Critical infrastructure

This study examines 2 major events of the summer bushfires during 2019–20 and the severe floods in new south Wales in 2022, and explores the outcomes of investments and efforts into shelter provision after disasters in Australia.

This study aims to develop a risk-based model for assessing fire hazards in highway bridges, intended as a practical decision-support tool for infrastructure managers to identify critical scenarios and prioritise mitigation strategies.

A roving crew installs cameras on California’s highest, craggiest ridgelines to catch wildfires early. Since 2023 artificial intelligence has scanned the network’s footage, and it now spots 51 per cent of the state’s wildfires first.

They’re trying to prevent power lines from sparking catastrophic fires. But there are also worries about how the added expense will fall on ratepayers.

Loose power lines in fire-prone forests have disproportionately set the country ablaze.

This paper examines why extreme weather resilience is becoming a core priority for infrastructure investors and how it should be built into investment decisions.

A severe winter snow drought has left snowpack levels far below normal across the American West in 2026.

US military installations often sit in regions of strategic value that are also highly exposed to environmental hazards—coastal zones, river basins, arid regions, and fire-prone landscapes—thus face an increasingly complex risk environment.