Today’s annual resilience statement to Parliament offers an important opportunity to take stock of the UK’s progress on resilience. From the perspective of the Centre for Whole of Society Resilience, the key question is not simply what activity has been announced, but whether the UK is becoming better at building resilience as a genuinely whole-of-society capability. That means resilience that is not confined to central government or emergency planning structures, but is shared across...

In a rapidly changing world, urban areas are becoming more complex and influential, yet increasingly vulnerable to challenges like...