Climate Resilience and Sustainability of Interconnected Critical Infrastructures

Dear Colleagues,

Climate change and extreme events have the potential to substantially affect the lifespan, service levels or even destroy infrastructures, such as the energy, transportation, telecommunications, buildings, marine and water management facilities. Infrastructures are the backbone for the smooth operation of modern societies; their partial unavailability or complete destruction may result in significant impacts to people, environment, and society as well as devastating economic losses. In addition, infrastructures are inherently interconnected and interdependent systems, and thus, their failure frequently leads to domino effects.

This Special Issue aims for contributions relating to all aspects of infrastructures and climate change, such as: (a) assessment of current and dynamically evolving hazards and risks, (b) in-depth knowledge of their vulnerabilities, impacts, and potential cascading effects, also accounting for societal disruption, (c) design and financing sustainable and resilient infrastructures, (d) enhancing defenses to disasters, (e) role of infrastructures in emergency response, (f) integration of strategies for climate change mitigation and long-term adaptation options, and (g) innovative software solutions with high end visualization.

This Special Issue aims to introduce the most recent advances and emerging innovations on addressing potential risks from climate change and future extreme events pertaining to the financing, design, build, and operation of interconnected infrastructures. Such knowledge can act as a viable pathway for making resilient infrastructures. Real world applications and case studies demonstrating tangible results and stakeholder engagement are particularly welcome.

Dr. Athanasios Sfetsos
Guest Editor

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• climate change
• disaster risk reduction
• risk, resilience
• infrastructures
• cities
• climate services