Varga, L; (2022) New set of global principles for resilient infrastructure will reduce disaster risks. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Civil Engineering , 175 (4) p. 147. 10.1680/jcien.2022.175.4.147.

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Supported by the Institution of Civil Engineers, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction published global principles and actions for achieving resilient infrastructure earlier this year. Liz Varga of University College London explains. Following global consultations with member states in Qatar in March 2022, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) published six principles and 33 key actions for achieving sustainable national infrastructure in May 2022 (UNDRR, 2022). The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) was proactively involved as an expert in the validation. The principles have been designed to support the UN Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, in particular global target D on developing infrastructure resilience, and the UN Sustainable Development Goal 9 on industry, innovation and infrastructure. The principles – namely, continuously learning, proactively protected, environmentally integrated, socially engaged, shared responsibility and adaptively transforming – are the goals an inter-dependent national infrastructure system must meet to be resilient, and to improve net resilience gain.

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