Climate Change Effects on Civil Infrastructure

<p>Climate change challenges are unlike any hazard that infrastructure and related shareholders have faced for millennia. These challenges and the systems that are vulnerable to them as well as the resulting consequences (social economic physical natural health costs etc.) are interrelated in countless ways and span regions countries oceans and continents. The design analysis maintenance operations economics and life cycle of civil infrastructure are dependent upon climatic effects and this book addresses the intersections between climate change infrastructures and related decision paradigms such as risk resilience preparedness adaptation or mitigation from the viewpoint of climate change demands.</p><ul> <li>Presents an objective categorization of climate change demands as related to civil infrastructure and society.</li> <li>Offers a comprehensive roadmap on how to plan for and address climate change effects on civil infrastructure.</li> <li>Includes numerous objective and practical case studies throughout to highlight important subjects.</li> </ul>