Lifelines: The Resilient Infrastructure Opportunity (World Bank Report)

Water, sanitation, energy, transport, telecommunication. Infrastructure services are essential for the quality of lives and livelihoods. But billions of people today face the consequences of unreliable infrastructure.

Every year, disruptions to infrastructure, for example by natural hazards, cost the global economy at least $400 billion. New analysis shows that investing in more resilient infrastructure is robust, profitable, and urgent. But what does more resilient infrastructure look like? 

• Resilient infrastructure is about people. Particularly in developing countries, infrastructure disruptions are an everyday concern that affects people’s well-being, economic prospects, and quality of life.
• There is a significant economic opportunity from investing in resilient infrastructure: the overall net benefit of doing so in developing countries would be $4.2 trillion over the lifetime of new infrastructure.
• For infrastructure investors, governments, development banks and the private sector the message is clear: rather than just spending more, also spend better

About the book:

From serving our most basic needs to enabling our most ambitious ventures in trade and technology, infrastructure services are essential for raising and maintaining people’s quality of life. Yet millions of people, especially in low- and middle-income countries, are facing the consequences of unreliable electricity grids, inadequate water and sanitation systems, and overstrained transport networks. Natural hazards magnify the challenges faced by these fragile systems. Building on a wide range of case studies, global empirical analyses, and modeling exercises, Lifelines lays out a framework for understanding infrastructure resilience—the ability of infrastructure systems to function and meet users’ needs during and after a natural shock—and it makes an economic case for building more resilient infrastructure. Lifelines concludes by identifying five obstacles to resilient infrastructure and offering concrete recommendations and specific actions that can be taken by governments, stakeholders, and the international community to improve the quality and resilience of these essential services, and thereby contribute to more resilient and prosperous societies.

Citation:

“Hallegatte, Stephane; Rentschler, Jun; Rozenberg, Julie. 2019. Lifelines : The Resilient Infrastructure Opportunity. Sustainable Infrastructure;. Washington, DC: World Bank. © World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/31805 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”

Source: World Bank

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Taxonomy

• Water & Sanitation
• Sanitation & Hygiene
• Water Supply
• Sanitation & Hygiene
• Rural Area Water Supply
• Drinking Water Managment
• Drinking Water
• Infrastructure
• Water Resource Management
• Intelligent Networks
• Infrastructure Management
• Water Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH)