&lt;strong&gt;A theoretical framework for building the risk-resilience of basic infrastructures and services using Open Data&lt;/strong&gt;

Mahsa Moghadas,Theo Kötter,Alexander Fekete,Asad Asadzadeh

doi:10.3390/ifou2018-05960

<strong>A theoretical framework for building the risk-resilience of basic infrastructures and services using Open Data</strong>

Mahsa Moghadas, Theo Kötter + Show 2 more

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https://doi.org/10.3390/ifou2018-05960

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In recent years, cities have been confronted with increasing risks induced by climate change and natural hazards impacts. The experience gained highlights how cascading failures of critical infrastructures and basic services can affect both inherent and adaptive capacities of cities in time of an adverse event and create post disaster conflicts. At the same time, international policy circles have acknowledged the need to have sufficiently consistent and comparable disaster-related data to allow meaningful measurement of progress and impact. Therefore, to serve this need, understanding the link between resilience qualities of critical infrastructures and Open Data can lead to increase the level of disaster resilience, preparedness and response. It can also influence future-oriented urban and infrastructural planning at the local level. This paper offers a theoretical framework for building resilience in basic infrastructures and services across disaster preparedness and response concerning the contribution of Open Data for climate and natural hazard risk management in Tehran, Iran.

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Over the past ten years, approximately 700 thousand people have lost their lives, over 1.4 million have been injured and 23 million have been made homeless because of disasters partly fueled by climate change
This paper offers a theoretical framework for building resilience in basic infrastructures and services across disaster preparedness and response concerning the contribution of Open Data for climate and natural hazard risk management in Tehran, Iran
Theoretical framework A framework is suggested in this paper to understand the qualities of risk and resilience for Basic Infrastructures and services (BIS) and leverage community collaboration through Open Data in using, sharing and collecting consistent data which has been adopted from OpenDRI

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Over the past ten years, approximately 700 thousand people have lost their lives, over 1.4 million have been injured and 23 million have been made homeless because of disasters partly fueled by climate change. Based on the fact that the degree of exposure to flood as well as the inherent characteristics (vulnerability and existing capacitates) of the receptors such as human settlements, critical infrastructures and any other structure can affect the level of disaster risk, the need to strengthen cities’ resilience have been acknowledged from global to local governance. According to UNISDR resilience has been defined as “The ability of a system, community or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate, adapt to, transform and recover from the effects of a hazard in a timely and efficient manner, including through the preservation and restoration of its essential basic structures and functions through risk management”. According to the UNISDR critical infrastructures refers to “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”. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) especially goals 9 and 11 underscore the need for safe, resilient, and inclusive urban infrastructures with the ambition to “develop quality, reliable, sustainable, and resilient infrastructure in order to support community wellbeing with focus on affordable and equitable access for all”

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