Sustainability and Resiliency under Multi-Hazards
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Hazards and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2019) | Viewed by 4666
Special Issue Editors
2. College of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Interests: advanced analysis of infrastructures; earthquake engineering; scientific machine learning; coupled systems mechanics; uncertainty quantification and resilience
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Interests: recovery models for community interdependent infrastructural networks; natural disasters risk assessment and resilience-based recovery planning
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The increasing world population (especially in developing countries), along with more frequent atmospheric natural disasters due to global warming, exposes more communities around the world to natural hazards. To mitigate the devastating consequences of such natural disasters for communities, scientists and decision-makers have been focusing on not only designing, constructing, and retrofitting individual buildings and infrastructures to be stronger, but also planning on their faster recovery considering their interdependencies and regional-level functionality. Such a comprehensive community-level fast recovery is what we call, among many other things, “resiliency”. While achieving a fully resilient community is a goal of decision-makers to overcome natural disasters, such an achievement should fulfill the requirements of sustainability in which any planning should include a minimum environmental footprint. The novelty of this concept of sustainable and resilient design and planning under multi-hazards arises when any design or planning provision sustains requirements from both areas at the same time. This could be a challenge when one sector demands a resolution that can negatively affect the other sector, or vice versa.
In this Special Issue, we solicit high-quality original research articles focused on the state-of-the-art techniques and methods employing sustainability, resilience, and risk analysis of structures and infra-structures under multi-hazards. We welcome both theoretical and application papers of high technical standard across various disciplines, thus facilitating an awareness of techniques and methods in one area that may be applicable to other areas. We seek high-quality submissions of original research articles as well as review articles on all aspects related to sustainability that have the potential for practical application.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Sustainable and resilient building design systems;
- Community resilience and sustainable planning;
- Sustainable and resilient design of infrastructural components;
- Sustainable and resilient design of infrastructural networks;
- Case studies and validations of sustainable and resilient systems;
- Cloud-based sustainable and resilient design or assessment platforms;
- Influence of social and economic sectors in sustainable and resilient systems;
- Risk and resiliency of bridges, dams, nuclear power plants, and transportation networks.
Dr. M. Amin Hariri-Ardebili
Dr. Karim Farokhnia
Dr. Derya Deniz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainability
- resiliency
- infrastructural network recovery
- natural hazards
- risk assessment
- community resilience planning
- sustainable design
- fragility
- reliability
- critical infrastructures
- seismic
- flood
- tornado
- hurricane
- fire
- degradation
- climate change
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