A Framework to Identify the Sustainable and Resilient Zone of Urban Infrastructure System Planning and Design

To meet the global challenge of infrastructure provision for 6 billion urban residents by 2050, it is imperative to incorporate sustainability and resilience as key attributes for infrastructure development/rehabilitation. However, there is no robust approach available to decision makers to explore whether there are tradeoffs between sustainability and resilience or they are complementary. This paper presents an approach to identify the sustainable and resilient zone of urban infrastructure development. The authors demonstrate the efficacy of the approach through a case study on seismic retrofit of a potable water distribution system in California. The approach along with the case study provides us with a few key insights. First, while there is an apparent trade-off between sustainability and resilience, as increasing resilience increases capital investment; they are complementary when conceived from a life-cycle perspective. Second, there indeed exists a sustainable and resilient zone of planning and design, where both sustainability and resilience can be optimized together.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784478745.038
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  • © 2014 American Society of Civil Engineers.
• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

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• Authors:
  • Pandit, Arka
  • DesRoches, Reginald
  • Rix, Glenn J
  • Crittenden, John C
• Conference:
  • International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure 2014
  • Location: Long Beach California, United States
  • Date: 2014-11-6 to 2014-11-8
• Publication Date: 2014-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 434-441
• Monograph Title: ICSI 2014: Creating Infrastructure for a Sustainable World

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Infrastructure; Life cycle analysis; Planning and design; Sustainable development; Urban areas
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01548384
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780784478745
• Files: TRIS, ASCE
• Created Date: Dec 23 2014 12:07PM