Abstract
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) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1795-1813 |
Number of pages | 19 |
Journal | Climatic Change |
Volume | 163 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 2020 |
Keywords
- Adaptation
- Climate change
- Indicators
- Interdependencies
- Reliability
- Resilience
- US infrastructures
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Global and Planetary Change
- Atmospheric Science