Publication alert: Infrastructure Recovery

Publication alert! "Infrastructure Recovery" was just published by Springer Nature as part of the "Encyclopedia of Disaster Risk Reduction", edited by Rajib Shaw. Thank you to section editor Ifte Ahmed for the invitation to contribute!

So, what is the book chapter about? "Infrastructure and institutions comprise a nexus of interrelations that shape the structure of societies and the built environment they inhabit. This nexus becomes all the more critical in the case of environmental disaster. Yet infrastructure and institutions, each by themselves, can mean different things. In the context of postdisaster recovery and reconstruction, infrastructure can also refer to critical infrastructure or urban infrastructure. Engineering systems for risk reduction can also be considered a form of protection infrastructure. Related measures for adaptation to climate change and environmental risk illustrate how institutions act in order to make infrastructure resilient. Research on resilient urban systems points out that institutions can interact with social infrastructure or themselves be considered as such, indicating flowing transitions between the terms." 

The chapter is available at the Springer Nature website.