Adaptive Pathways for Resilient Infrastructure
Today, uncertainty is increasing in the external environment. This is characterized by climate change and disaster risks, dynamic geopolitical situations, market conditions and changing behavior of people. Building disaster and climate resilient infrastructure systems is essential for long-term sustainable development. However, this requires societies to address uncertainties and to understand the causes and impacts of disasters through holistic, systemic, and multi-disciplinary analysis. It also requires making robust decisions and shifting to more dynamic planning processes to achieve reliability of services under acute shocks and stresses from climate change and disasters.
This special issue, sponsored by the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI), seeks to identify gaps and highlight solutions related to the uptake and implementation of resilient infrastructure systems that work towards long-term sustainability in the face of disasters and climate change. This special issue presents a collection of evidence-based science, case-studies, and literature review, targeted towards policymakers and practitioners.
The Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) is a partnership of national governments, UN agencies and programmes, multilateral development banks and financing mechanisms, the private sector, and knowledge institutions that aims to promote the resilience of new and existing infrastructure systems to climate and disaster risks in support of sustainable development. CDRI promotes rapid development of resilient infrastructure to respond to the Sustainable Development Goals’ imperatives of expanding universal access to basic services, enabling prosperity and decent work.
Edited by
Dr David Trejo(Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA)
Sponsored by
