Aug 29, 2022 Sanjay Srivastava, Sapna Dubey, Soomi Hong, Madhurima Sarkar-Swaisgood Five Action Points for a Resilient Future Five Action Points for a Resilient Future... Read More
Jul 5, 2022 Evaristo Nino T. Cando III Strengthening the Standards for Safe and Resilient Transportation Infrastructure in the Philippines The Philippines, being archipelagic and located in the pacific ring of fire is very much exposed to various natural... Read More
Jul 5, 2022 Sagar Asapur Building Resilience in Hydropower Sector through Effective Standards Over the years, due to the climate change and disasters, the risks to stranded assets such as hydropower plants are becoming increasingly dangerous.... Read More
Jul 5, 2022 Dipankar Chyau Patnaik Integration of Resilience Standards – A Critical Necessity for a Sustainable Future A reform is the sign of change, a reform is a reckoner of the efforts taken to upgrade, better and add value to the existing... Read More
Jul 5, 2022 Dr Roodheer Beeharry Standards Enabling Resilience of Road Infrastructure: Case of the TRL, Overseas Road Note (ORN) 5 and 31 When essential infrastructure systems are damaged, rippling effects spread through the communities and disrupt the systems... Read More
May 3, 2022 Dr. Gabriel Bernal The path to resilience starts with a good-enough disaster risk modeling We all agree on the need for disaster-resilient infrastructure... Read More
May 3, 2022 Kamal Kishore, Mona Chhabra Anand, Avinash Venkata Adavikolanu The Elephant in the Hydrogen Room The list of countries walking the talk on decarbonization... Read More
Apr 28, 2022 Professor Jim Hall Where do we go from here? The next step in upgrading global infrastructure management To ensure the longevity of the world’s major cities in the face of climate change, resilience experts at COP26 emphasised... Read More
Apr 27, 2022 Mr. Andrew Maskrey Global Infrastructure Resilience Index (GIRI) – Measuring Risk & Resilience in Infrastructure Sectors Work is now accelerating on the development of the Global Infrastructure Resilience... Read More
Dec 30, 2021 Rajat Uchil, Dr. Hem Dholakia, Lead Specialist Early Warning based Decision Support System for Data Centre Resiliency As the world becomes increasingly digitalized, demand for data centre services is rising rapidly.…... Read More
Dec 22, 2021 Sanjay Srivastava Glasgow Climate Pact: a boost to adaptation in a riskier world The Sixth Assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change highlights that the…... Read More
Nov 23, 2021 Chris Lewin Resilience of Infrastructure Introduction The UK Government held a consultation from July to September 2021, in which it…... Read More
Nov 3, 2021 Sanjay Srivastava Strengthening resilience and raising climate ambition key for Asian and Pacific countries at COP26 A person in the Asia-Pacific region is four times more at risk of natural hazards than a person in…... Read More
Oct 11, 2021 Sanjay Srivastava Promoting climate resilience through science: Critical for Asia and the Pacific Recent research by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has shown that the world is…... Read More
Oct 3, 2021 Mr. Abhilash Panda How resilient is our ‘digital’ world? Technology is now all around us. The digital transformation we have seen…... Read More
Jul 30, 2021 Sanjay Srivastava Strengthening climate resilience through better flood management Climate connection of July 2021 floods in Western Europe, China and India Extreme flood events…... Read More
Jun 28, 2021 Sanjay Srivastava, Madhurima Sarkar-Swaisgood, SungEun Kim, Maria Bernadet Karina Dewi Cyclone Tauktae: a perfect storm of climate change and pandemic From May 12-19, in the midst of the devastating second wave of the pandemic, the powerful Cyclone…... Read More
Jun 25, 2021 Susana M. Rojas Williams Building the resilience of water infrastructure in Lima Peru Building the resilience of water infrastructure in Lima Peru Lima is the second driest city in the…... Read More
Jun 25, 2021 Fabian Rackelmann Inclusive Ecological Infrastructure for Resilience – A case study of Bonn, Germany Urban areas are growing tremendously. The United Nations estimates that almost 70% of the global…... Read More
Jun 25, 2021 Priyanka Panjwani Strategizing for urban risk and resilience in Thane’s coastal settlements On the western part of India, Thane is a rapidly urbanizing city in the Mumbai Metropolitan region…... Read More
May 23, 2021 Sanjay Srivastava The Oxygen Express: How regional cooperation can help prepare for future pandemics In recent weeks, India’s second COVID-19 wave has been devastating, reaching world records for the…... Read More
Apr 16, 2021 Carlos Sanchez The challenges of unlocking private capital to finance resilient infrastructure This year’s annual conference of the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI)…... Read More
Apr 8, 2021 Karma Yangchen A Himalayan nation learning from nature to ensure a resilient future Bhutan is a landlocked country with plenty of glacier lakes, watered by snow-fed rivers. Floods…... Read More
Apr 6, 2021 Ke Xiong Smart resilient cities: Theoretical insights Cities are facing mega challenges of climate change, urbanization, population increase, economic…... Read More
Apr 1, 2021 Jonathan Ofori Nyamedi Learning from nature to get solutions on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure Nature-based solutions for disaster resilient infrastructure are cost-effective, inspired and…... Read More
Mar 31, 2021 Jameson Glen Chiu Lim A Conscious Progress towards a Resilient Future Resilience is the adjective often used to describe us Filipinos. Objectively speaking, we are…... Read More
Mar 30, 2021 Ganesh Dhungana Resilient housing near the epicenter of 2015 Nepal Earthquake Traditional architecture is a crucial reason behind sustainable building design in different…... Read More
Mar 26, 2021 Abinash Mohanty and Nandini Harihar Why Urban Climate Resilience Matters? Developing urban resilience consists of improving the capacity of cities and towns — as well as…... Read More
Mar 26, 2021 Shareefa Youshna Jewan Learning from locals - indigenous solutions can ensure better resilience Machu Picchu was built by the Incas using seismic-resistant construction techniques due to the high…... Read More
Mar 25, 2021 Leekieth Sun Using technology for better disaster preparedness and building resilience Humanity has been dealing with natural hazards for generations. Like all countries in the world,…... Read More
Mar 24, 2021 Jorge Adrian Ortiz Moreno The water oases of San Gregorio Atlapulco: a story of household resilient infrastructure Figure 1. Residents of Mexico City receiving water from a tanker truck days after the 19S…... Read More
Mar 23, 2021 Anuja Narendra Chavan An appeal to learn from local solutions to build resilient infrastructure What do indigenous practices entail? Something local. A practice that has emerged from indigenous…... Read More
Mar 22, 2021 Aronsakda Ses from Thailand A glimpse into a resilient future The year is 2120. Kosal, a ninth grader, begins his class by reading the following passage. Grim…... Read More
Mar 18, 2021 Lauren Anders Brown ‘Health outcomes at their best are numbers but bringing meaning to those numbers is what can create real change’ I am best known for empathetic storytelling and using a camera to bring audiences into worlds…... Read More
Mar 15, 2021 Abinash Mohanty and Shuva Raha Innovation is key to climate-proofing infrastructure Photo source - istock Infrastructure is intrinsic to every aspect of our lives. However, we tend…... Read More
Mar 9, 2021 Dr. Gabriel Bernal The Path to Disaster Resilience starts with a good-enough Risk Modeling We all agree on the need for disaster resilient infrastructure. But what…... Read More
Mar 8, 2021 Riya Rahiman Resilient Infrastructure: An impetus to global commitments and COVID-19 recovery Countries have been grappling to deal with the impacts of climate change and…... Read More
Mar 4, 2021 Mr. Stephen Bereaux Digital Infrastructure Resilience for Sustainable Development When one year ago the WHO declared the COVID-19 virus a global pandemic, digital technologies…... Read More
Feb 24, 2021 Prof. Jim Hall Informing decisions about disaster resilient infrastructure systems… everywhere University of Oxford Last week, large parts of the power network in Texas…... Read More
Feb 22, 2021 Mr. Sanjaya Bhatia All about Cities and Resilient Infrastructure Our future is urban. By 2050, two-thirds of the world’s population will be…... Read More
Feb 12, 2021 Mr. Rajat Uchil Why your next pizza delivery may depend on resilience of our digital infrastructure Look at the world around us. We can work from home, order pizza at the click…... Read More
Feb 11, 2021 Ms. Shradha Dagar ATTRACTIVE JOB OPPORTUNITY: Why youth should choose a career in disaster resilient infrastructure Over the course of our lives, we will spend more than one-third of our time…... Read More
Feb 10, 2021 Dr. Vikrant Panwar Financing Resilient Infrastructure: Bridging the Funding Gap Critical infrastructure supporting transport, power, telecommunication and…... Read More
Feb 9, 2021 Mr. Sandeep Poundrik and Dr. Hem Dholakia Three Trends to Track for Greater Resilient Infrastructure The world has entered the era of unprecedented…... Read More
Feb 5, 2021 Mr. Sandeep Poundrik Disaster Resilient Infrastructure = More Power for the People Electricity, like roads and mobiles, has become a necessity over time.…... Read More
Jan 20, 2021 Ms. Karen Klimowski What I Have Learned about the Gray (Infrastructure) and the Green (Nature) USAID India Acting Deputy Mission Director Recently I was pleased to join…... Read More
Jan 12, 2021 Mr. Sandeep Poundrik What COVID-19 Has Taught Us about Disaster Risk and Resilient Infrastructure With the hopeful news that long-awaited COVID-19 vaccines have started…... Read More
Jan 12, 2021 Mr. Sandeep Poundrik How Shoring Up Resilient Infrastructure Brings Us Back to Nature Vulnerable communities around the world continue to bear the brunt of…... Read More
Dec 29, 2020 Dr. Hem Dholakia Resilient. Transforming Health Infrastructure Beyond 2020 Health infrastructure is the backbone of an accessible, affordable and…... Read More