Extreme Events for Infrastructure: Uncertainty and Risk

Stewart, MG; Rosowsky, DV

Extreme Events for Infrastructure: Uncertainty and Risk

Stewart, MG Rosowsky, DV

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Citation:: Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering, 2022, pp. 3-27
Issue Date:: 2022-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Stewart, MG
dc.contributor.author	Rosowsky, DV
dc.date.accessioned	2023-03-21T02:52:08Z
dc.date.available	2023-03-21T02:52:08Z
dc.date.issued	2022-01-01
dc.identifier.citation	Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering, 2022, pp. 3-27
dc.identifier.isbn	9783030850173
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/167919
dc.description.abstract	Buildings, bridges, roads, and other infrastructure essential to our economic and social well-being are at an increasing risk from hurricanes, storms, floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, heat waves, fires, terrorism, climate change and other extreme events. The timing, severity and combination of these extremes are highly uncertain, and are characterised as low probability-high consequence events. The chapter starts by introducing and reviewing basic concepts about risk and cost–benefit analysis of protective measures aim to reduce the vulnerability of infrastructure, and hence reduce the future impacts of extreme events to reveal protective measures that are cost-effective, and those that are not. This literature review justifies the introduction of risk-based decision support that integrates hazard, engineering, and fragility models, as well as economical decision tools to perform a comprehensive assessment of the cost-effectiveness of protective measures. This risk-based decision support will be illustrated with various study cases of engineering for extremes in the following chapters of this book.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Springer Nature
dc.relation.ispartof	Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1007/978-3-030-85018-0_1
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.title	Extreme Events for Infrastructure: Uncertainty and Risk
dc.type	Chapter
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology/School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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dc.date.updated	2023-03-21T02:52:07Z
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Buildings, bridges, roads, and other infrastructure essential to our economic and social well-being are at an increasing risk from hurricanes, storms, floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, heat waves, fires, terrorism, climate change and other extreme events. The timing, severity and combination of these extremes are highly uncertain, and are characterised as low probability-high consequence events. The chapter starts by introducing and reviewing basic concepts about risk and cost–benefit analysis of protective measures aim to reduce the vulnerability of infrastructure, and hence reduce the future impacts of extreme events to reveal protective measures that are cost-effective, and those that are not. This literature review justifies the introduction of risk-based decision support that integrates hazard, engineering, and fragility models, as well as economical decision tools to perform a comprehensive assessment of the cost-effectiveness of protective measures. This risk-based decision support will be illustrated with various study cases of engineering for extremes in the following chapters of this book.

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