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Climate Adaptation Engineering

Risks and Economics for Infrastructure Decision-Making

  • 1st Edition - March 16, 2019
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Emilio Bastidas-Arteaga, Mark G. Stewart
  • Language: English

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Description

Climate Adaptation Engineering defines the measures taken to reduce vulnerability and increase the resiliency of built infrastructure. This includes enhancement of design standards, structural strengthening, utilisation of new materials, and changes to inspection and maintenance regimes, etc. The book examines the known effects and relationships of climate change variables on infrastructure and risk-management policies. Rich with case studies, this resource will enable engineers to develop a long-term, self-sustained assessment capacity and more effective risk-management strategies. The book's authors also take a long-term view, dealing with several aspects of climate change. The text has been written in a style accessible to technical and non-technical readers with a focus on practical decision outcomes.

Key features

  • Provides climate scenarios and their likelihoods, hazard modelling (wind, flood, heatwaves, etc.), infrastructure vulnerability, resilience　or exposure (likelihood and extent of damage)
  • Introduces the key concepts needed to assess the risks, costs and　benefits of future proofing infrastructures in a changing climate
  • Includes case studies authored by experts from around the world

Readership

Civil Engineers, Structural Engineers, Environmental Engineers, policy-makers and general interest readers

Table of contents

Part I: Introduction1. Introduction to Climate Adaptation EngineeringMark G. Stewart and Emilio Bastidas-Arteaga

Part II: Case Studies for Infrastructure2. Risk Analysis for Hurricanes Accounting for the Effects of Climate ChangeAlessandro Contento, Hao Xu and Paolo Gardoni3. Climate Change Impact and Adaptation for Urban Drainage SystemsYekenalem Abebe and Solomon Tesfamariam4. Corrosion of Concrete and Steel Structures in a Changing ClimateMark G. Stewart and Emilio Bastidas-Arteaga5. Timber Power Pole Network Management in a Changing ClimateParaic C. Ryan and Mark G. Stewart6. Climate Change Impact for Bridges Subjected to Scour and CorrosionBoulent Imam7. Climate Change Related Risks and Adaptation of Interdependent Infrastructure SystemsDimitri V. Val, Daniil Yurchenko, Maria Nogal and Alan O’Connor

Part III: Case Studies for Buildings8. Adaptation of Residential Buildings to Coastal Floods: Strategies, Costs and EfficiencyAxel Creach, Emilio Bastidas-Arteaga, Sophie Pardo and Denis Mercier9. Climate Adaptation for Housing in Hurricane RegionsS. Bjarnadottir, Y. Li and M.G. Stewart10. Housing Resilience to Wind-Induced Damage in Developing CountriesKazuyoshi Nishijima11. Balancing Energy Efficiency and Heatwave Resilience in Building DesignMorshed Alam, Jay Sanjayan and Patrick X.W. Zou

Part IV: Conclusions and Recommendations12. Recommendations for Infrastructure Decision-Makers Under a Changing ClimateEmilio Bastidas-Arteaga and Mark G. Stewart

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 16, 2019
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Emilio Bastidas-Arteaga

Emilio Bastidas-Arteaga is Associate Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Nantes in France. Since 2009, he has been working on the assessment of consequences and adaptation of infrastructure and buildings subjected to climate change within the framework of national and international collaborations and research projects. He has been and is also participating in several technical committees related to climate change and civil engineering: French Association for Normalisation (AFNOR, France), American Concrete Institute (ACI, USA), Joint Research Centre (JRC, Europe), and the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE, International).
Affiliations and expertise
• The University of Nantes, France • Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering, France

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Mark G. Stewart

Mark G. Stewart is Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of the Centre for Infrastructure Performance and Reliability at The University of Newcastle in Australia. He has 30 years of experience in probabilistic risk and vulnerability assessment of infrastructure and security systems that are subject to man-made and natural hazards.
Affiliations and expertise
The University of Newcastle, Australia

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