scholarly journals Analysing the Cascading Effects on Critical Infrastructure in Torbay Coastal/Pluvial Flooding with Climate Change

10.29007/cwx1 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Gibson ◽  
Albert S Chen ◽  
Mehdi Khoury ◽  
Lydia Vamvakeridou-Lyroudia ◽  
Dave Stewart ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Structural Integrity ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Critical Infrastructures ◽  
Normal Functioning ◽  
Cascading Effects ◽  
Potential Risks ◽  
The Eu

Critical Infrastructures (CIs) are commonly designed, built and maintained based on rigorous standards in order to withstand the climate and weather-related pressures. However, shifts in climate characteristics may result in increases of the magnitude and frequency of potential risks, or expose specific CI to new or increased risks not previously considered. As vital components of the normal functioning of modern societies, their resilience encompasses the operational elements, their structural integrity and the capacity to maximize business output under climate stressors. In this work, we propose an integrated and participatory methodological approach to assess the risk and enhance the resilience of interconnected CIs to urban flooding under climate change. The proposed methodology has been applied to the Torbay case study in the EU-CIRCLE project that is also presented in the paper.

scholarly journals Case study of the cascading effects on critical infrastructure in Torbay coastal/pluvial flooding with climate change and 3D visualisation

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Gibson ◽  
A. S. Chen ◽  
M. Khoury ◽  
L. S. Vamvakeridou-Lyroudia ◽  
D. Stewart ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Structural Integrity ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Coastal Communities ◽  
Normal Functioning ◽  
Cascading Effects ◽  
Future Events ◽  
Potential Risks

Abstract Critical infrastructures (CIs) are commonly designed, built and maintained based on rigorous standards in order to withstand the climate and weather-related pressures. However, shifts in climate characteristics may result in increases of the magnitude and frequency of potential risks, or expose specific CI to new or increased risks not previously considered. As vital components of the normal functioning of modern societies, their resilience encompasses the operational elements, their structural integrity and the capacity to maximise business output under climate stressors. In this work, we apply an integrated and participatory methodological approach to assess the risk and enhance the resilience of interconnected CIs to urban flooding under climate change. The proposed methodology has been applied to an extended case study in Torbay to extend previous works, which seeks to protect coastal communities from future events through using the proposed methodology to justify future investment in coastal defences, as a part of the validation of EU-CIRCLE projects developed methodologies.

scholarly journals Impact Assessment Analysis of Sea Level Rise in Denmark: A Case Study of Falster Island, Guldborgsund

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 7503
Author(s):  
Alexander Boest-Petersen ◽  
Piotr Michalak ◽  
Jamal Jokar Arsanjani
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Alternative Methods ◽  
Projection Data ◽  
Storm Events ◽  
Cascading Effects ◽  
Local Levels

Anthropogenically-induced climate change is expected to be the contributing cause of sea level rise and severe storm events in the immediate future. While Danish authorities have downscaled the future oscillation of sea level rise across Danish coast lines in order to empower the coastal municipalities, there is a need to project the local cascading effects on different sectors. Using geospatial analysis and climate change projection data, we developed a proposed workflow to analyze the impacts of sea level rise in the coastal municipalities of Guldborgsund, located in Southeastern Denmark as a case study. With current estimates of sea level rise and storm surge events, the island of Falster can expect to have up to 19% of its landmass inundated, with approximately 39% of the population experiencing sea level rise directly. Developing an analytical workflow can allow stakeholders to understand the extent of expected sea level rise and consider alternative methods of prevention at the national and local levels. The proposed approach along with the choice of data and open source tools can empower other communities at risk of sea level rise to plan their adaptation.

scholarly journals Improving The Level of Critical Infrastructure Protection by Developing Resilience

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 237-243
Author(s):  
Ionuţ Alin Cîrdei
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Normal Activity ◽  
Critical Infrastructures ◽  
Critical Infrastructure Protection ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Infrastructure Protection ◽  
Economic Agents ◽  
Cascading Effects

Abstract Modern society is characterized by the increasing interdependence between the actors of the international environment, in the conditions of globalization of all the fields of social life. Increasing interdependencies, together with the emergence of new risks and threats, which attempt to exploit systemic vulnerabilities, which are increasingly numerous and difficult to eliminate, bring a new issue to states and other security environment actors: to ensure the protection the infrastructure elements that are indispensable to the normal activity of the population, economic agents, nongovernmental organizations and state institutions. Critical Infrastructure Protection becomes an important point on the agenda of all decision-makers who are in a position to counter the asymmetric threats that jeopardize national interests and democratic values. Due to the multiplication of risks and threats and the multiplication of interdependencies between the various infrastructure elements, the protection of critical infrastructures can not be achieved effectively only by ensuring their physical protection. The cascading effects of a disturbance can be felt at the level of society as a whole, and it is therefore necessary to address the issue of ensuring the protection of critical infrastructures in a comprehensive manner including infrastructure and community resilience issues.

scholarly journals Interlinking Bristol Based Models to Build Resilience to Climate Change

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 3233 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Stevens ◽  
Rob Henderson ◽  
James Webber ◽  
Barry Evans ◽  
Albert Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Energy Supply ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Intense Rainfall ◽  
Hydraulic Modelling ◽  
Cascading Effects ◽  
Combined Stresses ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Expanding populations and increased urbanisation are causing a strain on cities worldwide as they become more frequently and more severely affected by extreme weather conditions. Critical services and infrastructure are feeling increasing pressure to be maintained in a sustainable way under these combined stresses. Methods to better cope with these demanding factors are greatly needed now, and with the predicted impacts of climate change, further adaptation will become essential for the future. All cities comprise a complex of interdependent systems representing critical operations that cannot function properly independently, or be fully understood in isolation of one another. The consequences of localised flooding can become much more widespread due to the inter-relation of these connected systems. Due to reliance upon one another and this connectedness, an all-encompassing assessment is appropriate. Different model representations are available for different services and integrating these enables consideration of these cascading effects. In the case study city of Bristol, 1D and 2D hydraulic modelling predicting the location and severity of flooding has been used in conjunction with modelling of road traffic and energy supply by linking models established for these respective sectors. This enables identification of key vulnerabilities to prioritise resources and enhance city resilience against future sea-level rise and the more intense rainfall conditions anticipated.

National Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-13
Author(s):  
Adriana Alexandru ◽  
Victor Vevera ◽  
Ella Magdalena Ciupercă
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
National Security ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
The United States ◽  
Critical Infrastructures ◽  
Technological Advancement ◽  
Critical Infrastructure Protection ◽  
Normal Functioning ◽  
Infrastructure Protection ◽  
Crisis Scenarios

Abstract The link between national security and the protection of critical infrastructure is vital to the progress of any society and its proper social functioning. The term critical infrastructure was developed by the United States in the 1990s and it has evolved in time; nowadays, most of the current definitions include the security dimension in their content. Along with its many benefits, the technological advancement has brought with it the diversification of threats that could lead to the malfunctioning of critical infrastructures. The new weapons of the 21st century and the new asymmetric threats constitute real dangers to the good functioning of every critical infrastructure. Once they may be interrupted, the normal functioning of the whole society would be endangered because of the domino effects it causes. In this article we will look at how the link between critical infrastructure and national security is reflected in national regulations and crisis scenarios, highlighting the main strengths and the existing legislative gaps along with discussing their applicability.

External Environmental Policy

2021 ◽  
pp. 316-358
Author(s):  
Jan Wouters ◽  
Frank Hoffmeister ◽  
Geert De Baere ◽  
Thomas Ramopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
International Protection ◽  
Environmental Negotiations ◽  
Internal Struggle ◽  
The Eu

This chapter recalls how the EU started to become engaged in the international protection of the environment. It explains in detail the ECJ case law on the choice of legal basis under EU law when an international agreement contains both aspects of commercial policy and environmental protection. It also analyses the internal struggle between the EU institutions on how to conduct international environmental negotiations. The chapter includes a case study about the EU’s role in combating climate change and underlines the important contribution of the EU in the operation of numerous international environmental conventions.

Photovoice, emergency management and climate change: a comparative case-study approach

2020 ◽  
pp. 146879412093439
Author(s):  
Samantha Russo ◽  
Kylie Hissa ◽  
Brenda Murphy ◽  
Bryce Gunson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Climate Change Research ◽  
Study Approach

Photovoice aims to enable people to record and reflect their community’s strengths and challenges, to encourage group dialogue and knowledge about important issues through group discussions and to inform policymaking. While primarily utilized in the health field, an emerging area of focus is to use photovoice in an emergency management or climate change context. Through work conducted in two rural areas recovering from natural disasters in Ontario, Canada, this research, focused on critical infrastructure disaster recovery, underscores the value of undertaking a comparative case-study approach and offers a detailed reporting of the fieldwork methodology. We argue that photovoice has the potential to solicit poorly understood rural and Indigenous community member perspectives, thereby augmenting locally relevant, place-based information and, ideally, empowering voices that are often under-represented in municipal and provincial decision-making processes. We offer lessons learned related to the project’s processes and outcomes, and outline the applicability of photovoice for emergency management and climate change research.

Interdependent critical infrastructures resilience: methodology and case study

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benoît Robert ◽  
Luciano Morabito ◽  
Irène Cloutier ◽  
Yannick Hémond
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Systemic Approach ◽  
Critical Infrastructures ◽  
Coherence Analysis ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Infrastructure Systems ◽  
Infrastructure System ◽  
Good For

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a coherence analysis to evaluate the resilience for a critical infrastructure (CI). This is the new way to evaluate the CI and demonstrate that the authors need to pass from the protection towards resilience. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use two approaches for this research. First is a consequence-based approach to evaluate the resilience. This approach has been used many times for evaluating the interdependencies between CIs. The second is a systemic approach to characterize the system and doing the coherence analysis. Findings – This paper presents a methodology to evaluate the coherence in a context of CIs protection. The coherence analysis in resilience is a new concept and the first result to the application seems very good for the user of the research. Originality/value – The originality of this paper is the coherence analysis applied to a resilience evaluation. The criteria for coherence analysis is innovative and it is a new way to consider the resilience and the relation between an organization and it is partners. Another value is the need for a wider scope in the analysis of hazards and how to address them that includes the infrastructure system itself, but also other related organizations and infrastructure systems.

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