Infrastructure and climate–health risksdoi:10.1038/s41558-023-01858-3Wake, BronwynNature Climate Change
Infrastructure is the backbone of the global economy, connecting people, enhancing quality of life, and promoting health and safety. But climate change is revealing infrastructure vulnerabilities.Lola Woetzel Dickon Pinner Hamid Samandari Hauke Engel Mekala Krishnan Brodie Boland Peter Cooper Byron Ruby...
Climate-related risks are on the rise, and our critical infrastructure is underprepared. Both public and private infrastructure owners should pursue three actions immediately to shore up our assets for better infrastructure resilience.
Infrastructure systems are vulnerable and sensitive to two threats: (a) extreme weather events – heavy rainfall, strong winds, cyclones, droughts, etc. (b) long-term climate variations, which influence average weather conditions. Weather conditions can decrease infrastructure service quality, quantity ...
They also need not look at the comfortable physical climate and tax incentives alone to be attracted to invest in Malaysia. Racial harmony, religious understanding and political stability are also major considerations for both domestic and foreign investors and professionals. This is where the ...
Pollution and climate risk:construction or operation of infrastructure can cause pollution to air, water, land and soil. Climate change risks including physical and transition risk are applicable, particularly where the developments are highly carbon intensive (relating to the raw materials consumed and...
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 consists of $437 billion in investments that will target energy security, climate change, and extending the Affordable Care Act.6 Risks of Infrastructure Spending for Economic Stimulus If infrastructure is built solely for the purpose of providing economic stimulus,...
(Cupers and Meier 2020, Vaughn 2021). Sarah Vaughn’s research onwaterinfrastructure and climate adaptation in Guyana, for example, has shown how contemporary attempts to manage the watery coastline of Guyana rests on infrastructural histories of dam construction that involved colonisation, slavery, ...
States will also determine their strategies to attract and hire skilled workers, create plans for the physical infrastructure to ensure they are resilient to any climate concerns and guarantee connections are affordable. Following the approval of these initial plans, states will have access to 20% of...
Bayesian network model; nighttime land surface temperature; multiple linear regression model; Mt-InSAR; multispectral and radar satellite images; local climate zones; ground motion; urban resilience1. Introduction Disasters in cities around the world have highlighted the vulnerability of the built ...