Infrastructure Pathways is a global resource for infrastructure practitioners seeking clear, easy-to-navigate guidance on practical ways to integrate climate resilience into every phase of the infrastructure lifecycle: policies and plans, prioritisation, feasibility and preparation, funding and financing, design, procurement, construction, operations and maintenance, and end of life.
It translates the broad landscape of state-of-the-art resilience reports and frameworks into practical actions, supported by best practices, case studies, tools, and key resources.
Key objectives of Infrastructure Pathways
Infrastructure Pathways aims to organise, explain, and link key existing information, guidance, and tools from hundreds of sources on climate-resilient infrastructure across the entire lifecycle. It provides practical, mutually reinforcing actions at each phase of infrastructure development, creating a “golden thread” that connects systems and practitioners.
- Provides clearly differentiated, achievable actions for each lifecycle stage, coordinated to be mutually reinforcing
- Links practitioner actions and decisions across the lifecycle to embed and retain resilience value
- Enables targeted access to key information, resources, and tools, helping practitioners quickly find what they need to work effectively and save time
- Uses a consistent and clear format and terminology across the infrastructure lifecycle
- Embeds systems thinking at all stages of project development
Who is Infrastructure Pathways for?
- Infrastructure practitioners who are new to climate resilience can access introductory concepts and principles, along with clear, practical guidance on how to integrate resilience into their day-to-day work.
- Practitioners who are already experienced in resilience-building will benefit from understanding the upstream and downstream actions taken by others, and how these influence their own work. Recognising these interdependencies across the lifecycle helps strengthen coordination and enhances collective action towards more resilient infrastructure.
The guidance provided in Infrastructure Pathways is intended to be broadly relevant and useful to all geographic, economic and political contexts. Practitioners can, for example:
- Check that no critical resilience actions are overlooked before advancing to the next project phase;
- Interactively explore resilience actions by lifecycle phase or practitioner group to understand their own role in ensuring resilience, but also interconnections with other practitioners or other lifecycle phases;
- Find specific guidance on best practice process for resilience actions, informed by global examples; and
- Retrieve a curated selection of relevant resources to build a deeper knowledge base.
