Optimizing Community Infrastructure

Optimizing Community Infrastructure: Resilience in the Face of Shocks and Stresses examines the resilience measures being deployed within individual disciplines and sectors and how multi-stakeholder efforts can catalyze action to address global challenges in preparedness and disaster and hazard mitigation. The book provides a theoretical framework to advance thinking on creating resilient, inclusive, sustainable and safe communities. Users will find an accurate and up-to-date guide for working on the development, implementation, monitoring and assessment of policies, programs and projects related to community resilience.

• Provides updated information on resilience, especially on infrastructure, finance, land use, standards and policies
• Includes case studies that illustrate how communities have increased their resilience to natural and other disasters
• Analyzes the institutional, political, social and economic dimensions of resilience at the community level
• Illustrates the interdependencies and interconnectedness of infrastructure systems and how community resilience relies on a holistic approach
• Examines responses to emerging risks associated with climate change

Professionals in the fields of land planning, engineering, architecture, urban planning, energy planning, water management, insurance, disaster prevention (e.g. civil protection), emergency management, corporate social responsibility, policy development, and climate risk communication. Also suitable for use in academic settings focused on resilience or interdisciplinary policy

Part I: Making the Case
1. Resilient Infrastructure: Understanding Interconnectedness and Long-Term Risk
2. Telling the Story: Compelling Citizens to Act 
3. Mitigation is a Smart Investment

Part II: Lifelines
4. Transitioning our Electric Infrastructure
5. Rethinking Our Relationship with Water
6. Recognizing and Addressing Interdependencies: How Lifelines Can Work Collaboratively
7. Understanding and Addressing Risk Within Lifelines

Part III: Finance & Insurance
8. Financing Resilient Infrastructure
9. Addressing Climate Risk in Financial Decision Making

Part IV: Landscapes & Land Use
10. How Smart Land Use Policies Help Avoid Future Headaches
11. Looking to Nature: How Nature-Based Solutions Advance Resilience and Improve Communities
11b. Smart Development Strategies for Resilient Communities

Part V: Buildings 
12. Evolving how Buildings Interact with the Electric Grid
13. Protecting Your Assets: How Building Owners Impact Individual and Community Resilience
14. Sustainable and Resilient Buildings, A Marriage Made in Heaven,

Part VI: Designing for Resilience, Codes and Standards
15. The Role of the Designers and Other Building Practitioners in Advancing Resilience
16. Building Codes: The Foundation for Resilient Communities
17. Designing for Resilient Systems Under Emerging Risks

Part VII: Policies & Practices
18. Incentivization: A Holistic Approach to Effect Action
19. Where Are We? Why Community-wide Benchmarking is Key
20. National Resilience is A Function of Local Actions
21. This is Not Your Father’s Emergency Management

Part VII: Getting the Complete Picture
22. Conclusion