CRC Press Disaster Resilience Management of Infrastructure Systems: Computational Modeling and Geospatial Technologies

This book outlines the geospatial technologies and analytical tools needed for safeguarding built infrastructure assets from natural disasters, and preparing for disaster resilience and risk reduction. It takes a whole life approach to infrastructure destruction and the related cost of natural disaster. It reviews weather related natural disasters exacerbated by climate change, deforestation, agricultural loss and public health risk, and commercial loss, and discusses the significance of infrastructure and urban growth on disaster risk. Topics include infrastructure resilience management, critical lifeline infrastructure performance, and recovery and mitigation. Several real world examples are presented. Throughout it applies the tools of computational modeling, remote sensing, risk mapping, and other spatial technologies. About the Author Dr. Waheed Uddin is Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of the Center for Advanced Infrastructure Technology at The University of Mississippi. He has been a pavement expert for the United Nations, and has over 35 years of professional and research experience in highways, airports, air quality, traffic management, infrastructure, and environmental sustainability. A pioneer in airborne laser mapping and satellite imagery applications in transportation infrastructure and disaster impact assessment, Dr. Uddin’s transportation and disaster mapping research products were implemented for the 2005 Hurricane Katrina impact assessment on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, and after the 2010 floods in Pakistan, and 2011 floods in Thailand.