The Infrastructure Trolley Problem: Positioning Safe-to-fail Infrastructure for Climate Change Adaptation

Earth's Future

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2019, Pages 704-717

  Kim, Yeowon ^a   Chester, Mikhail V ^b   Eisenberg, Daniel A ^c   Redman, Charles L ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

^c NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change adaptation; disaster risk management; extreme weather; infrastructure; resilience; safe to fail

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION ANALYSIS; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; EXTREME EVENT; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; INFRASTRUCTURE; PRIORITIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STAKEHOLDER; TRADE-OFF;

EID: 85068525659     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23284277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2019EF001208     Document Type: Article

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