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This text offers comprehensive and principled, yet practical,
guidelines to critical infrastructures resilience. Extreme events
and stresses, including those that may be unprecedented but are no
longer surprising, have disproportionate effects on critical
infrastructures and hence on communities, cities, and megaregions.
Critical infrastructures include buildings and bridges, dams,
levees, and sea walls, as well as power plants and chemical
factories, besides lifeline networks such as multimodal
transportation, power grids, communication, and water or
wastewater. The growing interconnectedness of natural-built-human
systems causes cascading infrastructure failures and necessitates
simultaneous recovery. This text explores the new paradigm centered
on the concept of resilience by approaching the challenges posed by
globalization, climate change, and growing urbanization on critical
infrastructures and key resources through the combination of policy
and engineering perspectives. It identifies solutions that are
scientifically credible, data driven, and sound in engineering
principles while concurrently informed by and supportive of social
and policy imperatives. Critical Infrastructures Resilience will be
of interest to students of engineering and policy.
This text offers comprehensive and principled, yet practical,
guidelines to critical infrastructures resilience. Extreme events
and stresses, including those that may be unprecedented but are no
longer surprising, have disproportionate effects on critical
infrastructures and hence on communities, cities, and megaregions.
Critical infrastructures include buildings and bridges, dams,
levees, and sea walls, as well as power plants and chemical
factories, besides lifeline networks such as multimodal
transportation, power grids, communication, and water or
wastewater. The growing interconnectedness of natural-built-human
systems causes cascading infrastructure failures and necessitates
simultaneous recovery. This text explores the new paradigm centered
on the concept of resilience by approaching the challenges posed by
globalization, climate change, and growing urbanization on critical
infrastructures and key resources through the combination of policy
and engineering perspectives. It identifies solutions that are
scientifically credible, data driven, and sound in engineering
principles while concurrently informed by and supportive of social
and policy imperatives. Critical Infrastructures Resilience will be
of interest to students of engineering and policy.
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