Resilience for Sustainability

Resilience is on everybody’s mind these days as we face the serious triple crisis of social inequalities, global warming, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. As we are all in this together, it is urgent to consider how we can build resilience into our economic, social, and environmental systems. With a focus on the quantitative resilience of our national building stock from the building to community scale, the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub has and continues to develop bold approaches to address and identify means of enhancing resilience to advance sustainable development. In this webinar, we share recent developments in quantifying the resilience of buildings with respect to a number of extreme events, including hurricanes, precipitation flooding, and wildfires. Key findings of large-scale simulations combined with economic and social census data and modeling will be shared, which all show that resilience is not a commodity but an integral condition for the sustainable development of our societies.

 

This webinar will be presented by CSHub Faculty Director Franz-Josef Ulm.