In 2023, around 400 natural hazards resulted in around 87,000 deaths and economic losses amounting to $202.7 billion. Building resilient infrastructure is essential to minimizing the losses to human life and property as the risk of natural disasters increases.
These six principles, developed by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) are targeted at national scale because it is at this scale that there is political accountability for infrastructure systems. They establish goals for net resilience gain across infrastructure lifecycle stages, ensuring the continuity of critical services through the preparation, absorption, recovery, and adaptation phases of disruption.