SmartResilience Podcast
SmartResilience Podcast
Podcast Description
The SmartResilience Podcast explores how organisations can thrive in the face of climate challenges. From extreme weather events to long-term adaptation strategies, each episode dives into practical insights, interviews with industry leaders, and innovative solutions that help businesses build resilience across their assets, operations, and supply chains. Whether you’re in food, healthcare, finance, or infrastructure, you’ll find actionable ideas to navigate risk and lead with confidence in a changing climate.
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The podcast focuses on topics such as climate resilience, adaptation strategies, and sustainability practices, with episodes exploring case studies like Munish Datta's work on the M&S Plan A strategy and its implication for business continuity. Specific content areas include the effects of extreme weather on supply chains and the importance of community-led initiatives in addressing climate risks.
The SmartResilience Podcast explores how organisations can thrive in the face of climate challenges. From extreme weather events to long-term adaptation strategies, each episode dives into practical insights, interviews with industry leaders, and innovative solutions that help businesses build resilience across their assets, operations, and supply chains. Whether you’re in food, healthcare, finance, or infrastructure, you’ll find actionable ideas to navigate risk and lead with confidence in a changing climate.
In this episode of the Smart Resilience Podcast, we are joined by Sam Bower, Head of Sustainability for the Natural Environment at Balfour Beatty. With over 25 years’ experience in nature conservation and infrastructure delivery, Sam shares how ecology, biodiversity and nature-based solutions can be embedded into major construction projects — not as an afterthought, but as a core strategic driver.
From childhood experiences in the woods of Kent to working at the frontline of the construction industry, Sam reflects on his journey and explains why integrating nature into business strategy is essential for tackling the climate and biodiversity crises. The conversation explores biodiversity net gain, nature-based solutions for flood resilience, the challenges of quantifying natural systems in commercial decision-making, and why working with nature is key to long-term economic and societal resilience.
Whether you’re a sustainability professional, engineer, policymaker, or simply curious about how nature and infrastructure can coexist, this episode offers practical insights and a hopeful vision for a more nature-positive future.
SmartResilience’s innovative climate adaptation platform gives your organisation the information it needs to adapt to a more resilient future. From flooding and wildfire to tropical cycles and earthquakes, SmartResilience forecasts emerging climate change threats for robust regulatory reporting and informed strategic planning.We help your busiess comply against TCFD and other reporting standards and advance on your climate adaptation journey.Website: https://smartresilience.co.uk/
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