Analysing the Cascading Effects on Critical Infrastructure in Torbay Coastal/Pluvial Flooding with Climate Change

8 pages•Published: September 20, 2018

Michael Gibson, Albert S Chen, Mehdi Khoury, Lydia Vamvakeridou-Lyroudia, Dave Stewart, Michael Wood, Dragan Savic and Slobodan Djordjević

Abstract

Critical Infrastructures (CIs) are commonly designed, built and maintained based on rigorous standards in order to withstand the climate and weather-related pressures. However, shifts in climate characteristics may result in increases of the magnitude and frequency of potential risks, or expose specific CI to new or increased risks not previously considered. As vital components of the normal functioning of modern societies, their resilience encompasses the operational elements, their structural integrity and the capacity to maximize business output under climate stressors. In this work, we propose an integrated and participatory methodological approach to assess the risk and enhance the resilience of interconnected CIs to urban flooding under climate change. The proposed methodology has been applied to the Torbay case study in the EU-CIRCLE project that is also presented in the paper.

Keyphrases: cascading effects, critical infrastructure, flood modelling, impact assessment

In: Goffredo La Loggia, Gabriele Freni, Valeria Puleo and Mauro De Marchis (editors). HIC 2018. 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, vol 3, pages 780-787.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/1Dl4
	https://doi.org/10.29007/cwx1

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{HIC2018:Analysing_Cascading_Effects_Critical,
  author    = {Michael Gibson and Albert S Chen and Mehdi Khoury and Lydia Vamvakeridou-Lyroudia and Dave Stewart and Michael Wood and Dragan Savic and Slobodan Djordjević},
  title     = {Analysing the Cascading Effects on Critical Infrastructure in Torbay Coastal/Pluvial Flooding with Climate Change},
  booktitle = {HIC 2018. 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics},
  editor    = {Goffredo La Loggia and Gabriele Freni and Valeria Puleo and Mauro De Marchis},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Engineering},
  volume    = {3},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2516-2330},
  url       = {/publications/paper/1Dl4},
  doi       = {10.29007/cwx1},
  pages     = {780-787},
  year      = {2018}}

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