Critical Infrastructures Resilience: Policy and Engineering Principles

by Stephen Flynn, Udit Bhatia, Auroop Ratan Ganguly

Book Overview

This text offers comprehensive and principled, yet practical, guidelines to critical infrastructures resilience. Extreme events and stresses, including those that may be unprecedented but are no longer surprising, have disproportionate effects on critical infrastructures and hence on communities, cities, and megaregions.

Critical infrastructures include buildings and bridges, dams, levees, and sea walls, as well as power plants and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032241888
• ISBN13: 9781032241883
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"