Toward indicators of the performance of US infrastructures under climate change risks

Thomas J. Wilbanks; Rae Zimmerman; Susan Julius; Paul Kirshen; Joel B. Smith; Richard Moss; William Solecki; Matthias Ruth; Stephen Conrad; Steven J. Fernandez; Michael S. Matthews; Michael J. Savonis; Lynn Scarlett; Henry G. Schwartz; G. Loren Toole

doi:10.1007/s10584-020-02942-9

Toward indicators of the performance of US infrastructures under climate change risks

Thomas J. Wilbanks, Rae Zimmerman, Susan Julius, Paul Kirshen, Joel B. Smith, Richard Moss, William Solecki, Matthias Ruth, Stephen Conrad, Steven J. Fernandez, Michael S. Matthews, Michael J. Savonis, Lynn Scarlett, Henry G. Schwartz, G. Loren Toole

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Built infrastructures are increasingly disrupted by climate-related extreme events. Being able to monitor what climate change implies for US infrastructures is of considerable importance to all levels of decision-makers. A capacity to develop cross-cutting, widely applicable indicators for more than a dozen different kinds of infrastructure, however, is severely limited at present. The development of such indicators must be considered an ongoing activity that will require expansion and refinement. A number of recent consensus reports suggest four priorities for indicators that portray the impacts of climate change, climate-related extreme events, and other driving forces on infrastructure. These are changes in the reliability of infrastructure services and the implications for costs; changes in the resilience of infrastructures to climate and other stresses; impacts due to the interdependencies of infrastructures; and ongoing adaptation in infrastructures.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1795-1813
Number of pages	19
Journal	Climatic Change
Volume	163
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-020-02942-9
State	Published - Dec 2020

Keywords

Adaptation
Climate change
Indicators
Interdependencies
Reliability
Resilience
US infrastructures

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Global and Planetary Change
Atmospheric Science

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Wilbanks, T. J., Zimmerman, R., Julius, S., Kirshen, P., Smith, J. B., Moss, R., Solecki, W., Ruth, M., Conrad, S., Fernandez, S. J., Matthews, M. S., Savonis, M. J., Scarlett, L., Schwartz, H. G., & Toole, G. L. (2020). Toward indicators of the performance of US infrastructures under climate change risks. Climatic Change, 163(4), 1795-1813. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-020-02942-9

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