1. Toward indicators of the performance of US Infrastructures under climate change risks
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Paul Kirshen, Henry G. Schwartz, Lynn Scarlett, Richard H. Moss, Rae Zimmerman, G. Loren Toole, Michael J. Savonis, Joel B. Smith, Thomas J. Wilbanks, William Solecki, Matthias Ruth, Stephen H. Conrad, Michael S. Matthews, Steven J Fernandez, and Susan Julius
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Atmospheric Science ,Global and Planetary Change ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,media_common.quotation_subject ,0208 environmental biotechnology ,Extreme events ,Climate change ,02 engineering and technology ,01 natural sciences ,Article ,020801 environmental engineering ,Interdependence ,Business ,Adaptation (computer science) ,Resilience (network) ,Environmental planning ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,media_common - Abstract
Built infrastructures are increasingly disrupted by climate-related extreme events. Being able to monitor what climate change implies for US infrastructures is of considerable importance to all levels of decision-makers. A capacity to develop cross-cutting, widely applicable indicators for more than a dozen different kinds of infrastructure, however, is severely limited at present. The development of such indicators must be considered an ongoing activity that will require expansion and refinement. A number of recent consensus reports suggest four priorities for indicators that portray the impacts of climate change, climate-related extreme events, and other driving forces on infrastructure. These are changes in the reliability of infrastructure services and the implications for costs; changes in the resilience of infrastructures to climate and other stresses; impacts due to the interdependencies of infrastructures; and ongoing adaptation in infrastructures.
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- 2021