Lifelines: The Resilient Infrastructure Opportunity

The Lifelines report was prepared by a team led by Stéphane Hallegatte, with Jun Rentschler and Julie Rozenberg. It benefited from contributions from multiple teams working on different sectors and topics. The power sector analysis was led by Claire Nicolas, with a team composed of Christopher Arderne, Diana Cubas, Mark Deinert, Eriko Ichikawa, Elco Koks, Ji Li, Samuel Oguah, Albertine Potter van Loon, and Amy Schweikert. The water sector analysis was led by Zhimin Mao, working with Laura Bonzanigo, Xi Hu, Elco Koks, Weeho Lim, Raghav Pant, Patrick Ray, Clementine Stip, Jacob Tracy, and Conrad Zorn. The transport sector analysis was led by Julie Rozenberg, with Xavier Espinet Alegre, Charles Fox, Stuart Fraser, Jim Hall, Elco Koks, Mercedeh Tariverdi, Michalis Vousdoukas, and Conrad Zorn. The telecommunication analysis was contributed by Himmat Sandhu and Siddhartha Raja. The analysis of firm and household surveys was led by Jun Rentschler, with Paolo Avner, Johannes Braese, Alvina Erman, Nick Jones, Martin Kornejew, Sadick Nassoro, Marguerite Obolensky, Samet Sahin, and Eugene Tan. Shinji Ayuha, Célian Colon, Etienne Raffi Kechichian, Maryia Markhvida, Nah Yoon Shin, Shoko Takemoto, and Brian Walsh contributed to the sections on resilient industries and supply chains. Sanae Sasamori and Naho Shibuya contributed to the sections on public-private partnerships. The team at Miyamoto International provided important insights into the engineering solutions to build resilience. As World Bank Group peer reviewers, Greg Browder, Marianne Fay, Vivien Foster, Hideaki Hamada, Helen Martin, Shomik Mehndiratta, Artessa Saldivar-Sali, Alanna Simpson, and Vladimir Stenek provided invaluable comments and suggestions. Thanks also to external advisors: Carter Brandon, Jim Hall, Guillaume Prudent-Richard, Adam Rose, and Yasuyuki Todo. Suggestions, comments, and data were provided by Anjali Acharya, Charles Baubion, Andrii Berdnyk, Moussa Blimpo, Marga Cantada, Debabrata Chattopadhyay, Ashraf Dewan, Mirtha Escobar, Charles Esser, Scott Ferguson, Matias Herrera Dappe, Martin Humphreys, Marie Hyland, Oscar Ishizawa, Asif Islam, Brenden Jongman, Denis Jordy, Balázs Józsa, Shefali Khanna, Brian Kinuthia, Shweta Kulkarni, Mathijs van Ledden, Jia Jun Lee, Richard MacGeorge, Justice Tei Mensah, Jared Mercadante, Brian Min, Alice Mortlock, Sumati Rajput, Steven Rubinyi, Jason Russ, Peter Sanfey, Guillermo Siercke, Ben Stewart, Shen Sun, Janna Tenzing, Joshua Wimpey, Davida Wood, and Fan Zhang. Susan Graham of the World Bank Group’s Publishing Unit was the production editor. Editorial services were provided by Sabra Ledent, Laura Wallace, Nick Paul, Devan Kreisberg, Inge Pakulski, and Elizabeth Forsyth. Brad Amburn designed the cover and created the graphs. The team also thanks Aziz Gökdemir and Jewel McFadden for their help in preparing the report for production. Visibility and launch of the report were supported by Ferzina Banaji, with Uwimana Basaninyenzi, Joana Lopes, Camila Perez, Mehreen Arshad Sheikh, and Gerardo Spatuzzi. The team thanks Julie Dana, manager of the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), and Luis Tineo for their support in the development of this project. Finally, the team acknowledges the generous support of the Japan–World Bank Program for Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Management in Developing Countries, the Climate Change Group of the World Bank under the leadership of John Roome and Bernice Van Bronkhorst, and the World Bank Sustainable Development Practice Group led by Laura Tuck.