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The physical structures, facilities, networks and other assets which provide services that are essential to the social and economic functioning of a community or society.
This author's message to disaster risk management professionals is simple: treat communication as lifeline infrastructure and plan for redundancy, just as we do for water, power and shelter.
Firefighters, military personnel, police officers and medics mobilised to a simulated aircraft crash on 26 June 2026, as Fiji Airports Limited conducted its first-ever large-scale night-time airport emergency exercise.
Extreme heatwaves increasingly force power plants to reduce output, a problem often misattributed solely to nuclear safety. In reality, nuclear curtailment stems from environmental regulations preventing thermal pollution and reduced cooling efficiency.
Cuba is strengthening DRR through anticipatory action, risk-informed planning and inclusive Cooperation Frameworks that address climate hazards and social vulnerabilities.
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United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)
A team at the Applied Physics Lab is working to understand the complex science behind predicting invisible threats that can quickly cripple electric grid infrastructure on Earth.
This paper examines why extreme weather resilience is becoming a core priority for infrastructure investors and how it should be built into investment decisions.
This study developed an integrated simulation framework that couples hydrodynamic inundation modeling with an agent-based traffic-rescue simulation to examine adaptive resilience in urban traffic networks under compound flood-traffic conditions.
The East Palestine derailment illustrates an increasingly common reality: industrial facilities and critical infrastructure systems operate within highly interconnected environments.
