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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Part I|1 pages
Introduction
chapter 1|10 pages
Toward sustainable and resilient physical systems
part Part II|1 pages
Situating and motivating sustainability and resilience
part Part III|1 pages
Resilience of different systems
chapter 13|24 pages
Physics-based fragility functions
part Part IV|1 pages
Sustainable materials, design, and construction
chapter 21|15 pages
The need for standardized testing for service life prediction of reinforced concrete
part Part V|1 pages
Merging sustainability and resilience
part Part VI|1 pages
The role of dependencies/interdependencies
chapter 28|24 pages
Regional resilience analysis
part Part VII|1 pages
The role and impact of aging and deterioration, and life-cycle analysis
part Part VIII|1 pages
The role and impact of climate change
chapter 33|16 pages
Hazard-based hurricane loss estimation including climate change impacts
part Part IX|1 pages
Smart cities and the role of information and communication technology in achieving sustainability and resilience
part Part X|1 pages
Multi-objective optimization
part Part XI|1 pages
The role of urban planning and public policies
chapter 40|17 pages
Addressing the infrastructure decay rate in US cities
part Part XII|1 pages
Economic considerations and the role of insurance and re-insurance