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This chapter presents a compilation of work conducted by the ASCE Task Committee ‘Infrastructure Impacts of Landscape-driven Weather Change’ under the ASCE Watershed Management Technical Committee and the ASCE Hydroclimate Technical Committee. The chapter argues for explicitly considering the well-established feedbacks triggered by infrastructure systems to the land-atmosphere system via landscape change. A definition for Infrastructure Resilience (IR) at the intersection of extreme weather and climate is provided for the engineering community. The broader range of views and issues than what is currently in the front view of engineering practice is expected to ensure more robust approaches for resilience assessment by the engineering community by affording a greater number of ‘scenarios’ in its decision-making. The engineering community needs to understand the predictive uncertainty of changes to extreme weather and climate and how it can be addressed to improve infrastructure design and operations.

With permission from ASCE, this chapter is adapted from: Local-To-Regional Landscape Drivers of Extreme Weather and Climate: Implications for Water Infrastructure Resilience, ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, Vol 20, 7, July 2015.

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  1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98015, USA

    Faisal Hossain

  2. Institute of Water Resources, US Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle, WA, 9815, USA

    Jeffrey Arnold

  3. Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University, 550 Stadium Mall Drive, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA

    Dev Niyogi

  4. University of Colorado, CIRES, Boulder, CO, 80309-0216, USA

    Roger A. Pielke Sr.

  5. Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong

    Ji Chen

  6. Formerly with Water and Power Subcommittee, Water Resources and the Environment Subcommittee at U.S. House of Representatives, Washington DC, USA

    Dave Wegner

  7. CREÄ Affiliates, 2319 N 65th Street, Seattle, WA, 98103, USA

    Anindita Mitra

  8. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Utah, 110 Central Campus Drive, Ste 2044, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA

    Steve Burian

  9. Portland State University, Portland, OR, 97207, USA

    Shahrbanou Madadgar

  10. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    Ed Beighley

  11. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 130 Natural Resources Road, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA

    Casey Brown

  12. Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, 87185, USA

    Vincent Tidwell

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Hossain, F. et al. (2020). Resilience of Water Management Infrastructure. In: Hossain, F. (eds) Resilience of Large Water Management Infrastructure. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26432-1_1

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