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Climate Hazards and Critical Infrastructures Resilience

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Climate Hazards and Critical Infrastructures Resilience

Civil and environmental engineers design structures such as buildings, bridges, and levees based on implicit or explicit assessments of risks. Thus, dead and live loads are considered along with acute stressors including natural hazards, in addition to the strength of materials and the fragility of components. Safety factors in engineering design essentially attempt to account for unknown or perhaps even unknowable uncertainties and change. The consequences of failure, measured in terms of economic damage and danger to human lives, result in safety factor assignments. Probabilistic risk assessments and reliability analyses attempt to explicitly consider risks in engineering design. Performance-based engineering and fuse-based systems attempt to develop design paradigms that rely on anticipated stresses to structural components. In certain implementations, system level functionality may be maintained while allowing for...

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  1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

    Udit Bhatia, Rachael Heiss, Nan Deng, Devashish Kumar, Evan Kodra & Jerome F. Hajjar

  2. Department of Political Science, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

    Allison Traylor & Stephen E. Flynn

  3. Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

    Catherine Moskos

  4. Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

    Laura Blumenfeld, Haris N. Koutsopoulos & Auroop Ganguly

  5. College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

    Lindsey Bressler

  6. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

    Tyler Hall

  7. Villanova School of Business, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA

    Kevin D. Clark

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  2. Rutgers Business School, Newark, New Jersey, USA

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  3. The University of Iowa Tippie College of Business, Iowa City, Iowa, USA

    Xun Zhou

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Bhatia, U. et al. (2017). Climate Hazards and Critical Infrastructures Resilience. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23519-6_1634-3

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