National Centre for Resilience

Indispensable - Understanding the mental health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on support staff in essential and voluntary service roles

Tue, 21 Jun 2022 13:42:56 BST

This report presents the findings of a pilot study that focuses on the mental health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on support staff in essential and voluntary service roles.

A review of interacting natural hazards and cascading impacts in Scotland

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 15:41:00 BST

This report provides an overview for Scotland of the nascent research field of compound events and cascading impacts. It provides conclusions concerning how these events and impacts have and may affect Scotland with climate change in the coming decades.

Cultural Heritage and Urban Resilience in Scotland: Co- Designing Extreme Rainfall Impact Assessment Tools for Adaptation

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 15:22:58 BST

This rapid project developed a post-event damage survey template, risk pathway scenario tool and workshop for Historic Environment Scotland and wider heritage sector partners.

Resilience and risk database

Mon, 02 Nov 2020 11:27:00 GMT

A project to design and compile two databases. One of institutions and courses offering professional and/or academic qualifications and training in resilience, risk and related topics, and the other, a database of researchers working in areas related to resilience, risk and related topics.

Charting the changes in Scottish Government resilience policy over the last 30 years

Sun, 01 Nov 2020 11:54:00 GMT

This project charts the changes in Scottish Government resilience policy over the last 30 years. Then, for the same period, reviews the impact of any practical solutions and tools introduced as a consequence of policy change, focused on making communities more resilient.

Literature review on the meaning and role of mutual aid in Scotland as a response to natural hazards.

Mon, 02 Nov 2020 14:43:00 GMT

Project looking into what mutual aid is, how it works and who is involved.

Literature review of the role of the Third Sector (advantages, barriers etc) in respect of their response to natural hazards.

Mon, 02 Nov 2020 14:59:00 GMT

To understand the hierarchy of the third sector in Scotland and how these organisations work together.

Resilience Education Initiative 2020

Mon, 02 Apr 2018 00:00:00 BST

The NCR has part funded another year of the post of Community Resilience Development Officer post at Education Scotland to work with the resilience community and teachers to embed resilience in the Curriculum for Excellence.

Evaluating the benefit of structural health monitoring for improving bridge resilience against scour

Mon, 02 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT

This project aims to develop a framework for evaluating the benefits of scour monitoring for early warning and risk management of bridges, and to identify optimal measurement techniques.

When does response end and recovery begin? Exploring preparation and planning to support resilient recovery. Phase 1

Mon, 02 Sep 2019 00:00:00 BST

The focus of this project is the influence that resilience practitioners and emergency responders can have upon a community’s process of recovery in the aftermath of a natural hazard emergency.

When does response end and recovery begin? Exploring preparation and planning to support resilient recovery. Phase 2

Mon, 02 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT

This project seeks to provide clarity for resilience practitioners on the response and recovery phase of the resilience cycle. It is intended to support planning and preparation for long-term recovery by disentangling roles and responsibilities associated with both responses to an event and recovery from it.

Climate Change, Climate Justice & Mental Health Knowledge Exchange event

Tue, 19 Mar 2019 10:00:00 GMT

Knowledge exchange event held by the Centre for Climate Justice, Glasgow Caledonian University.

Flooding Good Practice Guidance

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 00:00:00 BST

The ‘Good Practice Guidance’ is a series of ‘pick-up and go’ resources to help support those working with flood risk communities before, during and after a flood event, designed and put together by the Scottish Flood Forum (SFF).

TCV flooding resilience

Mon, 02 Apr 2018 00:00:00 BST

This project was led by The Conservation Volunteers (TCV). It aimed to build community awareness and confidence in the context of resilience.

CASE STUDY - Developing a Digital Flood Evacuation Model for Climate Change and Wellbeing

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 00:00:00 BST

This project developed a 3D virtual reality model to simulate the flooding of an urban space in real time. Showing how a built-up area is likely to flood can help emergency services, local governments and community leaders to consider how a flood might unfold in their local area, helping them to be better prepared for future contingencies in the event of extreme weather.

Hot spots of community resilience in Scotland

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 00:00:00 BST

This research builds on ongoing work around community resilience in Scotland around social and economic issues, which project team members call everyday resilience. The purpose of this research is to identify areas of Scotland that have a high resilience to threats of everyday resilience through the identification of infrastructures associated with everyday resilience.

The Role of Local Business in Community Resilience to Natural Hazards

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 00:00:00 BST

This research project, carried out by researchers at the University of Glasgow’s Dumfries Campus, sought to explore the role that businesses play in community resilience planning and response, through a national survey of community groups across Scotland and interviews with community representatives, businesses and local authority resilience officers.

Building a Movement: Community Development and Community Resilience in Response to Extreme Events

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 00:00:00 BST

This project aimed to develop understanding of the current enactment of community resilience in Scotland through gathering multi-generational, multi-event scenario perspectives and combining these with insight from communities, the voluntary sector and statutory organisations.

Business Engagement in Developing Community Resilience to Natural Hazards

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 14:51:12 BST

This research project, funded by the National Centre for Resilience, sought to explore the role that businesses play in community resilience planning and response, through a national survey of community groups across Scotland and interviews with community representatives, businesses and local authority resilience officers.

Resilience Education Initiative

Mon, 02 Apr 2018 00:00:00 BST

The NCR part funded the post of Community Resilience Development Officer post at Education Scotland to work with the resilience community and teachers to embed resilience in the Curriculum for Excellence.

Disaster Loss Data Management in Scotland

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 15:18:00 BST

Work carried out by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) into the collecting and managing of disaster loss data.

Resilience from a lived-experience perspective in the regional context of Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 15:29:35 BST

This study explores the meaning of resilience from the perspectives of people with a lived experience of flooding, through the lens of adaptive capacity.

CIRIA Code of Practice for flood resilient properties

Mon, 03 Apr 2017 00:00:00 BST

The Code of Practice advises on the methods and standards for property level protection against flooding.

Level 11 Resilience Module

Mon, 03 Apr 2017 00:00:00 BST

Development of the Level 11 module ‘Understanding the Resilience Context’ of the Resilience Management and Leadership Master’s programme at Perth College UHI.

NHP Resources

Mon, 03 Apr 2017 00:00:00 BST

A compilation of resources and documentation detailing natural hazard and impact advice, based on the outcomes of the Natural Hazards Partnership to date.

Event Report Text Mining

Mon, 03 Apr 2017 00:00:00 BST

Exploratory text mining work for automating the extraction of relevant hazard impact information from event reports.

Property Flood Resilience Action Plan: Scotland

Mon, 03 Apr 2017 00:00:00 BST

The NCR provided project management support to create the Property Flood Resilience Action Plan: Scotland.

Natural Hazard Fact Sheets

Fri, 01 Apr 2016 00:00:00 BST

We supported the Met Office and their partner organisations in the production of a set of natural hazard overview documents.

CIRINT.NET

Fri, 01 Apr 2016 00:00:00 BST

The Scottish Government Resilient Essential Services and Communities Unit engaged with key EU partners to develop a Critical Infrastructure Resilience International Network CIRINT.NET.

Associations between ambient outdoor temperature and patterns of morbidity and mortality in Scotland

Fri, 01 Apr 2016 00:00:00 BST

This study was designed to plug a gap in understanding of the link, or absence of a link, between heat and cold and public health. If we understand the thresholds where heat and cold affect public health, suitable interventions can be designed and implemented. This will help prepare the population for spells of extreme heat and cold.

Vehicle Overturning Model: forecasting tool

Fri, 01 Apr 2016 00:00:00 BST

The Met Office has developed a tool to predict the likelihood of where and when high winds increase the risk of high sided vehicles overturning.

Development of a Hazard Impact Database

Mon, 13 Jul 2020 00:00:00 BST

The development of a framework to collect hazard impact data for re-use within the Natural Hazard Partnership and wider, and to support objectives in the UN Sendai framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.

Natural Hazard Partnership communication of hazard assessment

Fri, 01 Apr 2016 00:00:00 BST

Liaison with local users of data to clarify communications of wind/surface water flooding/landslide within Daily Hazard Assessment structure.