Resilient Infrastructure Systems
A special issue of Infrastructures (ISSN 2412-3811). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Infrastructures".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2019) | Viewed by 60249
Special Issue Editors
Interests: resilient infrastructure; sustainability leadership; innovation; sustainable energy systems; anticipatory life cycle assessment
Interests: resilient infrastructure systems; sustainability; human development; stakeholder engagement; climate change adaptation
Interests: resilience metrics and modeling; risk critical systems; multidimensional sustainability for the corporate and public sectors
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue focuses on “Resilient Infrastructure Systems” from an interdisciplinary perspective, particularly focusing on the technological and social aspects of infrastructure systems. The objective of this issue is to continue building a resilient infrastructure knowledge community that spans sectoral, organizational, and disciplinary boundaries.
Non-stationarity within our climate, social and technical systems prevent the precise predictability of stressors and their potentially cascading and complex impacts. This makes risk analysis, or the practice of estimating risk in a well-defined situation to a well-recognized threat, insufficient for the protection of infrastructure systems on which society depends. As an alternative to risk, the concept of resilience acknowledges the unpredictability and complexity of interdependent infrastructure systems and seeks to transition towards more adaptive, safe-to-fail systems. Although the concept of resilience is well recognized, the methods for operationalizing resilience have yet to be defined. For resilience to be effective it must be holistic, integrating insight from technology, engineering and the social sciences. This holistic approach will enable adaptive management of infrastructure systems in consideration of economic, social and environmental challenges.
The Special Issue aims at publishing high-quality papers, particularly those that integrate both the physical and technological aspects of infrastructure systems with the human dimensions of these systems, including the institutions that govern infrastructure and community resilience. In addition to external submissions through MDPI, this issue will contain selected papers submitted to the Resilient Infrastructure Systems theme of the 2018 International Symposium of Sustainable Systems and Technology (ISSST) to be held in Buffalo, NY in June 2018. Papers will be reviewed by international experts and then widely disseminated by the journal.
Dr. Thomas P Seager
Dr. Susan Spierre Clark
Dr. Jennifer L. Schneider
Dr. Andrea Hicks
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Infrastructure Systems
- Resilience
- Community resilience
- Safe-to-fail
- Adaptive Management
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