Archives: Things We Like
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WasteWater
Climate Risk Informed Decision Analysis (CRIDA) provides stepwise planning guidance for water resources planners, managers, and engineers to implement robust water management as promoted by the AGWA network — particularly for water managers working in the developing world. CRIDA is specifically designed to support the implementation of effective decisions under conditions of deep uncertainty. The scope is for practitioners working on site specific problem solving, such as water shortages and drought at a specific geographical locations in developing and highly vulnerable regions of the world.
[ Report / Tool ]
Cross-Sector
This paper proposes a framework for defining risk metrics to capture climate resilience in infrastructure assets. It first outlines the risks that infrastructure is exposed to under a future of climate change, before summarising some of the current approaches used by large investment organisations to measure the resilience of this infrastructure. Finally, the paper proposes a method to develop a framework for risk metrics that build on these approaches.
[ Report ]
AcademiaCross-Sector
regulation
This paper recognised that an understanding of infrastructure resilience requires an understanding of the work that institutions do to produce infrastructure change. It divides the resilience work of institutions into three types: operational, regulatory, and constitutional. A proposed framework that incorporates the types of resilience work done by institutions, scales, objectives, and uncertainties is presented.
[ Journal Article ]
Cross-Sector
standards, sustainable development
This book focuses on the enhancements that are needed in the design and construction of buildings and lifeline systems to support a community’s social stability, economic vitality, and environmental sustainability. It provides the basis of a new approach that will be of interest to engineers, economists, planners, and government officials.
[ Book / e-Book ]
GovernmentPolicy
government
Based on an international survey, this OECD report analyses the progressive shift of critical infrastructure policies from asset protection to system resilience. The findings are reflected in a proposed Policy Toolkit for the Governance of Critical Infrastructure Resilience, which can guide governments in taking a more coherent, preventive approach to protecting and sustaining essential services.
[ Publication ]
CitiesCross-Sector
policy, sustainability, urban
This perspective paper explores how many sustainability goals contrast, or even challenge efforts to improve resilience. The authors propose a new framework that resolves current contradictions and tensions, which will significantly help urban policy and implementation processes in addressing new challenges and contributing to global sustainability in the urban century.
[ Journal Article ]
Academia
climate change, policy, risk assessment
This paper asks three guiding research questions: What does urban infrastructure resilience really mean? What are the most common research topics connected to urban infrastructure resilience? How can humanity further improve urban infrastructure resilience from a sustainable development planning perspective?
[ Article ]
Cross-Sector
Discusses a multidisciplinary framework focused on planning theory, sociological risk approach, and knowledge management . Outlines the resilience concept that is applied to the entire PPRR (prevision-prevention-response-recovery) chain.
[ Book ]
Water
Watershare is a worldwide network of water research organisations and utilities dedicated to applying global expertise to master local water challenges. Member experts collaborate in developing knowledge and science-based tools. The experts then apply this expertise in tackling a wide variety of water issues in their regions.
[ Platform ]
Water
The Zurich Flood Resilience Measurement for Communities (FRMC) was created by Zurich Insurance in 2013 and is an innovation in community flood resilience theory and practice. It allows users to generate evidence about the ways in which a given area or community are already resilient to floods, as well as providing a guide to further develop this resilience.
[ Website ]
Academia
funds, global, mapping, networks, organisations, programmes, regional, resilience
Although it was originally posted in March 2018, we only recently stumbled across this very useful list of global and regional initiatives that either have a focus on resilience or cover some aspect of resilience so it deserves a mention now!
[ Fact Sheet / Reference ]
Cross-Sector
climate change, government, resources, state
We’re always thinking about impact and how to disseminate and share our work. Our friends in California shared this useful resource for climate-resilient infrastructure material and climate change more generally.
[ Website ]
CitiesFinance
cities, framework, insurance, SDGs, sustainable development goals
It was interesting to read this report and consider how the SDGs might change insurance of critical infrastructure. It sets out a global action framework for the insurance industry to help make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable in line with UN Sustainable Development Goal 11
[ Guidance / Report ]
Finance
criteria, economics, incentivising, investments, rating
David Singleton, Chairman of the Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia (ISCA) considers how the launch of v2.0 of its Rating Scheme will provide input into how we should best plan, design and operate infrastructure, and look beyond purely the economic value of projects.
[ Journal Article ]
Cross-SectorEngineering
condition, infrastructure, performance, rating, report
The American Society of Civil Engineers’ annual ‘Infrastructure report card‘ provides a comprehensive assessment of America’s infrastructure, and tells us that the US infrastructure stock scores a D+.
[ Report ]
Cities
city planning, project life cycle, resilience thinking, stress, urban
Ernst & Young’s report in partnership with 100 Resilient Cities, looks at how cities can build resilience thinking into their infrastructure projects.
[ Article / Research ]
Cross-Sector
disaster, hurricane, rebuilding, recovery
UN Development Programme’s thoughts on bridging humanitarian needs with long-term resilience in Dominica looking back to Category 5 Hurricane Maria which struck Dominica in 2017 wreaking unimaginable disaster.
[ Article ]
Technology
For People in Need (PIN) in Cambodia, technology is an essential tool for building resilience. Through the use of innovative and accessible technologies, we prioritise effectiveness and efficiency, optimise resources and increase the impact, reach and pace of our development interventions.
[ Article ]
Cross-SectorEngineering
ageing, build back better, disaster, failure, hurricanes, rebuilding
Zurich Insurance’s report looks at the example of Puerto Rico’s aging infrastructure, severely damaged by recent hurricanes, which offers lessons on how to rebuild aging and failing infrastructure across America.
[ Report ]
Cities
economic development, federal, government, housing, infrastructure, public safety.
This report by 100 Resilient Cities, Enterprise Community Partners, and Rebuild By Design offers a menu of federal recommendations organized into five chapters focusing on infrastructure, housing, economic development and public safety.
[ Report ]
Cross-Sector
building resilience, natural disasters
A report by Deloitte Access Economics who examines the impact of natural disasters on people, the environment and our communities in a series of reports for the Australian Business Roundtable for Disaster Resilience and Safer Communities.
[ Report ]
Academia
interdependencies, optimising, visualisation
Some interesting research going on at Imperial College London bringing together interests in the visualization of complex engineering projects, and interests in interdependencies across different kinds of infrastructure systems, towards systems engineering in a human-natural environment.
[ Project / Research ]
Engineering
framework, government, initiatives, productivity
Organisations from all levels of the supply chain agree that the infrastructure sector’s current operating model is broken. The Institution of Civil Engineers has launched Project 13 in order to change this. The website includes tools, resources and case studies.
[ Website ]
Academia
interdependency, model, modelling, planning
We liked the CIRI webinar on ‘Dynamic resiliency modelling and planning for interdependent critical infrastructures’ which is relevant to our outcome statement on dynamic performance based design. The presentation can be downloaded here.
[ Video ]
Cross-Sector
government, study
As part of the Autumn 2018 Budget statement in the UK, the National Infrastructure Commission announced a study on the resilience of the UK’s infrastructure systems. The study will consider what action government should take to ensure that infrastructure can cope with future changes, disruptions, shocks and accidents.
[ Project / Research / Website ]
Cross-Sector
strategy
New South Wales government’s publication of its Critical Infrastructure Resilience Strategy, encouraging leaders in business and government to support communities by improving critical infrastructure resilience. They say ‘A state-wide resilience strategy will help keep the lights on, help keep water running, and help people and goods flow through our transport and trade routes, even in emergencies.’
[ Policy ]
Finance
benefits, economic, financial, investment, natural, social, value
To implement sustainable investment decisions it is essential that the world can deliver social and natural benefits alongside economic and financial value. This Arup paper challenges conventional thinking and shows that through a Total Value approach we can close the value gap and drive change at scale.
[ Paper ]
Cross-Sector
cities, cultural, demand, economic, future-proofing, physical, social, stress
In the October 2018 edition of ‘Voices on Infrastructure’ series, the Global Infrastructure Initiative by McKinsey and Company published their ‘Future-proofing infrastructure in a fast-changing world’ report, with insights from organisations and industry experts.
[ Report ]
Food
export, food, shipping, trade
The ability of global trade to feed the world is one of the great success stories of the past generation. Shippers and exporters have become better and better at getting affordable food from places of surplus to regions of scarcity. But the planet is at rising risk of choking on its good fortune.
[ Article ]
Engineering
adaptive design, infrastructure analysis, risk management
The American Society of Civil Engineers published a new manual of practice on ‘Climate Resilient Infrastructure: Adaptive design and risk management’.
[ Book ]
Engineering
hazards, infrastructure, policy, probabilistic, quantification, risk assessment
The Institution of Civil Engineers has published a new e-book of the textbook ‘Critical Infrastructures Resilience: Policy Engineering and Principles’ authored by CEE Professor Auroop Ganguly, CEE PhD student Udit Bhatia, and Political Science Professor and Director of the Global Resilience Institute, Stephen E. Flynn.
[ Book / e-Book ]
Academia
European Union, model, Nordic, strategy
This journal article talks about the strategies and conceptual development of some European Nordic Countries to resilience for critical infrastructure. Then it highlights how their approach has a better starting point that most of the EU.
[ Article / Journal Article ]
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