Progress and recommendations for advancing performance-based sustainable and resilient infrastructure design

Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management

Volumn 141, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Minsker, Barbara ^a   Baldwin, Lily ^b,c   Crittenden, John ^d,e   Kabbes, Karen ^f   Karamouz, Mohammad ^g   Lansey, Kevin ^h   Malinowski, Patricia ^i,j   Nzewi, Emmanuel ^k   Pandit, Arka ^d,e   Parker, John ^l   Rivera, Samuel ^a   Surbeck, Cristiane ^m   Wallace, William A ^n,o   Williams, John ^f  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Certus Consulting Inc   (United States)

^d Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^e GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f Univ of Tehran ^*  (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^h University of Arizona   (United States)

ⁱ TETHYS Water and Environment PLLC   (United States)

^j University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

^k Texas A M University System   (United States)

^l Center for Social Innovation Annex   (Canada)

^m The University of Mississippi   (United States)

ⁿ Wallace Futures Group LLC   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

COSTS AND BENEFITS; DESIGN TECHNOLOGIES; INFRASTRUCTURE COSTS; INFRASTRUCTURE DESIGN; INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT; MULTI-CRITERIA DESIGNS; PERFORMANCE BASED APPROACH; PERFORMANCE CRITERION;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DESIGN; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PROJECT ASSESSMENT; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84946044576     PISSN: 07339496     EISSN: 19435452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0000521     Document Type: Article

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