Foreword from the editor-in-chief: the inaugural issue of journal of infrastructure preservation and resilience

Launched by Springer Nature, JIPR aims to provide a cross-disciplinary and international forum for researchers to disseminate innovative research and engineering practices that preserve the integrity, life-cycle performance, and resilience of new or existing infrastructure systems amid diverse climatic conditions, manmade and natural hazards, and other risks. Preservation and monitoring against foundational risks of infrastructures (e.g., bridge scour and slope instability) Preservation and rehabilitation against infrastructure materials-related distresses (corrosion, freeze/thaw damage, alkali-aggregate reactions, cracking, rutting, aging, moisture damage, etc.) Infrastructure system response and resilience (e.g., adaptation to natural or manmade disasters, climate change and extreme weather, as well as social, financial, and technological risks) Decision support and management (e.g., data modelling and resilience assessment, hazard life cycle analysis, risk assessment, characterization/modeling of interdependencies) Transportation geotechnics and geoecology Remote sensing, online monitoring, and non-destructive evaluation of infrastructures Planning, design, construction, operations, inspection, evaluation, retrofitting and reinforcing of existing infrastructure systems. Infrastructure will have to adapt to climate variabilities [4] manifested by increases in extremely hot days, heat waves, rising sea levels coupled with storm surges and land subsidence, intensifying drought-flood cycles, more frequent extreme precipitation, and increased intensity and occurrence of hurricanes. [...]I would like to take this opportunity to thank the associate editors, editorial board members, peer reviewers, contributing authors, and many others for making JIPR and this first issue possible.