Time to re-think engineering design standards in a changing climate: The role of risk-based approaches

Journal of Risk Research

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 711-716

  Gibbs, Mark Turner ^a  

^a AECOM   (Australia)

Author keywords

building codes; climate change; climate change design; infrastructure risk; risk based design

Indexed keywords

BUILDING STANDARDS; BUILT ENVIRONMENT; CHANGING CLIMATE; CLIMATE SCIENCE; DATA SETS; DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; DESIGN PARAMETERS; DESIGN STRUCTURE; EMBODIED ENERGY; ENGINEERING DESIGN; ENVIRONMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETER; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; EXCESS CAPACITY; HISTORICAL DATA; RISK-BASED APPROACH; RISK-BASED DESIGN; WAVE HEIGHTS; WIND SPEED;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMERCE; DESIGN; STANDARDS;

BUILDING CODES;

EID: 84864039707     PISSN: 13669877     EISSN: 14664461     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13669877.2012.657220     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. DR AS 5335. 2011. Draft climate change adaptation for settlements and infrastructure. Standards Australia.
2. Gibbs, M.T. 2011a. Integrated assessment modelling for climate change: Why we need it. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management 7: 503-4.
3. Gibbs, M.T. 2011b. Ecological risk assessment, prediction and assessing risk predictions. Risk Analysis 31: 1784-8.
4. Majda, A.J., S.N. Stechmann, and B. Khouider. 2007. Madden-Julian oscillation analog, intraseasonal variability in a multicloud model above the equator. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104, no. 24: 9919-24. (Pubitemid 47175238)
5. Mills, E. 2005. Insurance in a climate of change. Science 309: 1040-4. (Pubitemid 41134455)
6. Muzik, I. 2002. A first-order analysis of the climate change effect on flood frequencies in a subalpine watershed by means of a hydrological rainfall-runoff model. Journal of Hydrology 267, no. 1-2: 65-73.
7. Trenberth, K.E., P.D. Jones, P. Ambenje, R. Bojariu, D. Easterling, A. Klein Tank, D. Parker, et al. 2007. Observations: Surface and atmospheric climate change. In Climate change 2007. The physical science basis. Contribution of working group I to the fourth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change, ed. S. Solomon, D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M.C. Marquis, K.B. Avery, M. Tignor, and H.L. Miller, 235-36. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, plus annex online. (2) M.D.
8. Willems, P., K. Arnbjerg-Nielsen, J. Olsson, and V.T.V. Nguyen. In press. Climate change impact assessment on urban rainfall extremes and urban drainage: Methods and shortcomings. Atmospheric Research.