Improving infrastructure resilience

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Title

Improving infrastructure resilience

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Description

Most formal engineering approaches to uncertainty use risk-based methods. Because risk formulations have a number of limitations there are situations where a resilience approach is preferable. A problem with resilience is the difficulty of measuring it. The paper discusses the issue and shows how a resilience formulation was used to prioritise actions to improve infrastructure resilience in an extensive region of New Zealand. The region was a complex system-of-systems so a systems approach wa...

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Research paper

Research format

Journal article

Date created

2019

Creator

Elms, David / McCahon I / Dewhirst R

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10092/107524

Related subjects

Infrastructure resilience / system vulnerability / civil engineering decision making / Engineering / Civil engineering / Infrastructure engineering and asset management / Environmental engineering / Environmental engineering not elsewhere classified / Engineering practice and education / Risk engineering / Earth sciences / Physical geography and environmental geoscience / Natural hazards

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