Critical Infrastructure

The document introduces the case study about reconstruction from Great East Japan Earthquake in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture. (Development of Disaster Management Facilities Integrated in Town Development)

This report explains in detail the rationale for launching the multi-year effort to study how critical buildings performed during the 2017 Hurricane Maria, as well as how emergency communications systems worked beside the summary of progress to date.

The analysis examines the steps taken to deliver a green and resilient recovery and indicates that current action is not commensurate with the sheer scale of the challenge – the rapid accumulation of systemic, interconnected and cascading disaster risk.

According to the authors there is now an urgent need to revitalize public health in general and environmental public health in particular to recover from COVID-19 and beyond.

This article will summarize 33 courses of action for rebuilding the telecommunications sector proposed by the Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center, a Federally Funded Research and Development Center and adopted by the government of Puerto Rico.

This report details how previous studies have documented the negative impacts and unexpected secondary effects of post-disaster housing development.

This study evaluates the state of Saint-Martin’s CI before and after Hurricane Irma and, accordingly, reveals the indicators to assess during reconstruction projects. The proposed methods offer practitioners a guidance tool for planning efficient BBB CI

This article focuses on decision making for retrofit investment of road networks in order to alleviate severe consequences of roadside tree blowdown during tropical cyclones. The consequences include both the physical damage associated with roadside trees

This study presents a city-scale, data-driven model of multi-infrastructure recovery in a suburban municipality. The approach uses the Graph Model for Operational Resilience, a data-driven discrete event simulator that can model the spatial and functional

This has been developed to capture Japan’s experience in road geohazard risk management and offers a way forward for low- and middle-income countries. The report provides key findings across each phase of the geohazard risk management process.