Optimizing Community Infrastructure

Introduction to Infrastructure Resilience

Part I: Making the Case

Introduction
1. Resilient Infrastructure: Understanding Interconnectedness and Long-Term Risk
Alice C. Hill and William Kakenmaster
2. Sustainable and Resilient Buildings: Essential Together
Jason Hartke

Resilience Solutions

Part II: Utilities
Introduction
3. Managing Risk to Critical Infrastructures, Their Interdependencies, and the Region They Serve: A Risk Management Process
Jerry P. Brashear
4. Resilience of Electric Power Infrastructure
Jeff Dagle
5. Becoming a Resilient Water System: A Transformative Process
Michael Hooker, Geoffrey G. Miller and Timothy Taber

Part III: Finance
Introduction
6. Financing Resilient Infrastructure
Joyce Coffee
7. Addressing Climate Risk in Financial Decision Making
Natalie Ambrosio, Yoon Hui Kim, Stacy Swann and Ziyue Wang

Part VI: Landscapes and Land Use
Introduction
8. Harnessing Green Infrastructure for Resilient, Natural Solutions
Charriss R.H. York and John Jacob
9. How Smart Land Use Policies Help Avoid Future Headaches
Samantha Medlock and James Schwab

Part V: Buildings　
Introduction
10. The New Resilient Built Environment: Perspectives from Investors and Owners of Private Buildings
Devesh Nirmul and John Scott
11. The Role of the Designers and Other Building Practitioners in Advancing Resilience
Allison Hoadley Anderson
12. Building Codes: The Foundation for Resilient Communities
Cindy Davis and James Tim Ryan

Part VI: Policies & Practices
Introduction
13. Designing for Resilient Systems Under Emerging Risks
Allison C. Reilly and Bilal Ayyub
14. Where Are We? Why Community-Wide Benchmarking is Important
M. John Plodinec
15. How Philanthropy is Transforming Resilience Theory into Practical Applications at the Local Level
Robert G. Ottenhoff

Part VII: Conclusion
16.  A Vision for Resilient Infrastructure
Ryan M. Colker