Toward indicators of the performance of US infrastructures under climate change risks

Thomas J. Wilbanks, Rae Zimmerman, Susan Julius, Paul Kirshen (), Joel B. Smith, Richard Moss, William Solecki, Matthias Ruth, Stephen Conrad, Steven J. Fernandez, Michael S. Matthews, Michael J. Savonis, Lynn Scarlett, Henry G. Schwartz and G. Loren Toole
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Thomas J. Wilbanks: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Rae Zimmerman: New York University
Susan Julius: US Environmental Protection Agency
Paul Kirshen: University of Massachusetts Boston
Joel B. Smith: Consultant
Richard Moss: Princeton University
William Solecki: Hunter College, CUNY
Stephen Conrad: Sandia National Laboratories
Steven J. Fernandez: Almeria Analytics
Michael S. Matthews: US Department of Homeland Security
Michael J. Savonis: ICF International
Lynn Scarlett: The Nature Conservancy
Henry G. Schwartz: HGS Consultants LLC
G. Loren Toole: Los Alamos National Laboratory

Climatic Change, 2020, vol. 163, issue 4, No 8, 1795-1813

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Climate change; Indicators; US infrastructures; Reliability; Resilience; Interdependencies; Adaptation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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