Hazard-Resilient Infrastructure
Infrastructure Resilience Division of ASCE, Dave Butry, Craig A. Davis, Sanjeev R. Malushte, Ricardo A. Medina, Mahmoud Reda Taha, John W. van de Lindt, Cory R. Brett, Sherif M. Daghash, Caroline Field, Juan F. Fung, Paolo Gardoni, Sue McNeil, Fernando Moreu, Ali Mostatavi, Yalda Saadat, Neetesh Sharma, Kenichi Soga, Eslam Soliman, Elaina J. Sutley, Armin Tabandeh, Douglas S. Thomas, Eric D. Vugrin, Richard N. Wright
Abstract
A large portion of the world's population, infrastructure, and wealth is concentrated in locations prone to natural disasters such as earthquakes, droughts, floods, and storms, so infrastructure resilience and sustainability as system characteristics are necessary for societal endurance and survival. Enhancing infrastructure at the element, system, network, and community levels will lead not only to massive savings and conservation of resources through efficiencies but also through risk reduction to life, property, and environment, and expeditious recovery in case of natural disasters.