2026 CRHNet Symposium

This lightning talk explores why resilience is not just a technical challenge—but a cultural and social one.

Using the Traverse Analytics framework, I briefly describe how climate hazards do not occur in isolation. Instead, they interact dynamically with people, culture, behaviour, and systems of decision‑making. Traditional climate risk approaches often emphasize models, forecasts, and data—important tools, but incomplete on their own.

I will highlight how integrating cultural intelligence—the understanding of how people interpret risk, act under stress, and organize collectively—transforms data into shared situational awareness. This shift enables more culturally aligned risk communication, empowers local action, and reduces cascading impacts across systems.

The talk uses the Traverse Analytics lens—drawing from sport visualization, disaster ecology, and cultural intelligence—to demonstrate how complexity can be translated into insight that communities, businesses, and institutions can actually use.

Ultimately, this is a conversation about collective resilience: how aligning data, culture, and lived experience leads to smarter decisions, stronger systems, and safer communities in a climate‑disrupted world.