Chapter 2
Infrastructure Resilience Framework
Publication: Infrastructure System Resilience: An Engineering Framework for Assessment, Management, and Governance
Abstract
For the infrastructure resilience framework, infrastructure systems are defined as the physical and organizational structures and facilities needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, including the physical components, data and information, and the human agency interaction (i.e., they are socio-technical systems). The infrastructure resilience framework consist of following elements: infrastructure resilience domain; building and lifeline infrastructure system performance or functionality; system service provision and operability; continuity of services; social and economic activity; community; community performance targets; and infrastructure system performance targets. These eight elements are considered the minimum groupings needed to understand how to assess, manage, and govern infrastructure resilience. They are arranged in an orderly sequence of flow necessary to understand how the elements relate and interact. The framework can be used to identify effective resilience investment strategies, through the economics of resilience outcomes, that community leaders and system owners can carry out over time.
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