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Critical infrastructure

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.

One failure can trigger a chain reaction.

Latest Critical infrastructure additions in the Knowledge Base

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Extreme weather resilience: why it matters and how we’re building it thumbnail
Documents and publications

This paper examines why extreme weather resilience is becoming a core priority for infrastructure investors and how it should be built into investment decisions.

Actis
Enhancing urban traffic resilience under pluvial flooding through adaptive signal control thumbnail
Documents and publications

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.

International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
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The East Palestine derailment illustrates an increasingly common reality: industrial facilities and critical infrastructure systems operate within highly interconnected environments.

Domestic Preparedness
Gloved hands connecting the power cable to the extension reel socket, with a yellow cable wound around the green drum during outdoor electrical setup.
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A severe winter snow drought has left snowpack levels far below normal across the American West in 2026.

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Documents and publications

This briefing paper presents key findings from a semi-quantitative climate risk assessment of Syria's electricity sector, intended to support the country's reconstruction efforts.

ODI Global
Mainstreaming resilience into infrastructure thumbnail
Documents and publications

The study addresses growing disaster risks to infrastructure caused by climate change and extreme weather, which generate significant economic losses globally and in India.

Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI)
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2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption showed volcanic ash can trigger global transport and supply chain disruption beyond local damage, reshaping insurance BI/CBI thinking and driving new risk modelling.

WTW
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New satellite-based research has identified signs of Ahmedabad land subsidence across parts of the city’s western and southern urban corridors, raising concerns over groundwater management, urban planning and the long-term resilience.

Urban Acres
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