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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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Correspondence to Udit Bhatia or Auroop Ganguly .

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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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    Climate Hazards and Critical Infrastructures Resilience
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23519-6_1634-3

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    Climate Hazards and Critical Infrastructures Resilience
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23519-6_1634-1