- Title
- Introduction to climate adaptation engineering
- Creator
- Stewart, Mark G.; Bastidas-Arteaga, Emilio
- Relation
- Climate Adaptation Engineering: Risks and Economics for Infrastructure Decision-Making p. 3-36
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-816782-3.00001-2
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Climate change predictions announced significant changes in the current weather patterns that could increase infrastructure vulnerability. Since infrastructure assets are of primary importance for protecting human lives and for providing fundamental societal and economical services, the adaptation of these infrastructure to new demands induced by climate changes becomes paramount for future sustainable development. Within this framework this chapter poses the basis of a concept called ‘Climate Adaptation Engineering’ that aim to improve the response of built infrastructure to future potential climate change effects based on a rational risk-based decision support. The chapter starts by introducing and reviewing basic concepts about climate change impacts and scenarios. This literature review justifies the introduction of a risk-based decision support that integrates climate and hazard, engineering, and fragility models, as well as economical decision tools to perform a comprehensive assessment of the cost-effectiveness of adaptation measures. This risk-based decision support will be illustrated with various study cases in the following chapters of this book.
- Subject
- risk; climate change; cost-benefit analysis; infrastructure; climate adaptation; SDG 8; SDG 9; SDG 13; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1474305
- Identifier
- uon:49261
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780128167823
- Language
- eng
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