Critical infrastructure is a foundational component of a functional society and is under threat from the impacts of climate change. To ensure communities are not left without fundamental …
Anthropogenic climate change poses risks to transport infrastructure that include disrupted operations, reduced lifespan and increased reconstruction and maintenance costs. Efforts to …
Disasters often indirectly cause two impacts that may impede recovery: a decline in the capacity of a system because of failures in its supporting components and a surge in …
K Liu, Y Liu, Y Kou - Safety science, 2024 - Elsevier
The interior and exterior environments of megaprojects are extremely complex and construction safety has long been a concern. However, effective prevention, response and …
S Derrible - Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
In his original 1965 article, Christopher Alexander argued that master planned cities ultimately failed because the designs elaborated followed a tree structure as opposed to a …
Increased attention has lately been given to the resilience of critical infrastructure in the context of natural hazards and disasters. The major focus therein is on the sensitivity of …
M Herberg, GE Torgersen - Frontiers in psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The high impact of unforeseen events in a globalized world accentuates the importance of a greater in-depth and broader understanding of resilient competencies that can promote …
RB Street, S Jude - Climate Policy, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
As increasing evidence shows that the risks of climate change are mounting, there is a call for further climate action (both reducing global emissions, and adaptation to better manage …
Small-scale coastal fishing communities are facing many new challenges, such as rapid ecological changes created by anthropogenic and natural events like earthquakes or …