Vulnerability and resilience of power systems infrastructure to natural hazards and climate change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12929014 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amy Schweikert (0000-0002-0518-4318, Colorado School of Mines, corresponding author), Mark Deinert (0000-0002-3951-5568, Colorado School of Mines) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1757-7780 • E-ISSN: 1757-7799 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/wcc.724 |
| OpenAlex | W3177124531 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 44 |
The value of critical infrastructure rests in the services they provide. Electricity in particular underpins the operation of hospitals, schools, financial systems, transportation assets, telecommunications, and water treatment, and affects many other aspects of daily life. There is an emerging recognition of power systems as complex adaptive systems and a proliferation of work on how to make them more resilient in the face of natural hazards and climate change. However, the term “resilience” is often used to encompass important, but distinct, aspects of infrastructure analysis including vulnerability, asset hardening, resistance to failure and risk management. As work in this domain has evolved through disciplines from risk management, economics, engineering and policy, the term “resilience” has often remained vague or referred to broad aspects of infrastructure performance under hazard events. Here we argue it is important to distinguish asset hardening and risk management from aspects of a system that allow it to deliver services even when some of its components fail. Understanding infrastructure vulnerability and risk are key components of resilient power system assessments. However, differentiating vulnerability from functional resilience (service delivery even when components fail) can help identify gaps in data, modeling and decision making. We propose that continued progress in this area can be made by unifying these areas of work through (1) understanding vulnerability and risk management in the context of hazards and climate change and (2) an orientation of resilient service delivery as a unifying concept for resilience analysis. This article is categorized under: Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change > Learning from Cases and Analogies
Asset (computer security · Business · Computer security · Context (archaeology · Critical infrastructure · Economics · Environmental resource management · Geography · Natural hazard · Psychological resilience · Resilience (materials science · Risk analysis (engineering · Risk management · Vulnerability (computing · Vulnerability assessment · Computer Science · Disaster Management and Resilience · Flood Risk Assessment and Management · Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis · Finance
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
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| Citations per year | 3,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |