Yiyi He — Understanding the Impact of Floods on Critical Infrastructure Networks

Critical infrastructure networks provide socio-economic services across local and regional scales. However, population and economic growth, urbanization, increasing infrastructure interdependency, and natural hazards – not least due to the worsening effects of climate change – are putting these infrastructure systems under increasing pressure. Given future climatic variations, a comprehensive understanding of the potential impact of climate-change-induced natural hazards on the intra- and interconnected critical infrastructure networks and network resilience options is still absent. Through three types of infrastructure networks as case studies, this talk discusses approaches to better understand climate change impacts on critical infrastructure networks.