Karl Astbury

Karl Astbury

Manchester Area, United Kingdom
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Future of Greater Manchester

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As the Program Lead for Climate and Health at the Resilient Cities Network, I'm at the…

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    Resilient Cities Network

    Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom

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    Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom

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    Manchester, United Kingdom

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    Manchester

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    Number One First Street, Manchester

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Education

  • Future of Greater Manchester

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    This course is designed to develop both theoretical and practical management skills in preparation, response and recovery from natural and man-made disasters. The core curriculum combines the development of practical analysis skills to support emergency management policies with an understanding of ethical issues in global humanitarian actions.

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    Activities and Societies: North East Wales Debating Champion; UK finalist in the European Youth Parliament debating competition

Volunteer Experience

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    Honorary Teaching Fellow

    The University of Manchester

    - 3 years 9 months

    Disaster and Humanitarian Relief

    Assisting with the delivery of the EPRR online module for the Master of Public Health postgraduate course within the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health.

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    Young Peoples Support Foundation

    - 3 months

    Social Services

Publications

  • Urban Pulse: Identifying Resilience Solutions at the Intersection of Climate, Health and Equity

    Resilient Cities Network

    With climate change exacerbating health risks—from heat-related illnesses to the spread of vector-borne diseases like dengue—urban areas in particular face increasing challenges. Cities are on the frontline, dealing with these critical issues while tackling inequities that disproportionately impact vulnerable populations, especially in low- and middle-income countries.

    This report, part of the Urban Pulse program, provides comprehensive insights on climate and health priorities…

    With climate change exacerbating health risks—from heat-related illnesses to the spread of vector-borne diseases like dengue—urban areas in particular face increasing challenges. Cities are on the frontline, dealing with these critical issues while tackling inequities that disproportionately impact vulnerable populations, especially in low- and middle-income countries.

    This report, part of the Urban Pulse program, provides comprehensive insights on climate and health priorities, challenges and solutions from a global mixed-methods study. The study was composed of a survey completed by 191 respondents in 118 cities in 52 countries, along with eight in-depth interviews with stakeholders from Africa (Addis Ababa, Cape Town, Lagos), Asia (Semarang, Surat), and Latin America (Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Porto Alegre). Respondents included leaders in city governments and civil society, including community-based, non-profit, and private sector organizations).

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  • RBH Strategy 2022-25: 'Succeeding Together'

    RBH is a mutual housing provider. We are proud to be owned and run by our tenant and employee members. We are stronger together. We are democratic. We seek fairness and equality. We innovate. We build mutual respect.

    In 2021, we held the biggest conversation we’ve ever had with our tenants and employees about what RBH’s priorities should be. In February 2022, our elected tenants and employees on our Representative Body approved our new priorities in a document which we’ve called…

    RBH is a mutual housing provider. We are proud to be owned and run by our tenant and employee members. We are stronger together. We are democratic. We seek fairness and equality. We innovate. We build mutual respect.

    In 2021, we held the biggest conversation we’ve ever had with our tenants and employees about what RBH’s priorities should be. In February 2022, our elected tenants and employees on our Representative Body approved our new priorities in a document which we’ve called “Succeeding Together”. These new priorities apply from 1st April 2022 – 10 years after we first became an independent mutual housing society. As part of this conversation, our Representatives have also refreshed and reviewed our values.

    Our priorities are:
    - Pride in quality homes and good services - providing great places to live for people and communities to succeed is at the core of what we do
    - Pride in our people and communities - we have a significant role in developing Rochdale Borough as a great place to grow up, grow a career, and grow older
    - Pride in our society - we want to write a new chapter in Rochdale’s co-operative story - and write it together with our members

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  • Greater Manchester Resilience Strategy 2020-2030

    The Greater Manchester Resilience Strategy is the first of its kind for Greater Manchester. It builds on nearly two decades of multi-agency working to plan and to respond to civil risks and emergencies within the context of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004. It incorporates learning from efforts in Greater Manchester and across the world to reduce the risk of disasters and crises. It has been created using the processes and tools developed by 100 Resilient Cities (now the Resilient Cities…

    The Greater Manchester Resilience Strategy is the first of its kind for Greater Manchester. It builds on nearly two decades of multi-agency working to plan and to respond to civil risks and emergencies within the context of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004. It incorporates learning from efforts in Greater Manchester and across the world to reduce the risk of disasters and crises. It has been created using the processes and tools developed by 100 Resilient Cities (now the Resilient Cities Network) and the United Nation's Making Cities Resilient (MCR) initiative both of which aim to catalyse the strengthening of urban resilience in our cities and city-regions.

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  • Summary Report of Webinar on It is all about Disaster Risk Governance

    Global Disaster Resilience Centre (2020, October 14), It is all about Disaster Risk Governance [Webinar]. University of Huddersfield.

    In this webinar, we explored how to better manage the current crisis and better prepare for the next. The guest panel presented a global perspective on the latest research and analysis through short presentations and an interactive discussion. They offered wider policy perspectives, but also insights from Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the UK at the national and local levels, and links to science and technology. This report summarises the contributions from an expert panel and common threads to…

    In this webinar, we explored how to better manage the current crisis and better prepare for the next. The guest panel presented a global perspective on the latest research and analysis through short presentations and an interactive discussion. They offered wider policy perspectives, but also insights from Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the UK at the national and local levels, and links to science and technology. This report summarises the contributions from an expert panel and common threads to emerge from those and the subsequent discussions, including responses to questions from the audience.

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  • Evolution of disaster risk governance in Greater Manchester: a case study from the UK

    Procedia Engineering, Elsevier

    In the face of 21st century challenges including globalisation, urbanisation, climate change and anti-microbial resistance, disaster risk governance must ensure top-level buy-in from city leaders. The Sendai Framework calls for focused action in strengthening disaster risk governance. Over the last decade Greater Manchester has transformed its disaster risk governance to reflect a more sophisticated understanding of resilience. At the start of this century, the UK experienced a series of crises…

    In the face of 21st century challenges including globalisation, urbanisation, climate change and anti-microbial resistance, disaster risk governance must ensure top-level buy-in from city leaders. The Sendai Framework calls for focused action in strengthening disaster risk governance. Over the last decade Greater Manchester has transformed its disaster risk governance to reflect a more sophisticated understanding of resilience. At the start of this century, the UK experienced a series of crises that led to modernisation of its civil protection arrangements. The Civil Contingencies Act 2004 enabled Greater Manchester to formalise existing partnership structures to strengthen the local platform for disaster risk reduction. This created the multi-sectoral, multi-stakeholder Greater Manchester Resilience Forum which coordinates civil protection activities for nearly 3 million residents. The UK recognises that local and national platforms need to work together and this alignment is delivered through a specialist Government team working closely with the Forum. In 2014 Greater Manchester joined the UNISDR’s Making Cities Resilient Campaign. Use of the campaign’s toolkit led to a review of governance and renewed trans-disciplinary collaboration across multiple thematic local partnerships. A role model city within the campaign, Greater Manchester also participated in an EU-funded project (USCORE) to pilot the UNISDR’s Disaster Resilience Scorecard. Outcomes highlighted the importance of place-based assurance together with relevant metrics to inform decisions. This case study draws on this experience of strengthening disaster risk governance arrangements, a journey which will continue as Greater Manchester works with the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities initiative.

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  • CWA 37100 City Resilience Development – Operational Guidance

    CEN (European Committee for Standardization)

    This CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA)defines an operational framework for cities that provides guidance on local resilience planning and supports their efforts in building resilience. The document is intended to be used by policy and decision-makers at city level and councilors working for climate change adaptation and resilience in their city, as well as by any other city stakeholder working on resilience (for examples but not limited to: critical infrastructure managers, service providers…

    This CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA)defines an operational framework for cities that provides guidance on local resilience planning and supports their efforts in building resilience. The document is intended to be used by policy and decision-makers at city level and councilors working for climate change adaptation and resilience in their city, as well as by any other city stakeholder working on resilience (for examples but not limited to: critical infrastructure managers, service providers, emergency services, the media, civil society associations, non-governmental organizations, academic and research institutions as well as consultancies). The Operational Guidance consists of five steps that have to be repeated regularly. The five steps implemented in a full cycle are the following: Baseline Review, Risk Awareness, Resilience Strategy, Implementation and Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting.

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Projects

  • Urban Pulse: Climate, Health & Equity in Action

  • Resilience for Communities - Greater Manchester

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    The Uscore2 project aims to design and test a generic, practical, city-to-city, disaster risk reduction peer review tool for cities across EU member states and beyond via the UNISDR Making Cities Resilient campaign (MCR).

    I led the development of module 8(b), looking at assessing public health and DRR integration at a city level.

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Honors & Awards

  • Employee Ownership Association Best Story Award (Partners Pick)

    The Employee Ownership Association

    EO Stories celebrates the stories of employee-owned businesses and the impacts they are having on employees, the performance of the business, and on the economy and society.

    The Partner’s Pick award was chosen out of all 28 entries by a panel of judges from our Celebration Dinner sponsors GLIDE and Gripple, who picked Rochdale Boroughwide Housing.

    In its EO Stories entry in the good governance category, the UK’s first tenant and employee co-owned mutual housing society showcased…

    EO Stories celebrates the stories of employee-owned businesses and the impacts they are having on employees, the performance of the business, and on the economy and society.

    The Partner’s Pick award was chosen out of all 28 entries by a panel of judges from our Celebration Dinner sponsors GLIDE and Gripple, who picked Rochdale Boroughwide Housing.

    In its EO Stories entry in the good governance category, the UK’s first tenant and employee co-owned mutual housing society showcased how its model places tenants, employees and communities at the heart of its organisation.

    Its Representative Body, made up of elected tenant and employee representatives, “sits at the apex of our governance, and means we get true bottom-up decision making”.

    Chair of GLIDE Michael Hodgson, who also sits on the EOA Membership Council, said: “Rochdale Boroughwide Housing stood out to us for many reasons. We talk about EO being a force for good and this organisation is exactly that. It’s bringing people together in a meaningful way and in a sector where stakeholders don’t always get the support they deserve.

    “Its governance has allowed for positive representation of voices which has delivered eye-catching and hugely important benefit at a time when it’s really needed.

    “The words passion, focus, collaboration and pride struck a chord for us and are clearly central to this organisation’s fantastic success.”

  • Certificate of Commendation

    Assistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey, Greater Manchester Police, Chair of the Greater Manchester Resilience Forum

    Awarded in recognition of outstanding contribution to Greater Manchester's Covid-19 Tactical Coordination Group response

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