Rare and extreme climate events may result in wide power outages or blackouts. The
concept of power system resilience has been introduced for focusing on high-impact and …

Risk assessment and mitigation programs have been carried out over the last decades in
the attempt to reduce transportation infrastructure downtime and post-disaster recovery …

Resilience curves are used to communicate quantitative and qualitative aspects of system
behavior and resilience to stakeholders of critical infrastructure. Generally, these curves …

A real-time understanding of the distribution and duration of power outages after a major
disaster is a precursor to minimizing their harmful consequences. Here, we develop an …

Transportation infrastructure plays an important role in supporting the national economy and
social well-being. Extreme events have caused terrible physical damages to the …

The past several decades have witnessed an increasing number of natural and manmade
hazards with a dramatic impact on the normal operations of the society. The occurrences of …

Electric power systems are critical to economic prosperity, national security, public health
and safety. However, in hurricane-prone areas, a severe storm may simultaneously cause …

Many systems on our planet shift abruptly and irreversibly from the desired state to an
undesired state when forced across a “tip** point”. Some examples are mass extinctions …

Climate change will have unavoidable impacts on urban systems and populations,
especially in Asia where many large cities are exposed. Climate adaptation will be essential …

In the wake of severe climatic events and terrorist acts and the emergence of dangerous
technologies, communities, nations, and global organizations have diligently sought to …