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

Introduction to Infrastructure Resilience

Part I: Making the Case
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
Utilities: Introduction
3. Managing Risk to Critical Infrastructures: Interdependencies and Externalities
Jerry P. Brashear
4. Resilience and 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
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 IV: Landscapes and Land Use
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　
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
Policies and 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: A Vision for Resilient Infrastructure
16. Conclusion
Ryan M. Colker