are substantially higher than immediately evident from analyzing foregone economic output from halted production. Reducing the prevalence of disruptions by increasing the resilience of infrastructure therefore provides a powerful tool to increase longer‐term capital investments and entrepreneurship and can lead to sustainable economic benefits far exceeding the primary effects of avoided disruptions (Tanner _et al._ , 2015).

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