ABSTRACT

To best serve current and future generations, infrastructure needs to be resilient to the changing world while using limited resources in a sustainable manner. Research on and funding towards sustainability and resilience are growing rapidly, and significant research is being carried out at a number of institutions and centers worldwide.

This handbook brings together current research on sustainable and resilient infrastructure and, in particular, stresses the fundamental nexus between sustainability and resilience. It aims to coalesce work from a large and diverse group of contributors across a wide range of disciplines including engineering, technology and informatics, urban planning, public policy, economics, and finance. Not only does it present a theoretical formulation of sustainability and resilience but it also demonstrates how these ideals can be realized in practice. This work will provide a reference text to students and scholars of a number of disciplines.

part I|1 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|10 pages

Toward sustainable and resilient physical systems

Current state and future directions

part II|1 pages

Situating and motivating sustainability and resilience

part III|1 pages

Resilience of different systems

chapter 7|19 pages

Tornado damage modeling

Single buildings, communities, and regions

chapter 13|24 pages

Physics-based fragility functions

Their mathematical formulation and use in the reliability and resilience analysis of transportation infrastructure

chapter 19|16 pages

Cyber threat on critical infrastructure

A growing concern for decision makers

part IV|1 pages

Sustainable materials, design, and construction

part VI|1 pages

The role of dependencies/interdependencies

part IX|1 pages

Smart cities and the role of information and communication technology in achieving sustainability and resilience

part XI|1 pages

The role of urban planning and public policies

part XII|1 pages

Economic considerations and the role of insurance and re-insurance