- How to define vulnerability? (especially in urban context)
- What can take away agency from people? (e.g. defining them as vulnerable)
- Identifying the trade-offs
- What are the thresholds for different kinds of hazard/risk?
- How the terminology affects how people think/do?
- How to allow/facilitate coordinated self-organisation?
- What kind of information do you need in a crisis?
- Find a standard way of measuring resilience?
- How can we assess the advantages of resilience for different groups/purposes?
- How do we know if resilience measures work?
- How generalisable is learning about resilience?
- How does adaptability work within strict bureaucracies?
- When is “bending the rules” helpful?
- What is a palatable risk?
- How to assess the ability to progress from awareness to preparedness (particularly in vulnerable groups)?
- How to deal with the problem of information overload?
- How to stop people ask stupid questions to you?
- How to facilitate people to ask the right questions?
- What determines what people focus on in terms of possible risks?
- How does resilience and security relate?
- What is the role of the “window of opportunity” in encouraging people to take present action?
- How to deal with compound/cascading risk?
- How does different types of trust affect reactions to crises?
- How to get people to accept less reliability/comfort for more resilience?
- How does social capital and equity relate to resilience? (in disaster recovery context)
- How to look at resilience/crisis/disaster from a non-western viewpoint?
- How different groups can learn from each other?
Brainstorm of the important challenges/opportunities
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