The Resilience Performance Assessment (RPA), an Innovative Solution to Measure the Benefits of Adaptation Investments for Infrastructure, Buildings, and Territories
Publication: ASCE Inspire 2023
ABSTRACT
Prioritizing the adaptation of infrastructure and territories is an emergency, especially given that the cost of inaction now significantly exceeds the cost of prevention. However, if indicators can be found in the literature to evaluate physical and socio-economic vulnerability of critical infrastructure, there is no existing tool intended for decision-makers to measure the “performance” of measures, policies, or investments aiming to improve the resilience of infrastructure in their territorial context. For this purpose, Resallience has developed the Resilience Performance Assessment (RPA). It is an innovation composed of (1) a GIS-based platform allowing a comprehensive visualization of climate change impacts; and (2) an analytical dashboard to support stakeholders in prioritizing adaptation strategies and investments. This paper explains how the RPA has been applied for two entire Caribbean islands to provide a comprehensive visualization of current and future climate change impacts and a ranking of the most performant investment projects to reach national and international resilience targets.
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Published online: Nov 14, 2023
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- Benefit cost ratios
- Buildings
- Business management
- Climate change
- Climates
- Computer vision and image processing
- Engineering fundamentals
- Environmental engineering
- Financial management
- Infrastructure
- Infrastructure resilience
- Innovation
- Investments
- Management methods
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