Critical infrastructure

Critical infrastructure

Communications systems and networks, health facilities, emergency evacuation shelters, elements of transportation systems, waste disposal, water supplies.

Woman carrying a basket walking through the sandy desert with her livestock.
Airborne dust not only causes disease, it also menaces transportation on land, sea, and air; disrupts renewable energy systems; transports pathogens and toxic substances; and poses many other hazards.
Eos - AGU
Cover ORF
2023
The G20 can play an important role in addressing this challenge and help catalyse finance for climate action in developing countries. This policy brief recommends a multipronged approach for developing countries to finance their adaptation.
Observer Research Foundation
This is to ensure these infrastructures are well prepared against future disasters particularly earthquakes and floods
Malaysian Reserve, the
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2023
This study develops a new integrated agent-based framework for designing building emergency evacuation by using Building Information Model (BIM).
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
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2023
This brief highlights that accurate and timely data is necessary in order to build disaster-resilient infrastructure, cities, and societies.
Observer Research Foundation
An Amtrak train
Extreme weather is disrupting Amtrak's trains - and its climate benefits.
Grist Magazine
Cover Environment Science & Technology
2023
This study combines simulated heat exposure data during historical heat wave events in three large U.S. cities to assess the degree to which heat-related mortality and morbidity change in response to a concurrent electrical grid failure event.
Environmental Science & Technology (ACS)
New research warns that nearly 800,000 residents would need emergency medical care for heat stroke and other illnesses in an extended power failure. Other cities are also at risk.
New York Times, the