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No Broken Link: The Vulnerability of Telecommunication Infrastructure to Natural Hazards

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dc.contributor.authorSandhu, Himmat Singh
dc.contributor.authorRaja, Siddhartha
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-19T20:44:52Z
dc.date.available2019-06-19T20:44:52Z
dc.date.issued2019-06
dc.description.abstractThe global economy is increasingly digital. The internet and other information and communicationtechnologies (ICTs) are changing the way individuals, businesses and governments operate. Theirresilience to natural disasters, and their ability to recover in the aftermath, is thus critical to the resilience of the economy. This chapter discusses the impact of climate events on various types of digital infrastructure. It highlights key considerations for governments and digital infrastructure owners to make their infrastructure more resilient, while maintaining affordability of services. We find that digital infrastructure is vulnerable to various climate risks, but that technology choices and network design can improve redundancy and resilience of networks, by design. Certain infrastructures warrant greater ex ante investment in their resilience considering their criticality in the broadband value chain (submarine cables or landing stations) while others could follow repair and recovery options (mobile network antennas, poles, and towers). We conclude with recommendations for the public and private sectors, noting that governments and sectorregulators can improve network resilience, and increase coordination given the distributedownership and governance models in the industry.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/951991560791754833/No-Broken-Link-The-Vulnerability-of-Telecommunication-Infrastructure-to-Natural-Hazards
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/31912
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/31912
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesBackground paper for Lifelines;
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectTELECOMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE
dc.subjectDIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE
dc.subjectNATURAL DISASTER
dc.subjectDISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT
dc.subjectCLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT
dc.subjectTELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK
dc.subjectINTERNET DATA CENTERS
dc.subjectINTERNET NODES
dc.subjectRESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE
dc.titleNo Broken Linken
dc.title.subtitleThe Vulnerability of Telecommunication Infrastructure to Natural Hazardsen
dc.typeReporten
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dc.typeInformees
dspace.entity.typePublication
okr.associatedcontenthttps://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/31805 Lifelines main publicationen
okr.crossref.titleNo Broken Link
okr.date.disclosure2019-06-19
okr.doctypeEconomic & Sector Work
okr.doctypeEconomic & Sector Work::Other Infrastructure Study
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/951991560791754833/No-Broken-Link-The-Vulnerability-of-Telecommunication-Infrastructure-to-Natural-Hazards
okr.guid951991560791754833
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/31912
okr.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1596/31912
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum090224b086dc465b_1_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum31166735
okr.identifier.report137913
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okr.pdfurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/951991560791754833/pdf/No-Broken-Link-The-Vulnerability-of-Telecommunication-Infrastructure-to-Natural-Hazards.pdfen
okr.topicEnvironment::Climate Change Impacts
okr.topicEnvironment::Climate Change and Environment
okr.topicEnvironment::Natural Disasters
okr.topicInformation and Communication Technologies::Information Technology
okr.topicInformation and Communication Technologies::Telecommunications Infrastructure
okr.topicInfrastructure Economics and Finance::Infrastructure Economics
okr.unitClimate Change-D1-GFDRR-IBRD (GFDRR)
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