ICE response to the National Infrastructure Commission Resilience Study scoping report

This consultation response sets out a case for a greater focus on systems thinking, analyses what is needed to better understand public attitudes to long-term infrastructure provision and explains the need for regional infrastructure strategies.

It makes three recommendations

1. The infrastructure sector must place an emphasis on systems thinking, whilst adopting common approaches and frameworks that better share lessons learnt.
2. Working with polling organisations and other experts, the Commission should explore what levels of public knowledge exist around long-term resilience and what information would be necessary to garner public support for investment to meet long-term need.
3. Regional infrastructure strategies should be developed across England that consider resilience as a fundamental part of infrastructure planning and delivery.