17. Disaster Resilient Infrastructure

Inducting the sustainable infrastructure rating systems enable assessment of the degree to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) compliance (Diaz-Sarachagaa et al. 2016). Day-to-day revenue and profit pressures relegate disaster preparedness to lower priorities. Policy-makers, processors, and community are taking serious note of disaster risk management targets and indicators. (Mitchell et al. 2013). Integrated assessments put in parenthesis disaster-proofing, technology innovation, SDG compliance and overarchingly, good governance (Lotze−Campen 2015) Integrated models: integrated assessment). Infrastructure sustainability assessment commenced with societal, environmental and economic costs, and value added spanning their life cycles. This was boosted to the next level with disaster preparedness and resilience charted by Hyogo and Sendai frameworks that focused on reduction of global disaster damage to critical infrastructure, access to multi-hazard early warning, strengthen resilience of aging and new critical infrastructure, spanning, water, transportation, telecommunications, education, health care, and sanitation (UNISDR 2015).