Adaptive Climate Risk Control of Sustainability and Resilience for Infrastructure Systems

摘要

BackgroundMany challenges are facing our global society that include, forexample, natural, technological and human caused threats potentiallyaffecting property and life costing annually hundreds of billions ofdollars. Other examples are:? Income disparity that may lead to societal or internationalconflicts and disorders;? Population growths with time‐variant differences inconsumption cultures that may potentially be convergingtowards the high ends of consumption behavior for significantpopulation segments, thereby stressing or threatening ourlimited resources;? A changing climate and growing populations with significantincreases in urbanization;? New and emerging technological threats, etc.Resilience and sustainability as system characteristics are necessaryfor societal endurance and survival. Enhancing them at the element,network, community, etc. levels could lead to not only massive savingsthrough efficiencies but also through risk reduction and expeditiousrecovery in case of disasters. The rational management of suchreduction and recovery is facilitated by practical and fundamentalresilience and sustainability metrics. This paper contrasts resilience andsustainability and discusses a research need to concurrently addressand manage them using a dynamic risk control framework.