Pathways to Disaster Resilient Infrastructure
Organizer: RMSI
| By 2050, 7 out of 10 people across the globe will be living in urban areas. Rising urbanization forces will drive current and future investment towards infrastructure. History tells us that in most cases, settlements precede infrastructure development. This leads to tremendous challenges especially when coupled with rising risk from climate and natural hazards threats. This is a possible reason driving the fragility of today’s infrastructure also. Durability and dependability are key words for infrastructure. Often the effects of a disaster are exacerbated by the secondary impacts caused by damage to infrastructure. Our expert panel attempts to discuss and arrive at pathways for laying down actionable framework for climate and disaster resilient infrastructure development. Join us to define how our infrastructure must perform against todays and tomorrows climate and natural hazard threat. |
Speakers:
Pushpendra Johari, Sr. Vice President, Sustainability
Jeffrey Euwema, Managing Director, Info Planning Group LLC
Alpa Sheth, Independent Consultant
Sandeep Poundrik, Director-General, Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure
Dr. Sushil Gupta, Disaster Risk Management Expert and AVP – Risk Modeling & Insurance, RMSI Private Limited (India)
Ali Maher, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering