Bloomberg's administration has made a good start on planning a more resilient infrastructure, but these things are expensive and some are resisted by developers.
These geographically diverse communities including Milwaukee, El Paso, Hoboken and Honolulu are very different, but they all face similar challenges in building a more resilient infrastructure.
The toolkit would comprise building technology resources and best practices for consideration by the Haitian government with the goal of creating a more resilient infrastructure to prevent future losses of life.
First, no one disagreed with the reality of these challenges and second, no one -- whether on the political left or right -- disagreed with the goals of our wanting resilient infrastructure, a vibrant economy, a healthy community, and a productive workforce.
A sustainable and secure food supply within a low-carbon and resilient infrastructure is encapsulated in several of The United Nations' 17 sustainable development goals.
When we saw things like Conficker sweep through, or Slammer sweep through all these systems, it started making me wonder whether or not we were building a house of cards, a very lightly constructed, not very resilient infrastructure.
Will they act to put in place policies and funding that will create a new clean energy and resilient infrastructure?
SDG 6 measures access to good water and sanitation, whereas SDG 9 considers the existence of a quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure (which includes Internet and Broadband access), along with measures of innovation, which include R&D expenditure, R&D workers per capita, and patent applications.
It is obvious that what is stopping cities from building more resilient infrastructure is not a lack of awareness -- cities know what they need -- and it isn't even a lack of money.
