Governance of Infrastructure for Resilience

Drawing on case studies and stakeholder engagement with infrastructure decision makers and practitioners around the globe, this white paper explores the current key challenges and barriers to implementing governance of infrastructure for resilience, and the opportunities available for positive change.

Developing infrastructure that is resilient to climate change and natural hazards requires resilience thinking and resilience building decisions and actions by practitioners across the whole infrastructure lifecycle. At each stage there are opportunities to enhance the resilience value of an infrastructure project and to ensure that the resilience value that was built in the earlier stages.

This document was originally published in November 2021 by CDRI and The Resilience Shift.

Sectors
Infrastructure
Strategic Objective
Adaptation
Topics
Climate, Climate Change, Infrastructure, Resilience
Region
Global

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