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This chapter provides a brief overview of some of the more established approaches to resilience and risk assessment as practiced in other fields of engineering that may be pertinent to water management infrastructures. It also traces ASCE’s historical role in addressing risks to large infrastructure for water management. Finally, the chapter makes some recommendations as a way forward for improving resilience assessment involving greater use of numerical models.
With permission from ASCE, this chapter is adapted from: A Review of Approaches And Recommendations For Improving Resilience Of Water Management Infrastructure: The Case of Large Dams, Journal of Infrastructure Systems (ASCE), ASCE Task Committee’s Final Update on Water Management Infrastructure Resilience, vol 23, Issue 4, December 2017.
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Hossain, F. et al. (2020). Current Approaches for Resilience Assessment. In: Hossain, F. (eds) Resilience of Large Water Management Infrastructure. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26432-1_3
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