Resilience
Providing sustainable frameworks for infrastructures and ecosystems at various scales against adverse, disruptive and long-term environmental change.
The Resilience theme is focused on building infrastructures and systems that can withstand and adapt to the profound challenges of environmental degradation and climate change. As societies face increasing threats from biodiversity loss, resource depletion, socio-economic volatility and geopolitical instability, resilience has become essential to safeguarding health, prosperity and sustainability. Our vision is of infrastructures—physical, social and ecological—that are not only robust to shocks but are also adaptive, inclusive and capable of supporting long-term transformation.
We bring together expertise across engineering, natural and social sciences, economics and governance to understand the drivers of vulnerability and risk, and to translate this knowledge into practical solutions. Working with external partners, we develop approaches that integrate disaster response with proactive planning, including vulnerability assessment, risk management, risk transfer and social protection mechanisms. By embedding resilience into infrastructures at local, national and global scales, we aim to reduce exposure to hazards, strengthen adaptive capacity and create pathways for sustainable development in a rapidly changing world.
Resilience Team
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How can we turn ambition into reality?
Manchester research is pioneering, interdisciplinary and – crucially – collaborative. Through our cross-sector partnerships, we catalyse change.
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UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities
UKCRIC is an integrated research capability with an ambition to underpin the renewal, sustainment and improvement of infrastructure and cities in the UK and elsewhere.
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