From Disaster Resilience to Regeneration
While resilience is increasingly recognized as a fundamental pillar of disaster preparedness, it cannot alone guarantee thriving communities, healthy ecosystems, or long-term prosperity. Around the world, governments, businesses, and communities are beginning to ask a more ambitious question: how can resilience become a catalyst for regeneration?
This panel explores the evolving relationship between resilience, recovery, and regeneration through the lenses of community resilience, development, and economic systems. Bringing together leaders from engineering, community planning, regenerative development, and supply chain resilience, the panel will discuss how communities can evolve from merely withstanding disruptions to functionally recovering.
Panelists will discuss ways for resilience of interconnected systems to be measured and translated into action, catalysts that can shape community outcomes, and regenerative approaches to unlock long-term value creation. Using examples from infrastructure, communities, supply chains, and urban development, the session will explore practical pathways for building places that not only recover from disasters but emerge stronger because of them.
Panelists
Judith Mitrani-Reiser, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Sophie Punte, Life-links/Smart Freight Center, Netherlands
John W. Van de Lindt, Colorado State University, USA
Diane Binder, Regenopolis, France