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Resilient infrastructure [PDF]
Commun Eng, 2022 Today we present a special issue of Communications Engineering exploring various ways in which engineering researchers are engaging with the challenge of building resilient infrastructure for a sustainable future.
Galasso C, McNair J, Fujii M, Dong Z.
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Government is expected to lead the payment of heat-resilient infrastructure [PDF]
iScience, 2023 Summary: Urban heat is severe in numerous cities, but the urgency of heat action and support for the development of heat-resilient infrastructure is unclear. To address these research gaps, this study investigated the perceived urgency of developing heat-
Bao-Jie He, Mingqiang Yin
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InformationThis paper investigates the contribution of the various cybersecurity domains to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), emphasizing the critical role of cybersecurity in advancing sustainable economic growth and resilient IoT ...
Georgia Dede +6 more
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Resilient infrastructure in the Anthropocene
CrimRxiv, 2022 We use a broad range of material such as policy outlines, academic literature, and journalistic research to look at the impacts of natural disasters on critical infrastructures as well as on developments in creating resilient infrastructures, focusing on examples in the United States and Canada with a focus on a case study on Hurricane Maria in Puerto ...
Gabriela Manrique Rueda +2 more
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EURO-CORDEX: A Multi-Model Ensemble Fit for Assessing Future Hydrological Change?
Frontiers in Water, 2022 Human-induced changes in climatic behavior and variations in future river flows has been at the fore-front of recent academic and political discourse. Future climate projections are a vital tool in tackling climate change and supporting future adaptation,
Gordon Aitken +3 more
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Modelling systemic COVID-19 impacts in cities
npj Urban Sustainability, 2022 The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted public health, the economy and society—both directly and indirectly. Few approaches exist to understand these complex impacts in a way that (1) acknowledges cross-sectoral interdependencies; (2) models how short-term ...
Lindsay Beevers +5 more
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Resilient Cities and Structures, 2022 Underground infrastructure (UI) plays a great important role in the urbanization and modernization of megacities in the world. However, the intensive development of the UI during the past decades has posed great risks to the safety of city ...
Hongwei Huang +2 more
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Operational Models of Infrastructure Resilience [PDF]
Risk Analysis, 2015 We propose a definition of infrastructure resilience that is tied to the operation (or function) of an infrastructure as a system of interacting components and that can be objectively evaluated using quantitative models. Specifically, for any particular system, we use quantitative models of system operation to represent the decisions of an ...
Alderson, David L. +2 more
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Buildings, 2023 Given the crucial importance of pavement marking retroreflectivity in ensuring visibility for road safety, this research investigates the correlation between pavement marking reflectivity and LiDAR data.
Dmitry Manasreh +2 more
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Scientific Reports, 2023 A common inference in research studies of observed and projected changes in global ocean wave height and storm surge, is that such changes are potentially important for long-term coastal management.
Mandana Ghanavati +5 more
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