Alessia MorrisNational Hazards Policy & NCR SponsorshipResilience Division - Scottish Government

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BBC Scotland - 3rd January 2014

National Centre for Resilience: why?

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National Centre for Resilience:what is it?

Crichton Campus Dumfries

National Centre for Resilience: where?

National Centre for Resilience: why Dumfries?

Ministers &Senior

Officials

CommsSGLOs

SGPolicy Areas

On-Call Officers

GLOs

PWSMet Office

National Centre for Resilience: resilience landscape & who may be involved

Head of Emergencies &Response Team

SGoRR Support

TeamRRPs/LRPs

Partnership working in support of emergency

planning and response

Natural Hazards

Response

Training

Critical Infrastructure

Resilience

Research

Community Resilience

National Centre for Resilience: 6 strategic priorities

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National Centre for Resilience: a “virtuous circle”

Users’ needs

Best practice

PolicyResearch

Info brokering

Comms

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National Centre for Resilience: opportunities

• Share existing knowledge and create “new” knowledge

• Interface between science, government/ policy-makers, practitioners and academics

• Develop and share best practice across Scotland• Exploit local experience of multi-agency

arrangements to build national resilience• Create new communities of interest and spur a

“virtuous circle” for best practice, explore new issues, showcase beyond Scotland

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National Centre for Resilience: challenges

• Ensure the Centre complements other initiatives, including other resilience projects

• A national resource, building national capabilities -not just a resource for Dumfries & Galloway

• Engagement from wider resilience community

• Optimise the business model and ensure long term sustainability

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Scottish Ministers

Programme BoardStakeholders

Programme Office Interfacing Projects

Work Group:Governance

National Centre for Resilience: Implementation Programme - Governance Framework

Work Group:Research &

Training

Work Group:Comms

Work Group: Response

Work Group:

Hazard & Risks

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National Centre for Resilience: delivery partners and stakeholders

• British Geological Survey

• Dumfries and Galloway Council

• Met Office• Natural Hazards

Partnership• Police Scotland• Royal Voluntary

Services• Scottish Government

• Scottish Ambulance Service• Scottish Fire and Rescue

Service• Scottish Flood Forum• Scottish Funding Council• SEPA• ClimateXChange/SNIFFER• Edinburgh Centre for

Carbon Innovation (ECCI)• Universities (Glasgow,

Dundee)• The Crichton Institute12

National Centre for Resilience: key features

• Core staffing presence at the Crichton Campus, Dumfries

• BUT Centre to operate largely on a “network” basis involving a wide range of organisations across Scotland

• Scottish Government and Scottish Funding Council as “core” funders

• Formal Ministerial opening on 21 March 2016

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National Centre for Resilience: early outputs

Research

• Gap analysis

• Prioritisation

Natural Hazards

• Science Notes

• Landslides/High Wind Impact Modelling

• Care of the vulnerable (PARD)

• Community Resilience Flooding “framework” Toolkit

• International Engagement

Comms

• Identity

• Purpose

• Engagement

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Improved Forecasting

Building longer term social resilience

Person At Risk Database

BEFORE DURING LONG TERM

More targeted response…

National Centre for Resilience: what does success look like?

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National Centre for Resilience: highlights• Centre’s Manager & interim researchers in

place – on-going recruitment of other staff• Final governance arrangements, e.g.

accountability and reporting• Long term strategy and work plan• On-going capacity building, awareness

raising, collaborative projects, events etc.

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National Centre for Resilience: Sponsor Team

• Alessia Morris, Resilience Division - alessia.morris@gov.scot

• Alan Robertson, Resilience Division - alan.robertson@gov.scot

• More information:http://www.readyscotland.org/ready-government/ncr/

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Jim Sharp

Met OfficeChair NCR Hazards and Risk Action Group

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National Centre for Resilience:Action-Groups

4 working groups: Hazard & Risks – Understanding risks, threats,

impact & identification of solutions

Research & Training – current research, gap analysis, funding streams, etc.

Response – Building capacity to prepare, respond and recover

Comms – positioning vision with communities19

*Severe Weather

*Severe Weather

*Severe Weather

*Severe Weather

*Severe Weather

*Flooding

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*Landslide

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*Earthquake/Tsuna

mi

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*Avalanche

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*Space Weather

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*Air Quality

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*Volcanic Ash

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*CBRN Release

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*Wildfire

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*Climate Hazards

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National Centre for Resilience: Working Group Activities

• Research Group: Analysis, Gaps, Prioritisation

• Hazards & Risks Group: Science Notes, Landslide and High Wind impacts. Steering the Development of Enhanced Capabilities.

• Communications Group: Identity, Purpose, Engagement

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