CHIEF RESILIENT OFFICER | CRO MAGAZINE
The Chief Resilience Officer — 2015
BY LOU CASABIANCA CRO Magazine is dedicated to providing a platform for the emergence of the Chief Resilience Officer (CRO). We see the CRO's role and responsibilities extending from government into and across corporate, institutional and community domains. This means that over the next few years a whole new level of sustainable management and planning will be integrated into the day-to-day operations of virtually every viable government agency, organization and institution. As the career path and profession of the Chief Resilience Officer emerges into the context of 21st century socioeconomics and urban living, we have identified the need for a market leading magazine serving CROs. As local, state, national and global organizations prepare to hire their CROs, we believe there is a need for a business intelligence network and knowledge platform to support this emerging professional community.
As new paradigm solutionaries, we have identified three primary solutions that we are proactively bringing to this community:
Effective CROs perform all these functions, helping their cities manage their own complexities to make resilience efforts more impactful, and collaborating externally to identify and integrate lessons other cities have learned, so solutions scale globally. The CRO is instrumental to how 100 Resilient Cities is helping cities address the challenges of complexity and scalability, and thus how they will contribute to the evolution of a long-lasting global community of practice around urban resilience. This is why 100RC provides financial support to fund the position of the CRO for two years. As we look forward to selecting our next 33 cities, (link to challenge) we are eager to see what the next cohort of CROs brings to the network and to the local and global practice of urban resilience. We invite you to join the CRO | Resilient Cities does, take a moment to meet a couple of the amazing CROs our cities have in place. |
What a Chief Resilience Officer Does
BY MICHAEL BERKOWITZ At 100 Resilient Cities, we believe that one critical step cities can take to facilitate their resilience building is to hire a Chief Resilience Officer (CRO). The CRO is an innovative position in government that ideally reports directly to the city’s chief executive, and acts as the city's point person for resilience building. But what exactly does that mean? As we continue to work with cities to hire their CROs, we thought it would be good to go into a little more detail. First, let's start by taking a quick look at two of the major problems we’re trying to solve:
The Chief Resilience Officer is the centerpiece of 100RC’s vision for helping cities deal with both of these challenges, while empowering them to develop improved urban resilience. To be effective in this instrumental role, a CRO:
The CRO is instrumental to how 100 Resilient Cities is helping cities address the challenges of complexity and scalability, and thus how they will contribute to the evolution of a long-lasting global community of practice around urban resilience. This is why 100RC provides financial support to fund the position of the CRO for two years. As we look forward to selecting our next 33 cities, (link to challenge) we are eager to see what the next cohort of CROs brings to the network and to the local and global practice of urban resilience. Now that you know a bit about what a CRO does, take a moment to meet a couple of the amazing CROs our cities have in place. |
Resilient Cities Global Environmental Data & Analysis
A planetary-scale platform for environmental data and analysis we are working to join forces with the Google Earth Engine Team to leverage the capabilities of their massive geographical knowledgebase in support of global CROs and Resilient Cities Managers.
Our goal is to support Resilient Cities Stakeholders in working with the Google Earth Engine Team to develop, access and run algorithms on the Earth Engine data archive and parallel processing platform to document and monitor resilience issue like climate change, tidal inundation, flooding, drought, etc., in stakeholder cities.
Project goals will allow us to provide a timely and critical service to CROs and Resilient Cities stakeholders by selectively leveraging the world's largest satellite image database — including trillions of scientific measurements dating back over 40 years, For the first time, it makes these assets available online with tools for resilience-focused independent researchers, NGOs, scientists, and government agencies to mine this massive warehouse of data to detect changes, map trends and quantify differences on the Earth's surface. Resilience-related applications include: classifying land cover, detecting deforestation, estimating forest biomass and carbon, identifyand mapping the world’s roadless areas.
To learn more, view product videos and the Featured Gallery (below). Or visit the Data Catalog to explore our archive of satellite imagery. Certain features (such as data download) are restricted to members of our trusted tester program.
Earth Engine platform, let us know.
Our goal is to support Resilient Cities Stakeholders in working with the Google Earth Engine Team to develop, access and run algorithms on the Earth Engine data archive and parallel processing platform to document and monitor resilience issue like climate change, tidal inundation, flooding, drought, etc., in stakeholder cities.
Project goals will allow us to provide a timely and critical service to CROs and Resilient Cities stakeholders by selectively leveraging the world's largest satellite image database — including trillions of scientific measurements dating back over 40 years, For the first time, it makes these assets available online with tools for resilience-focused independent researchers, NGOs, scientists, and government agencies to mine this massive warehouse of data to detect changes, map trends and quantify differences on the Earth's surface. Resilience-related applications include: classifying land cover, detecting deforestation, estimating forest biomass and carbon, identifyand mapping the world’s roadless areas.
To learn more, view product videos and the Featured Gallery (below). Or visit the Data Catalog to explore our archive of satellite imagery. Certain features (such as data download) are restricted to members of our trusted tester program.
Earth Engine platform, let us know.