Hurricane Resilience: Investing In Infrastructure To Protect Against Storm Damage
Webhurricane harvey in 2017 brought unprecedented rainfall, basinwide flooding, and windstorms that devastated infrastructure and flooded more than 150,000 homes,. Webthe resilience of infrastructure, communities, and the environment in the face of hurricane events has increasingly become of public interest in the wake of recent. Webunderstanding how power systems fail—and the nature of cascading failures—as a result of hurricanes is important to increase future resilience. Webthis paper studies whether resilience investment mitigates damages from extreme weather events using data on offshore oil production in the gulf of mexico. Webnpr's ailsa chang speaks with civil engineering professor brett sanders about what's needed in terms of infrastructure planning to make communities more.
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