Toward adaptive infrastructure: flexibility and agility in a non-stationarity age

Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2019, Pages 173-191

  Chester, Mikhail V ^a   Allenby, Braden ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptation; agility; flexibility; Infrastructure; non stationarity; resilience

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY;

ADAPTATION; AGILITY; FLEXIBILITY; INFRASTRUCTURE; NON-STATIONARITIES; RESILIENCE;

INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE (IAAS);

EID: 85082046003     PISSN: 23789689     EISSN: 23789697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/23789689.2017.1416846     Document Type: Article

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