PA044
Ready for Tomorrow: Strategies for Climate-Resilient Infrastructure

Session ID#: 81913

Session Description:
As climate change impacts emerge ever more forcefully around the globe, decision makers are asking, with increasing urgency, how they can make their communities and businesses more resilient. One obvious place to start is infrastructure. Seven principles for climate-resilient infrastructure were recently articulated by a broad array of authors1, with the objective of helping to ensure that infrastructure is able to continue to deliver its intended services in the coming decades. These principles, which will be addressed in a series of presentations, are: (1) Make better decisions in the face of uncertainty; (2) View infrastructure systemically; (3) Take an iterative, multi-hazard approach; (4) Improve and inform cost-benefit analysis; (5) Mainstream nature-based infrastructure; (6) Jump-start resilience with immediate actions; and (7) Plan now to build back better. The presentations and discussions will address multiple dimensions of these principles, from the perspectives of physical and social science, engineering, policy, finance, and education.
Index Terms:

6304 Benefit-cost analysis [POLICY SCIENCES]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]
6339 System design [POLICY SCIENCES]
6620 Science policy [PUBLIC ISSUES]


Primary Convener:  Peter A Schultz, ICF, District of Columbia, DC, United States
Conveners:  Doug Mason, MCC, Washington, United States and Alice Hill, Independent, Washington, United States
Primary Liaison:  Peter A Schultz, ICF, District of Columbia, DC, United States
 
A robust screening tool for evaluating the performance and resilience of stormwater infrastructure under climate uncertainty (520309)
Tania Paola Lopez-Cantu and Constantine Samaras, Carnegie Mellon University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
 
Resilient and sustainable infrastructure decision-making through consideration of persistent and long-term uncertainties imposed by extreme weather events (547797)
Ozge Kaplan1, Keith Weitz2, Britta Bierwagen3, Susan Thorneloe4, Susan Julius3 and Marissa Liang5, (1)Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States, (2)Research Triangle Institute, Rtp, NC, United States, (3)U.S. EPA, ORD, Washington DC, DC, United States, (4)US EPA, Durham, NC, United States, (5)ORISE, Cincinnati, OH, United States
 
Community-Oriented Resilience Planning for the Built Environment (555433)
Christopher Clavin, National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, Gaithersburg, MD, United States and Therese McAllister, National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, Gaithersburg, United States
 
Dam Nation Revisited: The Prospective of Cumulative Hazard Potential and Preparedness (559195)
Junho Song, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States and Jonghun Kam, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
Mainstreaming Nature-based Adaptation (590950)
Peter A Schultz, ICF, District of Columbia, DC, United States, Brenda Dix, ICF, New York, NY, United States and Tommy Hendrickson, ICF, San Francisco, United States
 
Climate Preparedness and Resilience Decision Making for Extreme Events (624925)
Will Veatch, US Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville, FL, United States and Kathleen D White, US Army Corps of Engineers Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States
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