Infrastructure Australia has outlined practical steps to deliver infrastructure that is more resilient to threats such as bushfires, droughts, floods, global pandemic, and cyber-attacks, in new advisory papers, A Pathway to Infrastructure Resilience.
A Pathway to Infrastructure Resilience recommends a whole-of-system, all-hazards approach to resilience planning that focuses on strengthening an infrastructure asset, network and sector, as well as the place, precinct, city, and region that the infrastructure operates within.
It aims to create resilient communities that can resist, absorb, accommodate, recover, transform and thrive in response to the effects of shocks and stresses in a timely, efficient manner to enable sustainable economic, social, environmental and governance outcomes.
The steps proposed to improve resilience in response to all hazards and across sectors are informed by the latest thinking from over 600 experts. The recommendations are informed by The Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangement, The National Disaster Risk Reduction Framework, the independent NSW Bushfire Inquiry and a series of 16 stakeholder workshops.
A Pathway to Infrastructure Resilience consists of two advisory papers:
- Advisory Paper 1: Opportunities for systemic change – identifies 10 directions for transformational and systemic change in infrastructure planning to achieve infrastructure for resilience.
- Advisory Paper 2: Guidance for asset owners and operators in the short term – identifies a series of short-term actions for asset owners and operators as the first steps towards this change.
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