Dale Sands led AECOM’s collaboration with IBM to develop the Disaster Resilience Scorecard for Cities, a tool for the UNISDR Making Cities Resilient Campaign in which almost 4,000 cities and towns participate.

At present 200 cities are using the Disaster Resilience Scorecard which provides a set of assessments that cover policy and planning, engineering, organizational, financial, social and environmental aspects of disaster resilience at the local level.

Mr. Sands was also principal investigator on evaluating resilience of small- and mid-size businesses in New Orleans eleven years after Hurricane Katrina. He is an elected official in the village of Deer Park, Illinois, where he serves as Village President.

Ms. Herrera, a social and inclusive activist for more than twenty years, has developed more than 500 alliances and led programs that have positively impacted more than 14.1 million people globally through the creation of shared value and the improvement of well-being and quality of life in different communities around the world.

“The private sector has a moral responsibility and a business imperative to reduce risky investments in many areas exposed to earthquakes, tsunamis, storm surges, floods and other hazards. We take our commitment to resilience very seriously and will do whatever we can to minimize exposure and vulnerabilities to disasters” said Ms. Herrera. CEMEX will be a key partner in the launch of the new regional ARISE that will be established this November in Mexico.

The ARISE Advisory Board comprises Ahmed Riad Ali, Estmrarya Management Consulting; Fernando P Britto, AI Systems Research (AISR); Martha Patricia Herrera Gonzalez, CEMEX; Carlo Papa, Enel Foundation; Aris Papadopoulos, Titan America/STET; and Hans T. Sy, SM Prime. Dale Sands, MD Sands Consulting Solutions LLC; Nirankar Saxena, the Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (FICCI); Masato Takamatsu, JTB Tourism Research and Consulting Co.; Sandra Wu, Kokusai Kogyo Co. Ltd.  

Date:

27 Jul 2018

Sources:

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)

Themes:

Civil Society/NGOs, Private Sector, Economics of DRR

Regions:

Africa, Americas, Europe, Asia, Oceania