Climate Change and Civil Infrastructure – serie

The design, analysis, maintenance, operations, economics, and life cycle of civil infrastructure is very dependent upon climatic effects. Climate change can have immense effects on the performance and well-being of civil infrastructures, and this book examines how climate change can directly affect civil infrastructure, how different types of infrastructure are affected, and more importantly, how stakeholders can prepare for and counter such changes and approach decision-making in an optimal manner. It includes numerous case studies and examples that help illustrate the different points and methodologies presented.Presents a comprehensive road map on how to plan for and address climate change effects on civil infrastructure.Includes case studies and examples that help illustrate the different points and methodologies presented.Presents numerous theoretical and analytical tools to establish potential impacts.Examines the changes in demands, increased vulnerabilities (or capacity decrease), consequences, and potential links between all of those factors.

The design, analysis, maintenance, operations, economics, and life cycle of civil infrastructure is very dependent upon climatic effects. Climate change can have immense effects on the performance and well-being of civil infrastructures, and this book examines how climate change can directly affect civil infrastructure, how different types of infrastructure are affected, and more importantly, how stakeholders can prepare for and counter such changes and approach decision-making in an optimal manner. It includes numerous case studies and examples that help illustrate the different points and methodologies presented.Presents a comprehensive road map on how to plan for and address climate change effects on civil infrastructure.Includes case studies and examples that help illustrate the different points and methodologies presented.Presents numerous theoretical and analytical tools to establish potential impacts.Examines the changes in demands, increased vulnerabilities (or capacity decrease), consequences, and potential links between all of those factors.

Climate change challenges are unlike any hazard that infrastructure and related shareholders have faced for millennia. These challenges, and the systems that are vulnerable to them, as well as the resulting consequences (social, economic, physical, natural, health, costs, etc.), are interrelated in countless ways and span regions, countries, oceans, and continents. The design, analysis, maintenance, operations, economics, and life cycle of civil infrastructure are dependent upon climatic effects, and this book addresses the intersections between climate change, infrastructures, and related decision paradigms, such as risk, resilience, preparedness, adaptation, or mitigation, from the viewpoint of climate change demands.Presents an objective categorization of climate change demands as related to civil infrastructure and society.Offers a comprehensive roadmap on how to plan for and address climate change effects on civil infrastructure.Includes numerous objective and practical case studies throughout to highlight important subjects.