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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Resilient infrastructure"”.
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National development banks' investments in climate resilient infrastructure: challenges and prospects
… investments toward low-carbon and climate-resilient sustainable infrastructure in South Africa. It emphasises their critical role in addressing substantial financing gaps essential for meeting the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) commitments under the Paris Agreement. As global …
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Development of a Resilience Assessment Methodology for Networked Infrastructure Systems using Stochastic Simulation, with application to Water Distribution Systems
Water distribution systems are critical infrastructure systems enabling the social and economic welfare of a community. While normal failures are expected and repaired quickly, low-probability and high consequence disruptive events have potential to cause severe damage to the infrastructure and …
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Exploring green bond market systems in Nigeria and South Africa
… capital towards sustainable and climate-resilient infrastructure projects. However, despite global growth in GB adoption, the take up of GBs in African markets remains low. This dissertation explores the green bond market systems (“GBMSs”) of South Africa and Nigeria using the Modified …
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Preserving bad architecture : radicaL preservation in the post-disaster era
… waste; transforms physical memories into resilient infrastructure; utilize the secondary disaster to reshape the landscape: and celebrates the tectonic rubbles together with natural or sub-natural elements, such as debris, dust, mud, as well as annual flooding.
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Applying sustainable urban drainage systems to urban floods management in area 49 planned settlement in Lilongwe City, Malawi
… SUDS are being proposed as one of the climate-resilient infrastructure that the city needs. On the other hand, residents of Area 49 have their own knowledge and ways of managing urban floods which can be incorporated into the spatial planning frameworks. The language of sustainable transitions …
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Estimating the effectiveness of stone columns in mitigating post-liquefaction settlement using Plaxis 2D
… substantial damage to the structure. To build resilient infrastructure, it is paramount to estimate these settlements as well as introduce soil reinforcement techniques to mitigate associated risks. Although there are abundant studies on liquefaction triggering assessment, the study of …
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Kinship Infrastructure Design: Evaluating Diversity and Resilience in Emergency Response Systems Through Agent-Based Modeling
<p>Traditional infrastructure systems are often designed for predictable scenarios, making them vulnerable to disruption when real-world conditions change unexpectedly. This research addresses that limitation by introducing Kinship Infrastructure Design (KID), a bioinspired framework based on the …
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Design and validation of a data-driven infrastructure decision and planning framework for improving climate resiliency of small municipalities and rural communities
… for local governments to be the drivers toward resilient communities concerning climate change. Resilient municipalities must make decisions incorporating climate change to reinvest in an aging infrastructure network. The challenge is that small municipalities need access to information or the …
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Exploring the benefits of a risk based approach to the management and resilience of infrastructure assets.
… (ILS) techniques to the design and management of resilient civil engineering infrastructure. <br/><br/>It is recognised that the fast developing discipline of asset management, with its adoption of ILS tools as one of a variety of techniques likely to be useful in enhancing the resilience of …
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Geospatial Analysis of the Global Supply Chain and Transportation Infrastructure Considering Extreme Weather, Climate, and Sustainable Energy Policies
… supply chain was then conveyed, stressing how resilient infrastructure must be implemented to harden the supply chain to natural disasters and extreme weather events such as tsunamis, hurricanes, and sea level rise. Earth’s rising temperature plays the most significant role in sea level rise. …
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Predicting Flood Risks to City Infrastructure Systems Utilizing Scalable, Time Sensitive Modeling
… flood risks is underestimated, compromising infrastructure resilience. As flood model results are a critical component in flood risk assessments, the accuracy of spatial temporal urban flood results will allow the pluvial flood impact assessment to be simplified and the flood damage to the …
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Effectiveness of flood response mechanisms for enhancing resilient livelihoods in Tsholotsho District of Zimbabwe
… disaster that disrupts livelihoods, damages infrastructure and affects economic stability, particularly in vulnerable communities. Due to geographical and environmental factors, Tsholotsho District in Zimbabwe is highly susceptible to flooding. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness …
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Durability of Cementitious Materials in Arctic Regions: Investigating Freeze-Thaw Damage and Chloride Ingress Diffusion Mechanisms
Concrete infrastructure in the Arctic coastal region faces durability challenges from freeze-thaw (F-T) cycles and chloride ingress due to seawater and deicing salts, resulting in surface scaling, spalling, and cracking. Climate change exacerbates these issues, particularly in high-latitude areas …
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Societal risk and resilience analysis: A multi-scale approach to model the dynamics of infrastructure-social systems
… well-being increasingly depend on critical infrastructure to enable the continuous flow of essential resources and services to communities. Infrastructure loss of functionality in the aftermath of hazards can disrupt regular residential and commercial activities, hinder emergency responses, …
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Evaluation of water resource management systems in eThekwini Municipality
Dissertation submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering in Construction Management and Quantity Surveying, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2024.