Risk Assessment Frameworks for Resilient Infrastructure

Drawing from a forthcoming SDCC publication on the “state of play” on disaster-resilient infrastructure in Asia and the Pacific, a risk assessment framework for infrastructure will be presented. The methodology includes the importance of a risk narrative, the role of risk modeling, and how this informs integrated findings for decision making will be explored. An illustrative case of critical roads in Pakistan will be presented.

Cheryl Halim

Cheryl Halim is an environmental engineer with over 15 years of experience. She has managed various sized environmental assessment, remediation, landfill, risk assessment and site audit projects. Cheryl has also assisted contaminated site auditors in undertaking many contaminated land site audits in various states in Australia. She also serves as one of Zoic's in-house risk assessment specialists. Some of Cheryl's areas of expertise include: environmental assessment, remediation, landfill, risk assessment, site audit, clandestine drug laboratory, asbestos, and leaching tests.

Tharith Panpiemras

Tharith Panpiemras is Senior Director in Banking Supervision and Risk Assessment Department of the Bank of Thailand. Prior to his current position, he also served as Senior Director, Financial Institutions Development Fund (FIDF) and Director of Corporate Planning Department and Office Corporate Strategy at the Bank of Thailand. He also had experiences in financial risk management and portfolio investment.

Before joining the Bank of Thailand, he also worked at Industrial Finance Corporation of Thailand (IFCT).

eWater Source and Community of Practice for Integrated Water Resources Management

Water management has become an increasingly complex issue. Justifying decisions on the basis of incomplete science or limited process descriptions in simulation tools is no longer sufficient. The use of an adaptive framework is therefore necessarily implied by the application of systems thinking in an integrated water resources management context.