Municipal leaders have an opportunity to lead their communities to a resilient future and mitigate flood risk. A case study from Algonquin, IL highlights resiliency investments that have fundamentally transformed how flooding affects the community and have yielded significant cost savings.
At the recent Milken Global Conference, rebuilding LA was top of mind. Partnership, system-level engagement, and local leadership were key themes. And the insurance sector has a critical opportunity to reframe its role in disaster preparedness and society at large.
Unexpected disasters are causing damage in unlikely places, forcing decision-makers in the public and private sectors to prepare for the most common disasters in their region as well as the rare, once-in-a-hundred-year ones. But strategies exist to help decision-makers prepare for the unexpected.
The Resiliency Ecosystem spans various industries, infrastructure categories, political groups, and geographies. The Epicenter–in partnership with our parent organization, The Resiliency Company–seeks to convene leaders from across this ecosystem to tell a big story about resiliency and make the business case for investing in it.
In addition to publishing regular resiliency content to The Epicenter, we're exploring strategies to foster deeper engagement among participants in this ecosystem, including a Resiliency Events Calendar, Resiliency Podcast Playlist, and other forthcoming engagement initiatives.
This calendar curates events happening across the U.S. (both in-person and virtually) to advance the resiliency conversation. The calendar is community-sourced, please submit events for the calendar here.