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EQUITABLE AND RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS
EQUITABLE AND RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS
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Any approach that aims to enhance community resilience and adaptability in an equitable manner must include rebalancing public infrastructure investments, addressing fundamental social inequalities starting with the planning phase and recognizing the inequities that have resulted from years of practice (Matin et al., 2018)
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. RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE: Infrastructure that is designed, maintained, and/or adapted to support resilience goals, including recovery of functionality within a specified time frame, for a specified scale (e.g., site, network system, community, region)
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National Climate Assessment, "The United States is observing the impacts of climate change in every region and across economic sectors. Farmers and ranchers across the Great Plains battle drought, transportation planners consider how floods might affect roads and bridges, and utility managers try to keep the electricity flowing during heat waves." Further, the latest National Climate Assessment indicates "more frequent and intense extreme weather and climate-related events, as well as changes in average climate conditions, are expected to continue to damage infrastructure, ecosystems, and social systems that provide essential benefits to communities" (USGCRP, 2018)
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Each workshop will focus on distinct hazard mitigation and resilience issues and research questions, such as compound and cascading hazard incidents; risk communication and decision making in a changing risk landscape; nature-based solutions, buyouts, and managed retreat options for coastal risks; and equity and social vulnerability considerations in risk and decision metrics. Following each workshop, the committee will prepare a brief consensus study report that identifies and summarizes key research topics for the applied research community in the specific areas discussed at the workshop.
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The aim of the committee's activities is to inform applied research programs that will strengthen capacities for hazard mitigation and resilience across the nation and around the world. BOX 3 The Program on Risk, Resilience, and Extreme Events Since its creation following the release of the 2012 report Disaster Resilience: The National Imperative,a the Program on Risk, Resilience, and Extreme Events at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, known more generally as Resilient America, has sought to harness the power of science, information, and community experience and knowledge to create a more adaptive and resilient nation.b To achieve this aim, Resilient America engages with the academic, public, and private sectors at the national and local levels to: - Increase understanding of complex risks and extreme events in a changing environment, and the exposure of communities, infrastructure, and natural systems to these threats.
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Workshop panelists included individuals from the public and private sectors; organizations involved in various resilience and social justice activities across the United States; community-based organizations; and the research, community engagement, infrastructure, transportation, housing, and policy communities. The committee asked workshop panelists to consider and address the questions listed in Appendix D to help determine unmet applied research needs within the workshop theme.
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