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- Summary:
- This report features conversations with public and private-sector leaders around the world about building risk-resilient infrastructures. It is part of PricewaterhouseCooper (PwC)’s work with the UN Office of Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) to develop a framework for long-term public-private sector collaboration for disaster preparedness and response. The body of the document is divided into a series of interviews. The first set of interviews is with Akihiro Ohta of Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) and the Mayor of Sendai, Japan, Emiko Okuyama, on responses to the 2011 magnitude 9.0 Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami. The following is with Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlstom, on their collaboration with PwC to establish an international public-private collaborative platform for disaster resilience. In the next, Walmart’s Senior Director of Global Emergency Management, Mark Cooper, discusses business continuity planning. The document proceeds to highlight a talk with Mayor of Christchurch, New Zealand, Bob Parker, on efforts to rebuild the city as a model of resilience following the 2010 magnitude 7.1 earthquake. The following discussion revolves around the City of New York’s response to the devastating 2012 Superstorm Sandy, and features interviews with Bob Prieto, senior vice president of the industrial and infrastructure business group at Fluor Corp; Tom Prendergast, chairman and chief executive officer of New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA); and Pat Foye, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Next is a discussion with Dr. Juan Pablo Sarmiento, medical doctor and research professor at the Stempel College of Public Health at Florida International University (FIU), on bringing the academic, the private, and government sectors together to transfer knowledge needed to increase local capacities for building and maintaining resilient infrastructures. David Miller, Associate Administrator for the Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration of the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) talks about establishing incentives to encourage public-private partnerships for investment in resilient infrastructure. Bob Dixon, Mayor of Greensburg, Kansas, discusses how the town built back better following a Level 5 tornado in 2007. Aris Papadopoulos, CEO of Titan America, discusses the need for stricter resiliency standards in the construction industry, specifically a resilient construction certification. Dr. Frederick Krimgold, director of the Disaster Risk Reduction Program, Advanced Research Institute at Virginia Tech, discusses the importance of mitigation plans and pre-event relationships to successful recovery following a disaster. PwC offers six recommendations gleaned from these conversations. The first is that early investment in disaster preparedness and risk reduction is cost effective. Second, the earlier collaboration between the private sector and government is established, the more effective they will be when disaster occurs. Third, active community engagement and mobilization is absolutely essential for effective DRM. Fourth, resiliency requires building relationships across regions, because disasters do not respect boundaries, and thus solutions must not either. Fifth, promote the integration of DRR into rehabilitation and reconstruction processes by crafting the appropriate mix of regulations and incentives. And lastly, building back better requires a long-term plan centered on constructing and maintaining resilient infrastructures. ( English )
- Subject:
- Disaster and Resilience ( English )
- Scope and Content:
- H. The PwC disaster risk management framework: Through an infrastructure lens; 1. Disaster: Global reverberations from a local event; 7. Preparedness: Preventing human and economic loss; 12. Recovery: Lessons from around the world; 21. Rebuilding: The role of resilient infrastructure; Sidebars: D. UNISDR and PwC chart a new global framework for disaster risk reduction; 4. Asia’s vulnerabilities; 8. Interview with Emiko Okuyama; 13. Interview with Akihiro Ohta; 19. Robust business continuity planning is essential to disaster recovery; 23. The way forward for infrastructure design in Japan. ( English )
- Preferred Citation:
- (2013). Rebuilding for resilience: fortifying infrastructure to withstand disaster. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- Florida International University
- Rights Management:
- © 2013 PwC. All rights reserved. PwC refers to the PwC network and/or one or more of its member firms, each of which is a separate legal entity. Please see www.pwc.com/structure for further details.
- Resource Identifier:
- FI13102405
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