In “The Fifth Element”, Korben Dallas is visited by a flying street food stall at his apartment window. Only one of any number of flying cars – including the one…
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Adaptive Planning in National Infrastructure
SAMI have long advocated the development of Adaptive Plans as a means of developing “robust decisions in uncertain times”. The concept is explained in a blogpost from January 2023 –…
Limits to modelling
September 2023 was the hottest September on record, following the hottest August and the hottest July. It wasn’t just a bit hotter – it was fully 0.5˚˚ C hotter, a…
Megatrends and supply chains
We have seen how the Russian invasion of Ukraine caused a spike in oil prices and a rapid re-alignment of European energy supply chains. In what other ways will geo-political…
China – A Superpower’s Growing Pains
In January 2022, we published a blog looking at possible futures for China. This was part of a series of blogs based on the scenarios developed as part of the…
New National Risk Register announced.
The Government has formally announced and published an updated version of the National Risk Register. It is the external version of the National Security Risk Assessment, and provides the government’s…