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The great civil engineering overhaul / Bill Wallace
Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Reston, VA : American Society of Civil Engineering, [2024]Description: 1 Online-RessourceISBN:- 9780784485446
- 0784485445
- 9780784485453
- 628.5 23/eng/20240729
- TD195.C54
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Summary: "Author William Wallace explains the effects of climate change on civil infrastructure and what alterations are required to enable civil engineers to work under changing climate conditions, which he argues will require a major overhaul of the civil engineering discipline"--PPN: PPN: 1907954619Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-4-NLEBK | BSZ-4-NLEBK-KAUB
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
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