in 2018, discusses aspects of team and organisational culture...

Read

Counterfactual thinking and pro + premortems (2020 - self-published)

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...

Read

Voyager - lessons in managing risk (2020 - self-published)

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... 

Read

We are none of us islands (2018 - the IRM)

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...

Read

Imagining a future (2019 - the IRM)

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...

Read

Managing project risk at warp speed (2021)

Key aspects to managing risk on projects and initiatives...

Read

Infrastructure project risk (2018 - the Conference Board of Canada)

Key aspects to managing risk on large infrastructure projects, with a focus on Canada.

Read

Infrastructure project risk (2017 - the IRM)

Key aspects to managing risk on large infrastructure projects...

Read

Cooperative resilience (2021 - self-published)

Most people agree that the world is changing. But is ERM adaptable enough to deal with the new business realities?

Read

Safety and risk management (2021 - self-published)

This paper discusses an approach to safety management and risk management that is called “Safety-II”... 

Read

Chernobyl - a fatal reaction (2017 - self-published)

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...

Read

Pro Cycling (2018 - self-published)

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...

Read

Lessons from QF32 (2017 - the GRC Institute)

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...

Read

Urban Development Interviews

Thinking and advice from experienced people...

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...

Read Urban 2.0 interviews

Disasters Avoided Interviews

Thinking and advice from a global community...

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...

Read Disasters Avoided interviews

General Risk & Resilience Interviews

Thinking and advice from a global community...

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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Document Library

Enterprise_Risk_Winter_2022_GB_scenario-analysis (pdf)Download
Enterprise-Risk_Winter_2017_Infrastructure-Project-Risk (pdf)Download
GRC-Institute_2017_Lessons-from-QF32 (pdf)Download
GRC-Institute_2018_GB-LF_Terrorism-risk (pdf)Download
CBC-RiskWatch_Autumn_2018_Infrastructure (pdf)Download
RIC_paper_Novel-Risks (pdf)Download
RIC_Managing-project-risk-at-warp-speed (pdf)Download
RIC_Cooperative-resilience (pdf)Download
RIC_Chernobyl_A-fatal-reaction (pdf)Download
RIC_Formula-1_Taking-risks-and-leading-the-way (pdf)Download
RIC_great-culture-great-risk-great-performance (pdf)Download
RIC_Kaleidoscopic-learning-Counterfactual-thinking-and-Pro-PreMortems (pdf)Download
RIC_Pro-Cycling_Manage-risk-and-achieve-success (pdf)Download
RIC_Safety-II-and-Risk-mgmt (pdf)Download
RIC_Taking-and-managing-risk_Thinking-Fast-and-Slow (pdf)Download
RIC_Voyager_A-lesson-in-taking-and-managing-risk (pdf)Download
RIC_Purposeful-resilience-on-capital-projects (pdf)Download

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