Improving Resilience to Natural Disasters: West Coast Lifelines Vulnerability and Interdependency
David Elms, Ian McCahon and Rob Dewhirst have been taking a fresh approach to evaluating infrastructure resilience investment priorities for West Coast communities.
By looking at the West Coast’s infrastructure as a system, they identify vulnerabilities that prevent ‘flow’ through that system and the importance of each critical pipeline of flow to the West Coast economy and community. Investment priorities are ranked according to their contribution to community resilience; thus infrastructure resilience and community resilience both contribute to the final results.
It is a really interesting approach, which takes a systemic view of resilience investment priorities.
The report is available below, along with the 12 supplementary documents.
