Resilience, Security and Sustainability

Peter Adey, Klaus Dodds and Mike Dolton

From Security to Resilience• How do we govern the future?

• We try to secure it:– Pre-caution

– Pre-emption

– Preparedness• exercise it

Heavy storms have caused extreme flooding in your region, tributaries are overflowing, streets and roads are under-water

The local reservoir is threatening to break its banks

You are members of a Strategic Coordinating Group tasked with managing the potential emergency

what are you going to do now?

Priorities• What might your priorities

be in this situation? – How would you

establish these?

• Who or what might be at risk in this situation? – How would you know?

• What kinds of resources do you think you would need to employ?

Plans and Structures• Consult your Emergency Plans drawn from a

continuous assessment of risks– Community Risk Registers

• If you’re a strategic decision maker you need to liaise with those who will operationalize your decisions (silver) or tactical level

• You might require resources and coordination from a higher regional or national level, COBRA

• You might require expert resources and information from a variety of places in order to understand the complex consequences of this event

MSc Geopolitics and Security - option

Specific option, ‘Resilience and the Governing of Emergency’

• History• Political-economic context:

neoliberalism, complexity sciences, deregulation and privatisation

• Policies, plans and the State• Practicalities

• Resilience is relevant for practically any organisation

and many careers

Blog

rhulgeopolitics.wordpress.com

Championing Security and Sustainability – Klaus Dodds

Spaces of Security and insecurity

Spaces of sustainability and un-sustainability

Bringing security and sustainability together?

Arctic Futures

MScSustainability and Management

Mike Dolton

‘Stabilisation levels and probability ranges for temperature increases’

‘Types of impacts that could be experienced as the world comes into equilibrium with more greenhouse gases.’ (Stern, 2005;v)

Level or stock of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere:

Pre-industrial revolution 280 ppm

2005: 430 ppm

2035: 550 ppm?

Governance and the ‘Triple Bottom Line’

Governance of the commons

Global Risk Society ... What if low level radiation made you itch?

Pripyat post-ChernobylFukushima 2011

From CSR to community volunteering ...

Global solutions …..

The voles are doing well… humans? 42 to 32000 deaths? Who knows?

Thank you

Peter Adey (peter.adey@rhul.ac.uk) Klaus Dodds (k.dodds@rhul.ac.uk) and Mike

Dolton (m.dolton@rhul.ac.uk)