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Resilient Futures Podcast
Resilient Futures is a monthly podcast on all things resilience! The show examines this topic by discussing ongoing research, highlighting current efforts, and sharing stories of resilience in diverse contexts across the world! By exploring a wide variety of perspectives, the show digs deep into understanding the many dimensions of resilience. New episodes will be released at the start of every month. If you have questions about things we've discussed or have suggestions for future episodes…
Episodes
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Tech Tools for Resilience: Can Artificial Intelligence Aid Natural Disaster Response?
Disasters in the US are becoming more frequent, severe, and costly, and the emergency management organizations that handle them are struggling. Could…
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The World Within: Building Resilience in Medicine with Human Wellbeing
On this show, we usually focus on structural resilience- but what about the resilience of our personal wellbeing? This year, the University of Georgia opened…
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From Restaurant to Reef: Building Resilient Coasts and Recycling (Oyster) Roasts
This month, we're welcoming the team from Shell to Shore, an Athens-based oyster shell recycling initiative that works with restaurants across the state of…
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Community Resilience: How National Laboratories Use Interdisciplinary Expertise to Support Healthy Energy Systems
The energy sector is continually complicated by aging power infrastructure, changing technology and competing needs from communities and industry. The Critical…
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Let It Burn: How Fire Makes Forests More Resilient
After a decade working across the Southeast, Jordan Youngmann is seeing his hometown in upstate New York through fresh eyes–and his work is just warming up…
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Dawg Days: A Flood Risk Assessment for the University of Georgia
This podcast comes to you from the University of Georgia, a campus that has stretched across the hills of Athens, Georgia since 1785. UGA is situated between…
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The Gospel of Grass: Patrick Keyser Speaks to the Resilience of Native Grasslands
Patrick Keyser knows the grass may not always be greener--but there's still a lot to learn from it. Since long before European colonization, grasslands have a…
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Making Sense of SETS: Our Host Alysha on Complex Infrastructure Systems
This month, Alysha Helmrich is our host and guest! This short episode discusses social-ecological-technological systems and sensemaking. She explores urban…
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ASCE’s Resilient Future: the World’s Oldest Engineering Society Brings New Voices to the Table
In the face of immense global and national change, the world’s oldest engineering society is staying flexible. The American Society for Civil Engineers…
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Insuring The Future: The Role of Insurance in Disaster Risk Reduction
Disasters are affecting more people and property than ever before. Since 1980, the U.S. has experienced 400+ weather-related "billion dollar" disasters, $3…
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Street Smarts and Survival Smarts: How NYC's Urban Preppers are Planning for the Future
What did you do during the COVID-19 social distancing era? Some of us learned to make sourdough, some of us perfected a viral whipped coffee, plenty of us did…
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Going With the Flow: Adapting the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta for the Long Haul
California relies on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta as a hub for water, biodiversity, agriculture, recreation, and more. How can we make sure that management…
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Behind the City Scenes: Why You Should Get to Know Your Local Infrastructure
Have you ever asked your garbage truck where it's going? Sybil Derrible is a professor of civil engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago, focusing on…
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A More Resilient Georgia: Introducing the Statewide Resilience Assessment!
This month, we’re proud to introduce an in-house effort at the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems: the Georgia Statewide Resilience Assessment…
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American Disasters: How Classical Calamities Inform Emergency Response Today
Cynthia Kierner, historian, self-declared "non-21st century person," and Mets fan, is deeply interested in the role of disturbances across American history-…
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Why Do We Need Parks? Welcoming Back Joeri Morpurgo
We know that green spaces are good for you. They provide benefits to air quality, biodiversity, and even your mental health... but why? Returning guest Joeri…
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The Nation's Heartbeat: Engineering, History, and the Mississippi River
The Mississippi River Basin covers over a million square miles across the southeast and midwest US. Despite growing up far away in the northeast US, Boyce…
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Sustainable Neighborhoods: How Athens Land Trust Combines Conservation and Community
Emmanuel Stone was raised to love good food: his mother, a restaurant owner, inspired him to teach culinary arts, learn about agriculture, and emphasize the…
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It's All Connected: A Framework for Intertwined Infrastructure Systems
This month's guest is someone close to home for our team- meet Alysha's PhD student, Negin Shamsi! Negin gives an overview of her first first-author…
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Building Biodiverse Urban Gardens
How big does an urban garden need to be to support pollinators and other important insects? What kinds of plants lead to the most biodiverse space? How should…
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Greening the cul-de-sac: How can we encourage nature-positive residential developments?
Big, leafy shade trees, burbling creeks, and access to recreation in beautiful natural areas: most people intuitively know that these kinds of natural…
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The Resilient Future of Solar Power
Lauren McPhillips didn't always dream of being a professor, but she knew she loved solving problems. After earning three degrees in Earth systems science and…
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Water in the USA: Affordable, Accessible, Clean Water for All?
Water is a natural resource all of us rely on, but there's a lot of thought and work that goes into being able to turn on your tap. How do we make sure water…
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UGA's Resilient Future: Creating Space for Nature-based Solutions
Introducing Dr. Brian Bledsoe, Director of the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems, professor of civil and environmental engineering at the…
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Urban Morphology: Buildings, Streets, and the People In Between
This month, our host Alysha Helmrich and her guest Lynn Abdouni are coming to you live from halfway across the world. This pair of UGA engineering professors…
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Implementing Change: Progress on Climate Resilience in Atlanta, Georgia
This month, we're welcoming practitioners from Atlanta Regional Commission: Katherine Zitsch, Deputy COO, and Jon Philipsborn, Climate and Resilience Manager…
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Expect the Unexpected: Resilience and Life Advice from the Late Bronze Age
This month, anthropologist and historian Dr. Eric Cline and USACE research social scientist Dr. Ben Trump come together with hosts Alysha and Todd to explore…
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Special Guest: Rachel Jacobson on Climate Resiliency in the Army and Beyond
This month features a special guest. The Honorable Rachel Jacobson, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy and Environment, visited UGA for…
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Equitable Engineering: Nature-based Solutions in the Global South
Alysha and Todd speak with Marta Berbés-Blázquez and Stephanie Cruz Maysonet from the University of Waterloo about the implementation of Nature-based Solutions…
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An Interconnected World: Why Biodiversity Matters in Engineering
Alysha and Todd are joined by Kyle McKay (USACE Research Civil Engineer) and Charles van Rees (Conservation Scientist at UGA) to discuss BIODIVERSITY- and…
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Promoting Resilience: Interdisciplinary Expertise and Collaboration
On interdisciplinary collaboration, promoting resilience projects and disaster management strategies with Executive Director of ASCE, Tom Smith Alysha Helmrich…
Resilient Futures PodcastTurning a new leaf: an introduction to the Resilient Futures Podcast
Join co-hosts Dr. Alysha Helmrich and Dr. Todd Bridges as they introduce themselves and the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems, reintroduce the…
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The Power of Identity: Bringing Our Whole Selves to Research
Academic research, no matter how scientific, can be deeply personal. Pursuing a PhD in a field like urban resilience demands an unwavering dedication to the…
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Green Infrastructure: Opportunities, Challenges, and the CUGIC
Urban green infrastructure has the ability to make cities more sustainable. However, the exact implementation of green infrastructure and the choices that must…
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Future of Urban Hydrology
On this month's episode of the Future Cities Podcast, Dr. Alysha Helmrich hosts Dr. Virginia Smith, who explores the future of urban hydrology. She covers a…
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Can I Recycle This?
On this month's episode of the Future Cities podcast, Alysha Helmrich interviews her colleague, Katherine (Kat) Shayne. Kat Shayne is the CEO of Can I Recycle…
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Expanding Ecological Connectivity toward Resilient Socio-ecological Landscapes
Dr. Catherine de Rivera leads a conversation with Carole Hardy and Eric Butler. They dive into the social, ecological, and technological aspects of…
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Dynamic Criticality for Infrastructure Prioritization
Dynamic Criticality is the idea that organizations must constantly reform their priorities in the face of volatile environments to maintain an adaptive state…
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Centralization and Decentralization for Resilient Infrastructure
Pervasive across infrastructure literature and discourse are the concepts of centralized, decentralized, and distributed systems, and there appears to be…
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Environmental Justice and Air Quality
Dr. Christina H. Fuller shares her work on environmental health and justice, particularly examining how air quality varies down to a block-level across…
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Developing and Deploying Disruptive Ideas
Dr. Mikhail Chester hosts Dr. Stephanie Pincetl, whose work engages a multitude of disciplines (from engineers to urban planners to economists) to advance…
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Carbon Banking within Urban Spaces
The built environment has significantly contributed to climate change, and it is becoming increasingly clear that net-zero carbon emissions is not enough. Phil…
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Justice in Sustainability Pathways
Distributive, procedural, recognitional justice are vital for nature-based solutions, but these dimensions of justice have multiple and conflicting meanings…
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Democratizing Visualization for Climate Justice
Whose voice counts? Whose visualization informs the design of cities? And how do we collaborate in nurturing resilient equitable futures? Join a conversation…
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Local Labs of Urban Informality (English)
This month's episode was initially published in Spanish -- the co-hosts' native language. Today, we are publishing a dubbed English version. --- The episode…
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Local Labs of Urban Informality (Spanish)
This month's episode is initially being published in Spanish -- the co-hosts' native language. On September 15th, we will be publishing a dubbed English…
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Heat Risk
This month's episode, Heat Risk, explores the risk of heat exposure in Phoenix, AZ but has relevance across the globe with the current heat waves being…
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Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty & Green Infrastructure
In this month's episode, Dr. Alysha Helmrich sits down with Marissa Webber, a PhD Candidate at Carnegie Mellon University, to discuss her recent publication: A…
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Every Tree Tells a Story - Cadder Primary School & The Lost Woods
This month’s podcast is brought to you by the children of Cadder Primary School in Glasgow and the Lost Woods Project to tell you all about their work on Every…
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Environmental Justice and Green Infrastructure
Green infrastructure features are often celebrated as multifunctional solutions in cities, with an array of benefits that they could provide. However, the…
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Infrastructure for Visible Cities
Dr. Sybil Derrible (@SybilDerrible) is the creator of the Actionable Science for Urban Sustainability (AScUS) society, and former chair of the International…
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What Makes Infrastructure Sustainable?
Discussions about infrastructure are often centered on the opinions and prevailing ideas within engineering, but other disciplines have valuable insights on…
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Climate Gentrification and Miami
In this month's episode, we talk with Nkosi Muse (@weatherkos), a scientific advisor on climate change adaptation to the city of Miami and Ph. D. student at…
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The Hidden Environmental Histories of the River Clyde
This week we bring you another podcast from the city of Glasgow focusing on the Hidden Environmental Histories of the River Clyde. At the height of the British…
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Climate Gentrification in Coastal Cities
In this episode, a diverse team of graduate students discuss their research on climate gentrification in the Eastern coast of the United States and their…
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Every Tree Tells a Story
Clair Cooper, PhD Candidate at Durham University, is joined by Gillian Dick, Strategic Planning Manager with Glasgow City Council, and Donagh Horgan from the…
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Defining Resilience (Rebroadcast)
We hear the term used all over the place: in music, on TV, in books– but what IS resilience? In this episode, we discuss resilience from the…
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Nature-Based Solutions and You
Green infrastructure (GI) and nature-based solutions (NBS) are relatively new concepts in expert circles, at least by those terms. In this episode, Dr…
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Green Infrastructure: Diversity in Perspectives and Applications
Description: Alysha Helmrich and Maike Hamann host a discussion on the various perspectives surrounding green infrastructure (GI) with Vinicius Taguchi…
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Cities of Light
Marissa Matsler and Robert Lloyd explore another dimension of the series title, as they chat with the authors and editors of “Cities of Light” - a new book of…