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Application of multi-criteria decision analysis in environmental and civil engineering / / edited by Dilber Uzun Ozsahin, 3 others
| Application of multi-criteria decision analysis in environmental and civil engineering / / edited by Dilber Uzun Ozsahin, 3 others |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (206 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 624 |
| Collana | Professional Practice in Earth Sciences |
| Soggetto topico |
Multiple criteria decision making
Civil engineering - Decision making Environmental engineering - Decision making |
| ISBN | 3-030-64765-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910483662603321 |
| Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The great civil engineering overhaul / / Bill Wallace
| The great civil engineering overhaul / / Bill Wallace |
| Autore | Wallace Bill <1942-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Reston : , : ASCE Press, published by the American Society of Civil Engineers, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xviii, 394 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 628.5 |
| Soggetto topico |
Civil engineering - Environmental aspects
Civil engineering - Decision making Climatic changes |
| ISBN |
9780784485446
9780784416228 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- The Great Civil Engineering Overhaul -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: What's Past Is No Longer Prologue -- Global Warming and Its Consequences -- Climate-Related Assumptions Are No Longer Reliable -- Hurricane Sandy (October 2012). Cost: 65 billion, 159 deaths -- Camp Fire, Northern California (November 2018). Cost: 16.5 billion, 85 deaths -- Midwestern US Floods (January-March 2019). Cost: 10.8 billion, 3 deaths -- Similar Problems, Other Places -- The European Heat Wave of 2003 -- When Cape Town Almost Hit Day Zero -- The Past Is No Longer Prologue -- A Matter of Ethical and Moral Responsibility & -- hellip -- and Liability -- New Levels of Uncertainty -- Reduce Carbon Emissions to Net Zero By 2050 -- The Hazards and Risks of Business as Usual -- Changes in Scale -- Is Achieving Net-Zero Carbon by 2050 Possible? -- Is There Hope? -- What Needs to Be Done -- Enhance Infrastructure Resilience -- Decrease Exposure to Climate Stressor Hazards -- Reduce the Source of Climate Stressor Extremes: GHG Emissions -- How the Civil Engineering Industry Should Respond -- The Purpose and Design of This Book -- References -- Additional References (Not Cited) -- Chapter 2: Civil Infrastructure and the Assumption of Stationarity -- What is Civil Infrastructure? -- Why Is Civil Infrastructure Important? -- Civil Infrastructure and National Competitiveness -- The Work of Civil Engineers -- Infrastructure Projects: Components, Requirements, Relationships, and Dependencies -- Application of Codes and Standards -- Climate Variables, Climate Stressors, and Climate-Derived Variables -- Taking Climate Stressors into Account in Infrastructure Design -- Climate Stressors in Infrastructure Design -- Climate Stressor Variable Range of Values -- Forms of Infrastructure Degradation -- Knock-on Effects -- Compounding -- Propagating.
Reinforcing -- How Knock-On Effects Have Been Handled -- Types of Failure -- Catastrophic Failure -- Resilient Failure -- Infrastructure Resiliency -- Designing Infrastructure Assuming Conditions of Stationarity -- Using Climate-Derived Variables -- Stationarity Worked & -- hellip -- At Least Until Now -- References -- Chapter 3: Climate Change, Stationarity, and Sustainability: How Are They Connected? -- The Foundational Assumption of Stationarity -- Is Our Form of Economic Development Sustainable? -- The Brundtland Commission Report -- Are We Sustainable? -- What Are the "Needs" of Present and Future Generations? -- How Does Society Meet Those Needs? -- Sustainability: A Simple Example -- Financial and Natural Capital: What's the Connection? -- Natural Capital Resources and Flows -- Abiotic Resources and Flows -- Structure, Condition, and Circulation -- Biotic Systems: Resources and Ecosystem Service Flows -- Resources and Ecosystem Service Flows: Example -- Question: How Did We Get to this Point in Human Development? -- Answer: Human Ingenuity! We Created New Forms of Capital -- Putting It All Together -- Is Society's Approach to Development Sustainable? -- Human Well-Being: What Has Been Achieved? -- What Is the State of the Earth's Resources and Ecosystems? -- Ecological Footprint: Ecosystem Demand versus Availability -- The Sustainability Quadrant: Where Nations Need to Be -- Moving Toward the Sustainability Quadrant -- Developed Nations: High and Very High Income -- Developing Nations: Lower and Upper Middle Income -- Underdeveloped Nations: Low Income -- Global Efforts to Reduce Poverty -- References -- Additional References (Not Cited) -- Chapter 4: The Consequences of Unsustainable Development -- Human Development Progress and Its Consequences -- What About Natural Capital? -- The IPAT Equation -- Climbing the Heat Ladder. Fossil Fuel Use and Its Consequences -- A "New Normal" of Disasters -- The Impacts of Business-As-Usual -- A New Sense of Urgency -- Opportunities in a Low-Carbon Economy -- Impacts on Civil Infrastructure Design -- Changes in Probability Distributions of Climate Stressor Variables -- Additional Hazards and Risks Outside of Historical Operating Experience -- Effects on Infrastructure Assets -- Infrastructure Design Challenges in a Changing Climate -- References -- Chapter 5: Responding to a Changing Climate -- The Work Ahead -- The Scale of the Response Required -- Barriers to an Effective Response -- Responding to a Changing Climate: The Details -- Climate Change Mitigation -- Climate Change Adaptation -- Conclusion -- References -- Additional References (Not Cited) -- Chapter 6: Civil Infrastructure and Deep Uncertainty -- A Framework for Infrastructure Planning and Design Decision Making -- Levels of Uncertainty -- Engineers Have Always Managed Deep Uncertainties -- Global Climate Change and Deep Uncertainty -- Approaches to Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty -- Robust Decision Making -- Dynamic Adaptive Planning -- Dynamic Adaptive Policy Pathways -- Information-Gap Decision Theory (IG or Info-Gap) -- Engineering Options Analysis -- Conclusion -- References -- Additional References (Not Cited) -- Chapter 7: A Proposed Dynamic Adaptive Planning Methodology -- Introduction -- Modified Dynamic Adaptive Planning: A Summary -- Modified Dynamic Adaptive Planning: The Details -- Step I: Set the Stage -- Step II: Assemble the Initial Plan -- Step III: Improve the Robustness of the Project Alternatives -- Step IV: Evaluate and Select the Best Alternative -- Step V: Develop the Monitoring System -- Step VI: Prepare the Responses -- Step VII: Deliver the Project -- Step VIII: Operate the Project -- Conclusion -- References. Additional References (Not Cited) -- Chapter 8: A Proposed Dynamic Adaptive Policy Pathways Methodology -- Introduction -- Dynamic Adaptive Policy Pathways Terminology, Types, and Characteristics -- Modified Dynamic Adaptive Policy Pathways: A Summary -- Setting the Scope, Objectives, and Limitations -- Types of Pathways -- Pathway Elements -- Pathway Objectives: Getting on Track and Staying on Track -- Pathway Characteristics -- Determining and Evaluating Routes for Achieving Objectives -- Evaluation and Selection of Promising Routes -- Modified Dynamic Adaptive Policy Pathways: The Details -- Step 1. Describe the Problem -- Step 2. Analyze the Problem -- Step 3. Determine Possible Adaptation Pathways -- Step 4a. Evaluate Pathways -- Step 4b. Reassess -- Step 5. Assemble Pathways into Routes -- Step 6. Select the Most Promising Routes -- Step 7. Improve Plan Robustness, Resilience -- Step 8. Select a Dynamic Adaptive Plan -- Step 9. Implement the Plan -- Step 10. Monitor and Respond -- Conclusion -- References -- Additional References (Not Cited) -- Chapter 9: Preparing for an Uncertain Future -- Climate Disasters Continue -- The Tragedy of the Horizon -- Shifting from Intent to Action -- COP 21 and the Paris Agreement -- Progress through Global Climate Action -- Tracking and Validating Credible Climate Action Progress -- Climate Action Pathways -- Rallying Support: Climate Ambition Alliance-Race to Zero -- What the United States Is Doing -- ASCE 73-23: Standard Practice for Sustainable Infrastructure -- How Civil Engineers Can Make a Difference -- Can Engineers Respond Effectively? -- An Extended Role for Engineers? -- Closing Comments -- References -- Additional References (Not Cited) -- APPENDIX A: Climate Stressor Effects by Infrastructure Category -- APPENDIX B Envision Sustainable Infrastructure Rating System -- Quality of Life -- Leadership. Resource Allocation -- Natural World -- Climate and Resilience -- APPENDIX C Robustness Matrix -- Index -- About-the-author. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911016152003321 |
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| Reston : , : ASCE Press, published by the American Society of Civil Engineers, , 2024 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Quantitative risk assessment (QRA) for natural hazards [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Nasim Uddin, Alfredo H.S. Ang
| Quantitative risk assessment (QRA) for natural hazards [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Nasim Uddin, Alfredo H.S. Ang |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Reston, : ASCE, c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (94 p.) |
| Disciplina | 624.1/7 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
AngAlfredo Hua-Sing <1930->
UddinNasim |
| Collana | Monograph / ASCE Council on Disaster Risk Management |
| Soggetto topico |
Civil engineering - Decision making
Natural disasters - Risk assessment Quantitative research Structural analysis (Engineering) - Approximation methods System safety - Mathematics |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-7844-7637-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1: An Application of Quantitative Risk Assessment in Infrastructures Engineering""; ""Chapter 2: Quantitative Risk Analysis Applied to Dams""; ""Chapter 3: Risk Assessment for Wind Hazards""; ""Chapter 4: Quantitative Earthquake Risk Assessment""; ""Chapter 5: Risk Assessment for Bridge Decision-Making""; ""Chapter 6: An All-Hazards Methodology for Critical Asset and Portfolio Risk Analysis""; ""Chapter 7: A Methodology for the Risk Analysis and Management of Protected Hurricane-Prone Regions""; ""Index"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462552803321 |
| Reston, : ASCE, c2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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