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Mehvar, Seyedabdolhossein, Kathelijne Wijnberg, Bas Borsje, et al. "Review article: Towards resilient vital infrastructure systems – challenges, opportunities, and future research agenda." Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 21, no. 5 (2021): 1383–407. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-1383-2021.
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Abstract. Infrastructure systems are inextricably tied to society by providing a variety of vital services. These systems play a fundamental role in reducing the vulnerability of communities and increasing their resilience to natural and human-induced hazards. While various definitions of resilience for infrastructure systems exist, analyzing the resilience of these systems within cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary perspectives remains limited and fragmented in research and practice. With the aim to assist researchers and practitioners in advancing understanding of resilience in designing infrastructure systems, this systematic literature review synthesizes and complements existing knowledge on designing resilient vital infrastructures by identifying (1) key conceptual tensions and challenges, (2) engineering and non-engineering measures, and (3) directions for future research. Here, a conceptual framework is developed in which infrastructures are defined as a conglomeration of interdependent social–ecological–technical systems. In addition, we define resilient infrastructures as systems with ability to (i) anticipate and absorb disturbances, (ii) adapt/transform in response to changes, (iii) recover, and (iv) learn from prior unforeseen events. Our results indicate that conceptual and practical challenges in designing resilient infrastructures continue to exist. Hence these systems are still being built without taking resilience explicitly into account. Our review of measures and recent applications shows that the available measures have not been widely applied in designing resilient infrastructure systems. Key concerns to address are identified as (i) the integration of social, ecological, and technical resilience of infrastructure systems with explicit attention paid to cascading effects and dependencies across these complex systems and (ii) the development of new technologies to identify factors that create different recovery characteristics.
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Onuoha, D. C., O. G. Ogbo, and M. Amaechi. "The Need for Resilient Infrastructure as an Adaptive Measure for Climate Change." British Journal of Environmental Sciences 10, no. 4 (2022): 17–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.37745/bjes.2013/vol10n4pp1727.
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Climate change is one of the most pressing environmental issues of the 21st century, and its impacts extend to the current society's infrastructure. Consequently, the need for resilient infrastructure to withstand climate impacts becomes paramount. This paper reviewed the need for resilient infrastructure in today's society. Literature was reviewed under three major subcategories viz a viz impacts of climate change on infrastructure, impacts of infrastructural development on climate change, and climate-resilient infrastructure. It was found that the extent to which climate change translates into risks for infrastructure depends upon the interaction of the changing climate hazards with the infrastructure. In Nigeria and Africa at large, many infrastructures give an unsatisfactory performance, and they are short-lived due to technical and non-technical factors. Extreme weather events due to climate change will likely increase disruption to these infrastructures. The paper recommended a great need to overhaul already existing infrastructure to withstand climate change disruptions better.
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Hudson, Stephen, David Cormie, Edward Tufton, and Stuart Inglis. "Engineering resilient infrastructure." Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Civil Engineering 165, no. 6 (2012): 5–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/cien.11.00065.
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Atkinson, Cameron, Steven Curnin, and Hannah Murphy-Gregory. "Resilient and Sustainable Water Infrastructure." Social Science Protocols 5, no. 1 (2022): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.7565/ssp.v5.6966.
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Background: Lifeline critical infrastructures are pivotal for the uninterrupted flow of goods and services that are crucial to the functioning of society (Singh, 2021). This review will be the second in a series of four systematic literature reviews examining the resilience and sustainability of critical lifeline infrastructures in Australia, with a focus on the state of Tasmania. The first SLR examined energy infrastructure. The recent passing of the 2021 Security Legislation Amendment (Critical Infrastructure) Bill in Australia, coupled with the lack of a governing document at the state level in Tasmania, necessitates a review to uncover the governance settings, which will aide in increasing the resilience and sustainability of water infrastructures, contributing to broader critical lifeline infrastructure resilience, in Tasmania.
 Methods/Design: Following the 2015 PRISMA-P (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic review and Meta-Analysis Protocols), the review focuses on scholarly sources that address the governance of water infrastructures. In addition to governance settings, secondary evidence is sought regarding interruptions to water infrastructures; policy problems and solutions; and resilience and sustainability definitions.
 Discussion: Findings from this review will contribute to a comprehensive understanding of how the resilience and sustainability of water infrastructures may be enhanced via deeper knowledge of their governance settings. This research is directed at Tasmanian policy-makers, practitioners, industry specialists, and researchers to inform and enhance their decision-making on this important topic.
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Atkinson, Cameron, Steven Curnin, and Hannah Murphy-Gregory. "Resilient and Sustainable Water Infrastructure." Social Science Protocols 5, no. 1 (2022): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.7565/ssp.v5.6966.
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Background: Lifeline critical infrastructures are pivotal for the uninterrupted flow of goods and services that are crucial to the functioning of society (Singh, 2021). This review will be the second in a series of four systematic literature reviews examining the resilience and sustainability of critical lifeline infrastructures in Australia, with a focus on the state of Tasmania. The first SLR examined energy infrastructure. The recent passing of the 2021 Security Legislation Amendment (Critical Infrastructure) Bill in Australia, coupled with the lack of a governing document at the state level in Tasmania, necessitates a review to uncover the governance settings, which will aide in increasing the resilience and sustainability of water infrastructures, contributing to broader critical lifeline infrastructure resilience, in Tasmania.
 Methods/Design: Following the 2015 PRISMA-P (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic review and Meta-Analysis Protocols), the review focuses on scholarly sources that address the governance of water infrastructures. In addition to governance settings, secondary evidence is sought regarding interruptions to water infrastructures; policy problems and solutions; and resilience and sustainability definitions.
 Discussion: Findings from this review will contribute to a comprehensive understanding of how the resilience and sustainability of water infrastructures may be enhanced via deeper knowledge of their governance settings. This research is directed at Tasmanian policy-makers, practitioners, industry specialists, and researchers to inform and enhance their decision-making on this important topic.
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Nozarian, Mahdi, Alireza Fereidunian, Amin Hajizadeh, and Hossein Shahinzadeh. "Exploring Social Capital in Situation-Aware and Energy Hub-Based Smart Cities: Towards a Pandemic-Resilient City." Energies 16, no. 18 (2023): 6479. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en16186479.
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Although the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic has appears to have subsided in most parts of the world, nevertheless, in addition to six million deaths, it has yielded unprecedented challenges in the economy, energy, education, urban services, and healthcare sectors. Meanwhile, based on some reports, smart solutions and technologies have had significant success in achieving pandemic-resilient cities. This paper reviews smart city initiatives and contributions to the prevention and treatment of coronavirus disease, as well as reducing its destructive impact, leading towards pandemic-resilient economic and health systems. Furthermore, the situational awareness contributions are reviewed in pandemic-resilient governance. The main contribution of this study is to describe the construction of social capital in smart cities as a facilitator in creating a pandemic-resilient society in crisis through two analyses. Moreover, this research describes smart cities’ energy as interconnection of energy hubs (EHs) that leads to a high level of resiliency in dealing with the main challenges of the electricity industry during the pandemic. Energy-hub-based smart cities can contribute to designing pandemic-resilient energy infrastructure, which can significantly affect resilience in economic and health infrastructure. In brief, this paper describes a smart city as a pandemic-resilient city in the economic, energy, and health infrastructural, social, and governmental areas.
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Atkinson, Cameron Frederick. "Resilient and Sustainable Energy Infrastructure." Social Science Protocols 5, no. 1 (2022): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.7565/ssp.v5.6608.
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Background: Critical infrastructure resilience and sustainability are key components of both the 2015 Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, as well as the 2015 Sustainable Development Goals (Panda & Ramos, 2020). The recent passing of the 2021 Security Legislation Amendment (Critical Infrastructure) Bill in Australia, coupled with the lack of a governing document at the state level in Tasmania, necessitates a review to uncover the governance settings, which will aide in increasing the resilience and sustainability of energy infrastructures in Tasmania.
 Methods/Design: Following the 2015 PRISMA-P (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic review and Meta-Analysis Protocols), the review will focus on scholarly sources that address the governance of energy infrastructures. An initial deductive data extraction template has been created to help structure data extraction from included studies. In addition to governance settings, secondary evidence will be sought regarding interruptions to energy infrastructures; policy problems and solutions; and resilience and sustainability definitions. Should other themes emerge, the data extraction template will be updated.
 Discussion: Findings from this review will contribute to a more complete understanding of how the resilience and sustainability of energy infrastructures may be increased via deeper knowledge of their governance settings. Tasmanian policy-makers, practitioners, industry specialists, and researchers may use this research to inform and enhance their decision-making on this important topic.
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Atkinson, Cameron Frederick. "Resilient and Sustainable Energy Infrastructure." Social Science Protocols 5, no. 1 (2022): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.7565/ssp.v5.6608.
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Background: Critical infrastructure resilience and sustainability are key components of both the 2015 Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, as well as the 2015 Sustainable Development Goals (Panda & Ramos, 2020). The recent passing of the 2021 Security Legislation Amendment (Critical Infrastructure) Bill in Australia, coupled with the lack of a governing document at the state level in Tasmania, necessitates a review to uncover the governance settings, which will aide in increasing the resilience and sustainability of energy infrastructures in Tasmania.
 Methods/Design: Following the 2015 PRISMA-P (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic review and Meta-Analysis Protocols), the review will focus on scholarly sources that address the governance of energy infrastructures. An initial deductive data extraction template has been created to help structure data extraction from included studies. In addition to governance settings, secondary evidence will be sought regarding interruptions to energy infrastructures; policy problems and solutions; and resilience and sustainability definitions. Should other themes emerge, the data extraction template will be updated.
 Discussion: Findings from this review will contribute to a more complete understanding of how the resilience and sustainability of energy infrastructures may be increased via deeper knowledge of their governance settings. Tasmanian policy-makers, practitioners, industry specialists, and researchers may use this research to inform and enhance their decision-making on this important topic.
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Etiko, Anne. "Urban Geology and Infrastructure Resilience." Journal of Physical Sciences 5, no. 1 (2024): 26–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.47941/jps.1628.
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Purpose: The main objective of this study was to explore urban geology and infrastructure resilience.
 Methodology: The study adopted a desktop research methodology. Desk research refers to secondary data or that which can be collected without fieldwork. Desk research is basically involved in collecting data from existing resources hence it is often considered a low cost technique as compared to field research, as the main cost is involved in executive’s time, telephone charges and directories. Thus, the study relied on already published studies, reports and statistics. This secondary data was easily accessed through the online journals and library.
 Findings: The findings revealed that there exists a contextual and methodological gap relating to urban geology and infrastructure resilience. Preliminary empirical review revealed that urban geology and infrastructure resilience is essential in the face of rapid urbanization and increasing geological hazards. It emphasizes the vulnerability of urban infrastructure to geological risks, such as earthquakes and landslides, and highlights the need for improved building codes, construction practices, and infrastructure design. The research has broader implications for urban planning and policy-making, encouraging the integration of geological knowledge into decisions about land use and infrastructure investments. Furthermore, it contributes to innovative engineering techniques and technologies aimed at enhancing infrastructure resilience. Overall, understanding the relationship between urban geology and infrastructure resilience is crucial for creating safe, sustainable, and resilient urban environments.
 Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: The Resilience Theory, Social-Ecological Systems (SES) Theory and Complexity Theory may be used to anchor future studies on urban geology. The study recommended that to enhance urban geology and infrastructure resilience, it is vital to integrate geological factors into urban planning, invest in resilient infrastructure, promote risk communication and community engagement, foster cross-disciplinary collaboration, and continually monitor and adapt to changing geological conditions. This comprehensive approach involves early geological assessments in urban development, funding for resilient infrastructure, public education, community involvement, interdisciplinary research, and ongoing monitoring to ensure cities can withstand geological hazards and build sustainable, safe urban environments.
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Garshasbi, Maryam, Golam Kabir, and Subhrajit Dutta. "Stormwater Infrastructure Resilience Assessment against Seismic Hazard Using Bayesian Belief Network." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20, no. 16 (2023): 6593. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20166593.
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Resilient stormwater infrastructure is one of the fundamental components of resilient and sustainable cities. For this, the resilience assessment of stormwater infrastructure against earthquake hazards is crucial for municipal authorities. The objective of this study is to develop a resilience assessment framework for stormwater pipe infrastructure against seismic hazards. A Bayesian belief network (BBN)-based stormwater infrastructure resilience model is constructed based on the published literature and expert knowledge. The developed framework is implemented in the city of Regina, Canada, to assess the city’s stormwater pipe infrastructure resilience. The outcome of the model indicates that proposed BBN-based stormwater infrastructure resilience model can effectively quantify uncertainties and handle the nonlinear relationships between several reliability and recovery factors. The model is also capable of identifying the most sensitive and vulnerable stormwater pipes within the network.
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LYSENKO, SERGII, DMYTRO SOKALSKYI, and IIANA MYKHASKO. "METHODS FOR CYBERATTACKS DETECTION IN THE COMPUTER NETWORKS AS A MEAN OF RESILIENT IT-INFRASTRUCTURE CONSTRUCTION: STATE-OF-ART." Computer systems and information technologies, no. 3 (April 14, 2022): 31–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.31891/csit-2021-5-4.
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The paper presents a state-of-art of the methods for cyberattacks detection in the computer networks. The main accent was made on the concept of the resilience for the IT infrastructure. The concept of cyber resilience in the terms of cybersecurity was presented. The survey includes the set of approaches devoted to the problem of construction resilient infrastructures. All investigated approaches are aimed to construct and maintain infrastructure’s resilience for cyberattacks resistance. Mentioned techniques and frameworks keep the main principles to assure resilience. To do this there exists some requirements to construct such infrastructure: IT infrastructure has to include the set ready to use measures of preparation concerning the possible cyber threats; it must include the set of special measures for the protection, as well as for cyberattacks detection; important issue and required is the possibility to respond the attack and to be able to absorb the negative attacks’ impact; IT infrastructure must be as adaptive as it is possible, because today the dynamic of the attacks mutation is very high; IT infrastructure must be recoverable after the attacks were performed. In addition, the state-of-art found out that known approaches have domain-specific usage and it is important to develop new approaches and frameworks for the cyberattacks detection in the computer networks as a means of resilient IT-infrastructure construction.
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Sharma, Ankita, and Prateek Arora. "Resilience of Networks in Intelligent Urban Environments." International Research Journal of Computer Science 10, no. 11 (2023): 488–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.26562/irjcs.2023.v1011.01.
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As urban areas develop to integrate new technology, smart city infrastructures depend significantly on seamless and resilient networks for operational stability, safety, and service continuity. This article examines the essential significance of robust network infrastructure in smart cities and emphasizes techniques aimed at maintaining uninterrupted connectivity during disasters, network failures, or peak demand periods. This article seeks to deliver a thorough analysis of resilient network practices that protect vital infrastructure, sustain data flows, and facilitate key services by investigating real-world case studies, contemporary best practices, and available technology. Principal findings underscore the incorporation of decentralized networking models, adaptive routing protocols, and hybrid connectivity systems as vital components in enhancing smart city resilience.
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Sarker, Partha, and Henry D. Lester. "Post-Disaster Recovery Associations of Power Systems Dependent Critical Infrastructures." Infrastructures 4, no. 2 (2019): 30. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/infrastructures4020030.
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The complete failure of the power systems infrastructure in Puerto Rico, following Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, severely hampered the recovery efforts of multiple critical infrastructure systems (CIS). Understanding the relationships of infrastructure recovery efforts between power infrastructure systems and the other CIS has the potential to be a key in developing an effective recovery plan leading to resilient infrastructure systems, and thereby a more resilient community. This paper explores the critical interfaces and interdependencies in CIS recovery by examining the disruptions and recovery progress of the CIS, including the power infrastructure systems, in Puerto immediately following the events of Hurricane Maria. This research uncovers that strong CIS recovery interdependency relationships exist between the power infrastructure systems and other CIS in Puerto Rico, and these relationships contribute to the resilience of these CIS. The resultant CIS recovery associations may potentially predict the recovery progress of post-disaster CIS recovery centered on the power infrastructure systems and lay the groundwork for further interdependency analysis of CIS in post-disaster scenarios. The results may also be helpful while designing CIS for resiliency in natural disaster areas.
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Rahmat, Abdul Khabir, and Abdul Hakim Abdul Razak. "Unveiling Urban Dynamics: A Bidirectional Analysis of Resilience and Logistics Performance in The Face of Global Challenges." GATR Journal of Management and Marketing Review (GATR JMMR) VOL. 9 (2) April - June 2024 jmmr.2024.9, no. 2 (2024): 57–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.35609/jmmr.2024.9.2(1).
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Objective - This research investigates the intricate interplay between urban resilience and logistics performance, focusing on the Resilient Cities Index and the Logistics Performance Index (LPI) for the year 2023. Methodology/Technique - The study employs multiple regression analysis to explore how components of the Resilient Cities Index impact the LPI and vice versa, utilizing data from 25 cities globally. Findings – Noteworthy findings include that critical infrastructure and socio-institutional factors significantly influence logistics performance, underscoring the bidirectional relationship between urban resilience and logistics efficiency. The analysis reveals that cities with robust tracking and tracing capabilities exhibit higher resilience levels, while infrastructure and international shipment scores present complex, context-dependent relationships with urban resilience. Novelty - These insights provide a novel understanding of how logistics components contribute to urban resilience and suggest that enhancing critical infrastructure, improving socio-institutional frameworks, and addressing specific logistics components are pivotal for fostering resilient and efficient urban systems. Type of Paper: Empirical JEL Classification: R40, R11, O18. Keywords: Urban Resilience; Logistics Performance; Resilient Cities Index; Logistics Performance Index; Bidirectional Relationship; Critical Infrastructure; Socio-Institutional Frameworks; Regression Analysis; Sustainable Urban Development. Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Rahmat, A.K; Razak, A.H.A. (2024). Unveiling Urban Dynamics: A Bidirectional Analysis of Resilience and Logistics Performance in The Face of Global Challenges, J. Mgt. Mkt. Review, 9(2), 57 – 65. https://doi.org/10.35609/jmmr.2024.9.2(1)
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Moridpour, Sara, Xiaobo Qu, Nirajan Shiwakoti, and Samiul Hasan. "Sustainable and Resilient Transport Infrastructure." Journal of Advanced Transportation 2021 (March 14, 2021): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/1576315.
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Santora, Marc, and Rande Wilson. "Resilient and Sustainable Water Infrastructure." Journal - American Water Works Association 100, no. 12 (2008): 40–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.1551-8833.2008.tb09798.x.
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Williamson, Matthew M. "Resilient infrastructure for network security." Complexity 9, no. 2 (2003): 34–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cplx.20005.
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He, Zheng, Genda Wang, Huihua Chen, and Hongyan Yan. "Is Resilient Transportation Infrastructure Low-Carbon? Evidence from High-Speed Railway Projects in China." Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience 2022 (April 28, 2022): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/3138413.
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Establishing resilient transport infrastructure is an effective way for cities to deal with external disturbances and uncertainties during rapid urbanization. However, human society is presently facing a series of sustainable development obstacles, where the energy shortage and environmental pollution are catching significant concerns. Hence, it is imperative to investigate the carbon emission of the growing number of resilient transportation infrastructure (RTI) projects. Through extracting the carbon emission factor (CEF), this study built the carbon emission measurement model (CEMM) to evaluate the carbon emission of 26 resilient high-speed railway construction projects in China. The results indicated that the carbon emissions of the entire high-speed railway infrastructure projects in China show regional and social environmental differences. Meanwhile, there are potential correlations and positive relationships between the resilience of the high-speed railway infrastructure projects and their carbon emission. Suggestions and recommendations for governments and construction enterprises are put forward to further improve the resilient and low-carbon development of transportation infrastructure in China.
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Doorn, Neelke. "How can resilient infrastructures contribute to social justice? Preface to the special issue of sustainable and resilient infrastructure on resilience infrastructures and social justice." Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure 4, no. 3 (2019): 99–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23789689.2019.1574515.
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Forcellini, Davide. "A Novel Methodology to Assess Seismic Resilience (SR) of Interconnected Infrastructures." Applied Sciences 12, no. 24 (2022): 12975. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app122412975.
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Modern and smart cities are significantly vulnerable to natural hazard, and their functionality is based on resilient infrastructure systems. In particular, seismic resilience may be considered the ability to deliver services during and after hazard events. Therefore, it is fundamental to identify the most critical components within a system, especially when multiple infrastructure systems are interdependent. The paper aims to propose a novel methodology that consider interconnected infrastructures to assess seismic resilience that may be defined as a function that depends on time, and the different components are considered the functional dimensions. The proposed methodology may be applied for several typologies of infrastructures, specifically looking at the seismic resilience analyses related to transportation systems. A case study has been considered in order to apply the proposed formulation and to demonstrate the importance of considering interdependency in the assessment of the seismic resilience. Many stakeholders (infrastructure owners, public administrations, decision makers) may be interested in applying the methodology that could be used to study several applications.
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Rahmat, Abdul Khabir, Abdul Hakim Abdul Razak, Muhd Hafizee Shahri, et al. "Unveiling Urban Dynamics: A Bidirectional Analysis of Resilience and Logistics Performance In The Face Of Global Challenges." Global Conference on Business and Social Sciences Proceeding 16, no. 1 (2024): 31. https://doi.org/10.35609/gcbssproceeding.2024.1(31).
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The research investigates the intricate interplay between urban resilience and logistics performance, focusing on the Resilient Cities Index and the Logistics Performance Index (LPI) for the year 2023. As cities globally grapple with unprecedented environmental and geopolitical challenges, understanding the relationship between their resilience and logistical efficiency becomes crucial. The study employs regression analysis to explore how components of the Resilient Cities Index impact the LPI and vice versa, utilizing data from 25 cities. Noteworthy findings include Critical Infrastructure and Socio-Institutional factors significantly influencing logistics performance, highlighting the bidirectional relationship between urban resilience and logistics efficiency. The analysis provides valuable insights for policymakers, suggesting that strengthening critical infrastructure, improving socio-institutional frameworks, and addressing specific logistics components can enhance both urban resilience and logistics performance. The research contributes to informed policy decisions and strategic urban planning, emphasizing the need for an integrated approach to foster sustainable and adaptive urban environments. Keywords: Urban Resilience; Logistics Performance; Resilient Cities Index; Logistics Performance Index; Bidirectional Relationship; Critical Infrastructure; Socio-Institutional Frameworks; Regression Analysis; Sustainable Urban Development.
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Monstadt, Jochen, and Olivier Coutard. "Cities in an era of interfacing infrastructures: Politics and spatialities of the urban nexus." Urban Studies 56, no. 11 (2019): 2191–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098019833907.
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Over the last few years, nexus-thinking has become a buzzword in urban research and practice. This also applies to recent claims of greater integration or coordination of urban infrastructures that have traditionally been managed separately and have been unbundled. The idea is to better address their growing sociotechnical complexity, their externalities and their operation within an urban system of systems. This article introduces a collection of case studies aimed at critically appraising how concepts of nexus and infrastructure integration have become guiding visions for the development of green, resilient or smart cities. It assesses how concepts of nexus and calls for higher interconnectivity and ‘co-management’ within and across infrastructure domains often forestall more politically informed discussions and downplay potential risks and institutional restrictions. Based on an urban political and sociotechnical approach, the introduction to this special issue centres around four major research gaps: 1) the tensions between calls for infrastructure re-bundling and the urban trends and realities driven by infrastructure restructuring since the 1990s; 2) the existing boundary work in cities and urban stakeholders’ practices in bringing fragmented urban infrastructures together; 3) the politics involved in infrastructural and urban change and in aligning urban infrastructures that often defy managerial rhetoric of resource efficiency, smartness and resilience; and 4) the spatialities at play in infrastructural reconfigurations that selectively promote specific spaces and scales of metabolic autonomy, system operation (and failure), networked interconnectivities and system regulation. We conclude by outlining directions for future research.
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Sun, Ruijiao, Yisheng Liu, and Jianghu Zhao. "Innovation Network Reconfiguration Makes Infrastructure Megaprojects More Resilient." Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience 2022 (September 15, 2022): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/1727030.
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Innovation management of infrastructure megaprojects is a challenging task. There are many risks in the process of innovation in engineering technology, such as shortage of funds, policy fluctuations, and difficulties in the transformation of achievements. Meanwhile, innovation organizations involve multiple participants, which makes cooperation complicated. Therefore, resilient innovation is proposed and considered as a tool that can optimize innovation management. The resilience of innovation depends largely on partnerships at the organizational level, which is rarely explored in current studies. This research aims to examine the relationship between organizational resilience and innovation network characteristics. Based on a survey of 164 participants in infrastructure innovation projects, the structural equation model (SEM) is used to explore the factors that influence organizational resilience. The findings show that there is a positive correlation between network characteristics and organizational resilience. Furthermore, the strength of network connections has a direct impact on the preventive and resistance ability of resilience. Network heterogeneity has an impact on the dual ability of resilience. Finally, a case study of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway innovation network shows that based on the above influence paths, we can find a strategy to reconstruct the network to improve resilience.
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Dawson, Maurice, Robert Bacius, Luis Borges Gouveia, and Andreas Vassilakos. "Understanding the Challenge of Cybersecurity in Critical Infrastructure Sectors." Land Forces Academy Review 26, no. 1 (2021): 69–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/raft-2021-0011.
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Abstract The cybersecurity of critical infrastructures is an essential topic within national and international security as 16 critical infrastructure sectors touch various aspects of American society. Because the failure to provide adequate cybersecurity controls within the critical infrastructure sectors renders the country open to an attack that could have a debilitating effect on security, national public health, safety, and economic security, this matter is so vital that there is the Presidential Policy Directive (PPD) 21 Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience advances a national policy to strengthen and maintain secure, functioning and resilient critical infrastructure. An organization identified as the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has the mission to be the risk advisor for the United States (US). Other organizations, such as the National Security Agency (NSA), have approved a specific Knowledge Unit (KU) to address cybersecurity for critical infrastructures associated with doctoral-level granting programs. To address this challenge, it is necessary to identify threats better and defend against them while mitigating risks to an acceptable level. Only then can a nation build a more secure and resilient infrastructure for the future while defending against present-day bad actors as cyberwarfare, cyber espionage, and cybersecurity attacks are the modern-day threats that need to be addressed in planning, designing, implementation, and maintenance. Therefore, the researchers developed a case study reviewing threats against different sectors defined in the PPD.
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Trowsdale, Sam, Kelly Boyle, and Tom Baker. "Politics, water management and infrastructure." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 378, no. 2168 (2020): 20190208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2019.0208.
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While modern water management has been central to the achievement of a range of beneficial social outcomes, it has increasingly drawn criticism for its disconnection from democratic decision-making, hindering efforts to develop more resilient systems. This paper examines how an experiment with more resilient water infrastructure politicized centralized water management focusing, in particular, on a stormwater re-use ‘third-pipe’ system at a large residential development in Auckland, New Zealand. Through analysis of resident and expert views on safety, cost and security, the paper attends (1) to the ways in which techno-managerial water management was contested and, thus, politicized through the implementation of the third pipe, and (2) how the mobilization of techno-managerial discourses by water management authorities delegitimized the third-pipe system, rendering it ultimately inoperable. While our case study was thwarted by the de-politicizing apparatus of water management authorities, such experiments offer precedents, resources and hope for more democratic systems of water management. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Urban flood resilience’.
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Bansal, Manasvi. "Climate-resilience Readiness of Emerging Clean Energy Technologies for India’s Energy Transition: A Deep Dive into Select Technologies." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 1395, no. 1 (2024): 012015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1395/1/012015.
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Abstract Sustainability and decarbonization need to be a central component of economic development in the backdrop of climate change, mandates and stakeholder pressures. Climate-resilient infrastructure can significantly contribute to this sustainable and clean development. As energy lies at the heart of decarbonization, this study focuses on one of the critical infrastructures, power sector, and examines the climate-resilience readiness of select clean technologies in light of India’s decarbonization challenge. Battery Energy Storage System (BESS); offshore wind and green hydrogen are studied based on secondary data, incorporating an exploratory and descriptive research design, while using the logic of deduction. Research sets out the barriers faced by India’s power sector in climate-resiliency transition, identifies indicators for measuring climate-resilience and assesses select technologies for their climate-resilience readiness for India’s energy transition. Barriers fall under 5 key categories – technical, monetary, governance, data and social. Indicators for resilience measurement encompass themes of reliability, robustness and resourcefulness. Resilience assessment reveals that BESS, offshore wind and green hydrogen are climate-resilient technologies, albeit, not without gaps which demand policy interventions. Although climate-resilience readiness of clean energy technologies will be of significance, 4 levers of energy transition will hold equal value – policy and regulations, technology, sustainable financing and ESG considerations.
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Ali, Noora Jamal, Noor Amer Hamzah, Ahmed Dheyaa Radhi, Yitong Niu, Poh Soon JosephNg, and Jamal Fadhil Tawfeq. "5G-backed resilience and quality enhancement in internet of medical things infrastructure for resilient infrastructure." TELKOMNIKA (Telecommunication Computing Electronics and Control) 22, no. 2 (2024): 372. http://dx.doi.org/10.12928/telkomnika.v22i2.24863.
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Clark, Andrew M. "On Developing Disaster Resilient Communications Infrastructure." Marine Technology Society Journal 40, no. 4 (2006): 27–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.4031/002533206787353132.
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The August 29, 2005 landfall of Hurricane Katrina on the U.S. Gulf Coast revealed a number of local, regional, state and national shortcomings. Destruction of communications infrastructure hindered emergency response during and immediately after the storm and further contributed to a lagging recovery and rebuilding process. While critical of some government agencies' actions, The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina Lessons Learned Report compiled by the White House specifically cited the vital role that the U.S. private sector played through their voluntary response. This paper explores the response by some of the U.S. communications technology industry. Detailed are some of the technologies that were deployed and how each was employed to re-establish communication lifelines during the Katrina recovery effort. While simple good luck is attributed to facilitating the positive outcomes described, recommendations are provided that would ensure flexible solutions are in place for future disaster response operations to facilitate timely restoration of communications infrastructure. Though the focus of this paper is on destruction caused by coastal inundation, these solutions are applicable to other natural disasters, accidents, and acts of terrorism.
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Cousijn, Helena, Ginny Hendricks, and Alice Meadows. "Why openness makes research infrastructure resilient." Learned Publishing 34, no. 1 (2021): 71–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/leap.1361.
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Jena, Labanya Prakash. "Financing Climate-Resilient Infrastructure in Cities." Emerging Economy Studies 7, no. 2 (2021): 107–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23949015211070393.
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Cities stand at the forefront of climate adaptation as they face the risk of disastrous climate change impacts. Indian cities are vulnerable to climate change impacts due their geographic location; therefore, they need to build climate-resilient infrastructure to survive, adapt, and grow. Investing in climate-resilient projects will help cities in preventing climate disaster cost and will result in swift recovery from disaster. However, several challenges are constraining Indian cities to finance climate-resilient projects. Cities can use novel ways to raise capital from mainstream financers. Innovative financial instruments, mechanisms, and business models and the judicious use of public capital can help municipalities attract private capital. Cities should smartly select projects and financial instruments and deploy appropriate financial strategy to raise capital from private financers.
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Shami, Khaldoon, Damien Magoni, and Pascal Lorenz. "Autonomous, scalable, and resilient overlay infrastructure." Journal of Communications and Networks 8, no. 4 (2006): 378–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/jcn.2006.6182786.
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Wang, Jianping, Chunming Qiao, and Hongfang Yu. "Resilient virtual infrastructure design and recovery." Optical Switching and Networking 11 (January 2014): 153. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.osn.2013.11.002.
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Ma, Xing, Nawawi Chouw, Mohamed ElGawady, and Songye Zhu. "Resilient Civil Infrastructure under Dynamic Loadings." Shock and Vibration 2018 (June 6, 2018): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/9458023.
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Pathan, Irfan Ullah, Mohammad Mukhlis Behsoodi, Muhammad Sagheer Aslam, and Ezatullah Latifi. "Validating the Climate Resiliency Framework for Road Projects in KPK, Pakistan." Scientific Journal of Engineering, and Technology 1, no. 2 (2024): 19–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.69739/sjet.v1i2.139.
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This study validates a recently developed framework aimed at assessing the climate resiliency of road projects, recognizing the increasing impact of climate change on infrastructure, especially transportation networks such as roads. The framework provides a standardized and systematic approach for evaluating how well road projects can withstand and adapt to climate change impacts, including challenges like flooding, extreme temperatures, and rising sea levels. Conducting the research through a case study approach, we applied the framework to three specific road projects: Drabo Road, Chino Road, and Shahi-Barawal Road. The results revealed the resiliency scores for each project—Drabo Road scored 55.5%, indicating a partially resilient status; Chino Road received a score of 47.9%, signifying an acceptable status with room for improvement, also classified as partially resilient; Shahi-Barawal Road obtained a score of 50.2%, placing it in an acceptable and partially resilient category. This investigation showcases the framework's effectiveness in identifying vulnerabilities and recommending adaptation measures. The research contributes to the development of a practical tool that can assist engineers, planners, and policymakers in making informed decisions regarding the design, construction, and maintenance of road infrastructure in the face of climate change. Ultimately, the goal is to enhance the overall resilience of road projects and minimize potential damage caused by climate change impacts.
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Irfan, Ullah Pathan, Mukhlis Behsoodi Mohammad, Sagheer Aslam Muhammad, and Latifi Ezatullah. "Validating the Climate Resiliency Framework for Road Projects in KPK, Pakistan." Scientific Journal of Engineering, and Technology 1, no. 2 (2024): 19–23. https://doi.org/10.69739/sjet.v1i2.139.
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This study validates a recently developed framework aimed at assessing the climate resiliency of road projects, recognizing the increasing impact of climate change on infrastructure, especially transportation networks such as roads. The framework provides a standardized and systematic approach for evaluating how well road projects can withstand and adapt to climate change impacts, including challenges like flooding, extreme temperatures, and rising sea levels. Conducting the research through a case study approach, we applied the framework to three specific road projects: Drabo Road, Chino Road, and Shahi-Barawal Road. The results revealed the resiliency scores for each project—Drabo Road scored 55.5%, indicating a partially resilient status; Chino Road received a score of 47.9%, signifying an acceptable status with room for improvement, also classified as partially resilient; Shahi-Barawal Road obtained a score of 50.2%, placing it in an acceptable and partially resilient category. This investigation showcases the framework's effectiveness in identifying vulnerabilities and recommending adaptation measures. The research contributes to the development of a practical tool that can assist engineers, planners, and policymakers in making informed decisions regarding the design, construction, and maintenance of road infrastructure in the face of climate change. Ultimately, the goal is to enhance the overall resilience of road projects and minimize potential damage caused by climate change impacts.
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Chester, Mikhail, Mounir El Asmar, Samantha Hayes, and Cheryl Desha. "Post-Disaster Infrastructure Delivery for Resilience." Sustainability 13, no. 6 (2021): 3458. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13063458.
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As climate change increases the frequency and intensity of disasters and associated infrastructure damage, Alternative Project Delivery Methods are well positioned to enable innovative contracting and partnering methods for designing and delivering adaptation solutions that are more time- and cost-effective. However, where conventional “build-back-as-before” post-disaster reconstruction occurs, communities remain vulnerable to future disasters of similar or greater magnitude. In this conceptual paper, we draw on a variety of literature and emergent practices to present how such alternative delivery methods of reconstruction projects can systematically integrate “build-back-better” and introduce more resilient infrastructure outcomes. Considering existing knowledge regarding infrastructure resilience, post-disaster reconstruction and project delivery methods, we consider the resilience regimes of rebound, robustness, graceful extensibility, and sustained adaptability to present the potential for alternative project delivery methods to improve the agility and flexibility of infrastructure against future climate-related and other hazards. We discuss the criticality of continued pursuit of stakeholder engagement to support further improvements to project delivery methods, enabling new opportunities for engaging with a broader set of stakeholders, and for stakeholders to contribute new knowledge and insights to the design process. We conclude the significant potential for such methods to enable resilient infrastructure outcomes, through prioritizing resilience alongside time and cost. We also present a visual schematic in the form of a framework for enabling post-disaster infrastructure delivery for resilience outcomes, across different scales and timeframes of reconstruction. The findings have immediate implications for agencies managing disaster recovery efforts, offering decision-support for improving the adaptive capacity of infrastructure, the services they deliver, and capacities of the communities that rely on them.
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Lewis, Ted G., Thomas J. Mackin, and Rudy Darken. "Critical Infrastructure as Complex Emergent Systems." International Journal of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism 1, no. 1 (2011): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijcwt.2011010101.
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The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) charge is to, “Build a safer, more secure, and more resilient America by preventing, deterring, neutralizing, or mitigating the effects of deliberate efforts by terrorists to destroy, incapacitate, or exploit elements of our Nation’s CIKR …” using an all-hazards approach. The effective implementation of this strategy hinges on understanding catastrophes and their potential effect on the functioning of infrastructure. Unfortunately, there has been no unifying theory of catastrophe to guide decision-making, preparedness, or response. In this paper, the authors present a framework based on network science and normal accident theory that can be used to guide policy decisions for homeland security. They show that exceedance probability encompasses operational definitions of risk and resilience and provides a unifying policy framework for homeland security investments. Such an approach allows one to classify hazards as ‘high’ or ‘low’ risk, according to the resiliency exponent, and guide investments toward prevention or response. This framework is applied to cyber exploits and electric power grid systems to illustrate its generality.
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Imran, Ahmed Majid. "Resilience in Civil Infrastructure: Designing for Natural Disasters." KHWARIZMIA 2023 (September 1, 2023): 138–45. https://doi.org/10.70470/khwarizmia/2023/014.
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Climate change has directly affected the increasing intensity and frequency of natural disasters, hence resilient civil infrastructure is essential to climate changes. Within this paper, the principles and approaches to resilient infrastructure systems will be defined. A closer look will be taken to examine suitability in modularity, redundancy, adaptability and community engagement. The learning from analyzed failures of the past, risk assessment approaches, state-of-the-art innovations such as digital twins, self-healing materials, among others, can be synthesized and can help to promote infrastructure systems' robustness and sustainability. The retrofitting of predominate existing infrastructure systems along with integration of living systems are among the most effective, efficient, low-cost and environmentally compatible methods to adopt and develop further towards zero-loss structures. Inclusive processes help to prove that it is possible treating resilience planning fairly to every community member. Most of the discussed and further outlined processes focus on equity to protect both climate vulnerable and naturally vulnerable areas and the communities living those. By collating state-of-the-art technology, advancements, progressions and future goals, this paper aims to help with one of the many scientific approaches of producing more resilient, adaptable to change infrastructure systems in an environmentally aggressive future.
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Li, Bo, Yue Wang, Tong Wang, Xiaoman He, and Jan K. Kazak. "Scenario Analysis for Resilient Urban Green Infrastructure." Land 11, no. 9 (2022): 1481. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land11091481.
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With the advancement of urbanization, the stress on the green infrastructure around the urban agglomeration has intensified, which causes severe ecological problems. The uncertainty of urban growth makes it difficult to achieve effective protection only by setting protection red lines and other rigid measures. It is of practical significance to optimize the resilience of the stressed green infrastructure. To this end, we explore a scenario simulation analysis method for the resilience management of green infrastructure under stress. This research applies artificial neural network cellular automata to simulate the impacts of the Chang-Zhu-Tan urban agglomeration expansion on the green infrastructure in 2030 in three scenarios: no planning control, urban planning control, and ecological protection planning control. Based on the analysis, we identify four green infrastructure areas under stress and formulate resilience management measures, respectively. The results show that: (1) The distribution pattern of green infrastructure under stress is different in three scenarios. Even in the scenario of ecological protection planning and control, urban growth can easily break through the ecological protection boundary; (2) Residential, industrial, and traffic facility land are the main types of urban land causing green infrastructure stress, while forest, shrub, and wetland are the main types of the stressed green infrastructure; (3) Efficient protection of green infrastructure and the management of the urban growth boundary should be promoted by resilient management measures such as urban planning adjustment, regulatory detailed planning, development strength control and setting up the ecological protection facilities for the stressed green infrastructure areas of the planning scenarios and the no-planning control scenarios, for the areas to be occupied by urban land, and for the important ecological corridors. The results of this study provide an empirical foundation for formulating policies and the methods of this study can be applied to urban ecological planning and green infrastructure management practice in other areas as well.
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Adejola, F. O., S. Ngaunje, A. Ogunlolu, et al. "Disaster Resilient Infrastructure: A Bibliometric Analysis of Global Research Trends." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 1342, no. 1 (2024): 012032. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1342/1/012032.
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Abstract The vital role of infrastructure in the delivery of essential services and the severity of disasters globally calls for more research and discourse on disaster resilient infrastructure. Despite the increasing body of knowledge on disaster resilient infrastructure, an assessment of research on the subject is lacking. This study fills this gap by assessing the global research trend in disaster resilient infrastructure. The study adopted a bibliometric analysis with the use of the VOSviewer. The main search words used in the study were “Disaster”, “Resilient”, AND “Infrastructure. Initial extracted papers with these keywords were 1041. After refining based on language, document type, and key words, a total of 278 papers were found suitable for the analysis. The years 2020 to 2022 indicated the highest research outputs while countries with highest number of publication on the subject of disaster-resilient infrastructure were the United States, United Kingdom and Japan. Most of the highly cited works were review-based, case studies and a few experimental. The findings of this study serve as a source of baseline data on disaster resilient infrastructure which can provide new research directions and also guide the design and implementation of policies on disaster-resilient infrastructure.
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Yang, Yifan, S. Thomas Ng, Frank J. Xu, Martin Skitmore, and Shenghua Zhou. "Towards Resilient Civil Infrastructure Asset Management: An Information Elicitation and Analytical Framework." Sustainability 11, no. 16 (2019): 4439. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11164439.
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It is rather difficult for the stakeholders to understand and implement the resilience concept and principles in the infrastructure asset management paradigm, as it demands quality data, holistic information integration and competent data analytics capabilities to identify infrastructure vulnerabilities, evaluate and predict infrastructure adaptabilities to different hazards, as well as to make damage restoration and resilience improvement strategies and plans. To meet the stakeholder’s urgent needs, this paper proposes an information elicitation and analytical framework for resilient infrastructure asset management. The framework is devised by leveraging the best practices and processes of integrated infrastructure asset management and resilience management in the literature, synergizing the common elements and critical concepts of the two paradigms, ingesting the state-of-the-art interconnected infrastructure systems resilience analytical approaches, and eliciting expert judgments to iteratively improve the derived framework. To facilitate the stakeholders in implementing the framework, two use case studies are given in this paper, depicting the detailed workflow for information integration and resilience analytics in infrastructure asset management. The derived framework is expected to provide an operational basis to the quantitative resilience management of civil infrastructure assets, which could also be used to enhance community resilience.
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Mugisha, John, Ernest Uwayezu, Nelly John Babere, and Wilbard Jackson Kombe. "Fostering Neighbourhood Social–Ecological Resilience Through Land Readjustment in Rapidly Urbanising Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Nunga in Kigali, Rwanda." Urban Science 9, no. 5 (2025): 171. https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci9050171.
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Rapid urbanisation in Sub-Saharan Africa demands innovative land management strategies that promote sustainable, inclusive, and resilient urban development. This study investigates the potential of land readjustment (LR) to foster neighbourhood-scale social–ecological urban resilience (SEUR) through a case study of the Nunga LR project in Kigali, Rwanda. Grounded in the social–ecological system (SES) theory and operationalised through the social–ecological land readjustment model for resilient neighbourhoods, the research evaluates LR practices against an integrated benchmark framework combining LR aspects, neighbourhood design standards, and resilience attributes. The study uses secondary data, project shapefiles, and key informant interviews to assess how Rwanda’s emerging LR model contributes to resilient neighbourhood development. Findings demonstrate strong community mobilisation and adaptive governance capacity. However, critical resilience dimensions—including modularity, green infrastructure integration, land-use diversity, and adaptive feedback mechanisms—were only partially operationalised. Consequently, while LR improved spatial formalisation and basic infrastructure provision, it fell short of creating a truly resilient, multifunctional neighbourhood ecosystem. These findings highlight the need to reframe LR from a purely technical land management tool into a systemic resilience-building mechanism. Policy recommendations include mandating green/blue infrastructure in LR plans, establishing innovative financing mechanisms, institutionalising adaptive monitoring, strengthening affordability safeguards, and promoting multifunctional spatial layouts. The study contributes to urban resilience and land governance scholarship by offering a context-sensitive, empirically tested model for integrating SEUR principles into LR practice in rapidly urbanising African cities. Future research should pursue longitudinal analyses and dynamics modelling of land readjustment impacts to deepen understanding of urban resilience pathways in the Global South.
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Firdaus, Aden, Krishna Suryanto Pribadi, and Muhamad Abduh. "The state of sustainable and disaster-resilient infrastructure in Indonesia." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 1314, no. 1 (2024): 012007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1314/1/012007.
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Abstract This paper discusses the paradigm shift in the way we think about disaster resilience and sustainability in the context of infrastructure, particularly in lower-income and disaster-prone countries like Indonesia. We highlight the importance of resilience as a critical component of sustainability, as it improves the agility and flexibility of infrastructure against future climate-related and other hazards. We discuss the potential trade-offs between disaster-resilient infrastructure and sustainable infrastructure and suggest that decision-makers can use a comprehensive approach that considers the overlap between the physical environment, social dynamics, metabolic flows, and governance networks to address these challenges. To obtain research objectives, a combination of three methods was used, namely policy analysis, case study, and comparative approach. This combination is to get a holistic picture of Indonesia’s conditions. This paper also presents several approaches that can be used to prioritize both resilience and sustainability in infrastructure projects.
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Wang, Hao, Zhiying Huang, Yanqing Liang, et al. "Dynamic evolution of urban infrastructure resilience and its spatial spillover effects: An empirical study from China." PLOS ONE 18, no. 3 (2023): e0282194. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282194.
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Urban infrastructure resilience is an important perspective for measuring the development quality of resilient cities and an important way to measure the level of infrastructure development. This paper uses the kernel density estimation, exploratory spatial data analysis, and spatial econometric models to analyze the characteristics of dynamic evolution and the spillover effects of the infrastructure resilience levels in 283 prefecture-level and above cities in China from 2010 to 2019. Our results are as follows. (1) The overall level of urban infrastructure resilience increased. The eastern region had a higher level than the national average. In contrast, the central, western and north-eastern regions had a slightly lower level than the national average. (2) The areas with high and higher resilience levels were mostly cities with more developed economic and social conditions in Eastern China. The areas below moderate resilience levels show a certain degree of clustering and mainly include some cities in Central, Western, and Northeast China. (3) The national level of urban infrastructure resilience shows significant spatial clustering characteristics, and the spatial pattern from coastal to inland regions presents a hotspot-subhotspot-subcoldspot-coldspot distribution. (4) There is a differential spatial spillover effect of national urban infrastructure resilience, which is gradually strengthened under the role of the economy, financial development, population agglomeration and government funding and weakened under the role of urbanization, market consumption and infrastructure investment. By exploring the dynamic evolution of infrastructure resilience in cities at the prefecture level and above and its spatial spillover effects, we provide a scientific basis for avoiding the siphoning effect among cities, improving the level of infrastructure resilience, and guiding the construction and development of resilient cities.
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Tahir, Muhammad, and Mohd Fadzil Bin Mohd Idris. "Strategies for Resilient Build Back in The Post-Flood Era: An AHP-Dematel Technique." CSID Journal of Infrastructure Development 7, no. 2 (2024): 306–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.7454/jid.v7.i2.1138.
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Pakistan suffered from devastating floods in 2022, causing extensive infrastructural, economic, social, and other damages. Effective risk management was notably absent in the country. Therefore, this paper identifies critical factors influencing the build-back-better (BBB) framework and resilience building. The evaluation of various strategies for risk reduction in infrastructure during floods, ensuring its resilience, is also addressed. This study employs Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) techniques, specifically the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and the Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL), to assess critical factors in BBB in the context of devastating floods. The AHP analysis effectively ranked the identified factors based on their relative weights, while DEMATEL determined the inter-relationships among the parameters, categorizing them into effect and cause groups. The results indicate that improvement in structural design is essential, whereas asset replacement is the least important factor. According to the DEMATEL analysis, Cash-for-Work was the most important causal factor in improving resilience-building procedures. The findings of this study assist policymakers in formulating a risk-resilient framework for enhancing construction strategies and developing a strong and resilient infrastructure, effectively influencing associated stakeholders.
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Ferrari, Mattia. "Reflexive Governance for Infrastructure Resilience and Sustainability." Sustainability 12, no. 23 (2020): 10224. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su122310224.
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Infrastructure development is one of the areas most in need of climate-resilient and friendly investments. The COVID-19 pandemic will increase government spending in this direction. This paper demonstrates how the principles of reflexive governance are key to unlock the full potential of such investments. By establishing an adaptive and redundant institutional capacity in the provision of public services, reflexive governance can enable a successful path towards climate resilience and sustainability.
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Poo, Mark Ching-Pong, Wen Zhang, Leila Kamalian, Tianni Wang, Yui-yip Lau, and Tina Ziting Xu. "Resilience of Chinese Ports to Tropical Cyclones: Operational Efficiency and Strategic Importance." Climate 12, no. 12 (2024): 214. https://doi.org/10.3390/cli12120214.
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This study evaluated the resilience of five major Chinese ports—Shanghai, Tsingtao, Shenzhen, Xiamen, and Qinzhou—against the impacts of tropical cyclones. These ports, as integral global maritime supply chain nodes, face rising vulnerabilities from climate-related disruptions such as typhoons, sea-level rise, and extreme temperature fluctuations. Employing a resilience assessment framework, this study integrated climate and operational data to gauge how cyclone-induced events affect port performance, infrastructure, and economic stability. Multi-centrality analysis and the Borda count method were applied to assess each port’s strategic importance and operational efficiency under cyclone exposure. The findings highlight variations in resilience across the ports, with Shanghai and Tsingtao showing heightened risk due to their critical roles within international logistics networks. This study suggests strategies like strengthening infrastructure, improving emergency responses, and adopting climate-resilient policies to make China’s ports more sustainable and resilient to climate threats. This research offers actionable insights for policymakers and port authorities, contributing to a more climate-resilient maritime logistics framework.
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Dong, Wenli, Yunhan Zhou, Dongliang Guo, Zhehui Chen, and Jiwu Wang. "Evaluation of Urban Infrastructure Resilience Based on Risk–Resilience Coupling: A Case Study of Zhengzhou City." Land 14, no. 3 (2025): 530. https://doi.org/10.3390/land14030530.
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The frequent occurrence of disasters has brought significant challenges to increasingly complex urban systems. Resilient city planning and construction has emerged as a new paradigm for dealing with the growing risks. Infrastructure systems like transportation, lifelines, flood control, and drainage are essential to the operation of a city during disasters. It is necessary to measure how risks affect these systems’ resilience at different spatial scales. This paper develops an infrastructure risk and resilience evaluation index system in city and urban areas based on resilience characteristics. Then, a comprehensive infrastructure resilience evaluation is established based on the risk–resilience coupling mechanism. The overall characteristics of comprehensive infrastructure resilience are then identified. The resilience transmission level and the causes of resilience effects are analyzed based on the principle of resilience scale. Additionally, infrastructure resilience enhancement strategies under different risk scenarios are proposed. In the empirical study of Zhengzhou City, comprehensive infrastructure resilience shows significant clustering in the city area. It is high in the central city and low in the periphery. Specifically, it is relatively high in the southern and northwestern parts of the airport economy zone (AEZ) and low in the center. The leading driving factors in urban areas are risk factors like flood and drought, hazardous materials, infectious diseases, and epidemics, while resilience factors include transportation networks, sponge city construction, municipal pipe networks, and fire protection. This study proposes a “risk-resilience” coupling framework to evaluate and analyze multi-hazard risks and the multi-system resilience of urban infrastructure across multi-level spatial scales. It provides an empirical resilience evaluation framework and enhancement strategies, complementing existing individual dimensional risk or resilience studies. The findings could offer visualized spatial results to support the decision-making in Zhengzhou’s resilient city planning outline and infrastructure special planning and provide references for resilience assessment and planning in similar cities.
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Tachaudomdach, Suchat, Auttawit Upayokin, Nopadon Kronprasert, and Kriangkrai Arunotayanun. "Quantifying Road-Network Robustness toward Flood-Resilient Transportation Systems." Sustainability 13, no. 6 (2021): 3172. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13063172.
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Amidst sudden and unprecedented increases in the severity and frequency of climate-change-induced natural disasters, building critical infrastructure resilience has become a prominent policy issue globally for reducing disaster risks. Sustainable measures and procedures to strengthen preparedness, response, and recovery of infrastructures are urgently needed, but the standard for measuring such resilient elements has yet to be consensually developed. This study was undertaken with an aim to quantitatively measure transportation infrastructure robustness, a proactive dimension of resilience capacities and capabilities to withstand disasters; in this case, floods. A four-stage analytical framework was empirically implemented: (1) specifying the system and disturbance (i.e., road network and flood risks in Chiang Mai, Thailand), (2) illustrating the system response using the damaged area as a function of floodwater levels and protection measures, (3) determining recovery thresholds based on land use and system functionality, and (4) quantifying robustness through the application of edge- and node-betweenness centrality models. Various quantifiable indicators of transportation robustness can be revealed; not only flood-damaged areas commonly considered in flood-risk management and spatial planning, but also the numbers of affected traffic links, nodes, and cars are highly valuable for transportation planning in achieving sustainable flood-resilient transportation systems.
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Israel Afriyie. "Enhancing resilien of transportation infrastructure in the city of Accra." World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews 25, no. 3 (2025): 1506–15. https://doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2025.25.3.0810.
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The city of Accra, Ghana, is experiencing rapid urbanization and increased transportation demands, posing significant challenges to its transportation infrastructure. This study explores strategies for enhancing the resilience of Accra’s transportation system, focusing on mitigating the impacts of climate change, population growth, and urban congestion. By assessing the vulnerabilities of existing transportation networks, the research identifies key weaknesses in the infrastructure, including inadequate drainage systems, traffic congestion, and limited connectivity. The study proposes a multi-faceted approach that incorporates sustainable urban planning, smart transportation technologies, and climate-adaptive infrastructure. Recommendations include the integration of green infrastructure, improved public transit systems, and the adoption of resilient road networks that can withstand extreme weather events. The findings aim to guide policymakers, urban planners, and engineers in building a more resilient and sustainable transportation infrastructure for Accra, ensuring its capacity to support economic growth while minimizing disruptions caused by climate change and urban stresses.