Keeping infrastructure reliable under climate uncertainty

Keeping infrastructure reliable under climate uncertainty

Characterizing infrastructure vulnerability to climate change is essential given the long asset lives, criticality of services delivered and high costs of upgrading and maintaining these systems. Reconciling uncertainty from past infrastructure design decisions with future uncertainty of climate cha...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nature climate change 2020-06, Vol.10 (6), p.488-490
Hauptverfasser: Chester, Mikhail V., Underwood, B. Shane, Samaras, Constantine
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Sprache:eng
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Climate Change
Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts
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Earth and Environmental Science
Environment
Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice
Infrastructure
Uncertainty
Vulnerability
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Zusammenfassung:Characterizing infrastructure vulnerability to climate change is essential given the long asset lives, criticality of services delivered and high costs of upgrading and maintaining these systems. Reconciling uncertainty from past infrastructure design decisions with future uncertainty of climate change will help prioritize limited resources to high risk assets.
ISSN:1758-678X
1758-6798
DOI:10.1038/s41558-020-0741-0