A5060420710- Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
- Landslides and related hazards
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Risk and Safety Analysis
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Occupational Health and Safety Research
- Geographic Information Systems Studies
- Military Strategy and Technology
- Healthcare Systems and Challenges
- Public Relations and Crisis Communication
- Clinical Nutrition and Gastroenterology
- Climate variability and models
- Coastal and Marine Dynamics
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Power System Reliability and Maintenance
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Wind and Air Flow Studies
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2021-2024
Critical infrastructure (CI) is fundamental for the functioning of a society and forms backbone socio-economic development. Natural human-made threats, however, pose major risk to CI. Therefore, geospatial data on location CI are in-depth analyses, which required inform policy decisions aiming reduce risk. We present first-of-its-kind globally harmonized spatial dataset representation In this study, we: (1) collect harmonize detailed world's main systems into single database; (2) develop...
Quote: "What I hear, forget. What see, remember. do, understand." (Xunzi, ∼300 BCE). Modelling complex interactions involving climatic features, socio-economic vulnerability or responses, and long impact transmissions is associated with substantial uncertainty. Physical climate storylines are proposed as an approach to explore transmission pathways possible alternative unfoldings of event cascades under future conditions. These particularly useful for risk assessment domains, including...
This study presents an event-based storyline framework to assess the influence of future climatic and socioeconomic conditions on coastal flood impacts critical infrastructure. The combines well-established quantitative methods sea level rise, inundation, infrastructure (CI) physical damage assessments into integrated modelling approach. We apply our approach re-imagine three historic events: storm Xaver, Xynthia , a surge event along coast Emilia Romagna (Italy). Our results indicate that...
Abstract Power grids play a critical role in modern society, serving as the lifeline of well-functioning economy. This article presents first large-scale study on risk estimation tropical cyclone (TC)-induced winds and coastal floods, which can widely impact power Southeast East Asia. Our comprehensive model incorporates detailed infrastructure data from OpenStreetMap (OSM) government grid maps, along with global hazard maps vulnerability curves. The results reveal that estimated expected...
<p>Globally, critical infrastructure (CI) is exposed to natural hazards that may lead the devastation of these infrastructures and burden society with indirect consequences stem from this. These manifest on varying spatial scales time horizons, such as local (inter)national budgets must be wagered for reconstruction damaged infrastructure, communities large-scale regions are isolated day-to-day services a certain period time. Ultimately, level vulnerability CI key determinant...
Complex interactions involving climatic features, socio-economic vulnerability or responses, and long impact transmissions are associated with substantial uncertainty. Physical climate storylines proposed as approach to explore complex transmission pathways possible alternative unfolding of event cascades under future conditions. These particularly useful for risk assessment domains, including crossing multiple disciplinary geographical borders. For an effective role in risks assessments,...
Abstract. Rainfall-induced hazards, such as landslides, debris flows, and floods cause significant damage to transportation infrastructure. However, an accurate assessment of rainfall-induced hazard risk infrastructure is limited by the lack regional asset-tailored vulnerability curves. This study aims use multi-source empirical data generate curves assess hazards. The methodology exemplified through a case for Chinese national railway In doing so, national-level are derived based on...
Electricity infrastructure is one of the most essential systems for functioning our society. It forms “lifeline” a prosperous modern economy by supporting delivery health, education, and many other services in its day-to-day (Rentschler et al. 2019; Arderne 2020). Weather-related hazards are leading cause major power outages, resulting significant damage (Alemazkoor 2020; Shield 2021).The grid highly intricate system with varying degrees (inter)connectivity redundancy...
<p>Critical infrastructures (CI) play an essential role in the day-to-day functioning of societies and economies. They refer to array physical assets required for operation complex infrastructure network, which include energy grids, waste systems, transportation networks. At same time, impacts natural hazards highlight importance improving our understanding on hazard risk these infrastructures. CI have evolved large interconnected networks, whereby disruption one...
Highlights1. A new rainfall-triggered landslides inventory of Nepal from 2016 to 20202. Landslide susceptibility intersected with critical infrastructure intensity3. Critical Infrastructure hotspots prone identified