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How can a focus on socio-technical vulnerability and uncertainty make cyber security more resilient? In this article, we provide a conceptual discussion of how to increase cyber resilience. First, we show how cyber security and resilience thinking co-evolved through their connection to critical infrastructures, and how the ensuing dominant technical focus inevitably always falls short due to the diverse societal values that underpin their critical social functions. We argue that a sole focus on aggregate systems neglects the important differences in how cyber threats are experienced and dealt with by individuals. Second, we draw on insights from social resilience and disaster management literature to establish a better link between individuals and cyber systems. We focus on two key aspects of cyber security that highlight its social nature: vulnerability and uncertainty. Instead of thinking of cyber security as a “technical problem + humans,” we suggest cyber security should be conceptualized as a “social problem + technology.” We conclude by highlighting three ways forward for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners: interdisciplinary research, public debate about a set of normative questions, and the need for an uncertainty discourse in politics and policymaking., Journal of Risk Research, 26 (7), ISSN:1366-9877, ISSN:1466-4461

Despite growing awareness and research into experiences of gender and sexual minorities, their needs and capacities are often overlooked in crisis response and disaster risk reduction. Billy Tusker Haworth, Scott McKinnon and CSS' Christine Eriksen summarize extant knowledge and identify areas for growth in the field of disaster geographies., Trotz des wachsenden Bewusstseins und der zunehmenden Erforschung der Erfahrungen geschlechtlicher und sexueller Minderheiten werden ihre Bedürfnisse und Fähigkeiten bei der Krisenbewältigung und der Eindämmung von Katastrophenrisiken häufig übersehen. Billy Tusker Haworth, Scott McKinnon und CSS Forscherin Christine Eriksen zeigen den derzeitigen Wissensstand auf und identifizieren Bereiche, die in der Katastrophengeografie noch ausgebaut werden müssen., Geography Compass, 16 (11), ISSN:1749-8198

Die Auswirkungen von Katastrophen auf Menschen variieren zwischen verschiedenen sozialen Gruppen auf verschiedenen räumlichen und zeitlichen Ebenen. In diesem Buchkapitel geben Dale Dominey-Howes, Scott McKinnon, Andrew Gorman-Murray und CSS Forscherin Christine Eriksen einen Überblick über das langsam aufstrebende Forschungsgebiet und analysieren die unterschiedlichen Erfahrungen von Menschen mit diversen sexuellen und genderspezifischen Hintergründen in Bezug auf eine Reihe von Katastrophen, die sich in verschiedenen soziopolitischen Kontexten und insbesondere in Australien und Neuseeland ereignet haben., The effects of disasters on people vary between different social groups at a range of spatial and temporal scales. In this book chapter, Dale Dominey-Howes, Scott McKinnon, Andrew Gorman-Murray and CSS' Christine Eriksen provide an overview of the slowly emerging field of scholarship and analyze the differing experiences of sexual and gender diverse individuals in relation to a series of disasters occurring in different sociopolitical contexts and in Australia and New Zealand in particular., Routledge Handbook of Environmental Hazards and Society, ISBN:978-0-367-42714-6, ISBN:978-1-032-27770-7, ISBN:978-0-367-85458-4

In this paper, we examine the concept of embodied uncertainty by exploring multiple dimensions of uncertainty in the context of risks associated with extreme natural hazards. We highlight a need for greater recognition, particularly by disaster management and response agencies, of uncertainty as a subjective experience for those living at risk. Embodied uncertainty is distinguished from objective uncertainty by the nature of its internalisation at the individual level, where it is subjective, felt and directly experienced. This approach provides a conceptual pathway that sharpens knowledge of the processes that shape how individuals and communities interpret and contextualise risk. The ways in which individual characteristics, social identities and lived experiences shape interpretations of risk are explored by considering embodied uncertainty in four contexts: social identities and trauma, the co-production of knowledge, institutional structures and policy and long-term lived experiences. We conclude by outlining the opportunities that this approach presents, and provide recommendations for further research on how the concept of embodied uncertainty can aid decision-making and the management of risks in the context of extreme natural hazards., Journal of Risk Research, 21 (3), ISSN:1366-9877, ISSN:1466-4461