Rae Zimmerman

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the comprehensive process, approach, and tools for adaptation developed by the New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC) in conjunction with the region's stakeholders who manage its critical infrastructure, much of which lies near the coast.

TL;DR: The results show that the cost effectiveness of security investment has a large impact on the optimal budget allocation, and different measures of target attractiveness yield different optimal budget allocations, emphasizing the importance of developing more realistic terrorist objective functions for use in budget allocation decisions for homeland security.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed all of the inactive hazardous waste disposal sites on the National Priorities List (NPL) regulated under the Comprehensive Response Compensation and Liability Act and its 1986 Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (CERCLA/SARA) and emphasized two dimensions of equity, namely, site location relative to the location of minority populations and the distribution of cleanup plans or records of decision across communities with NPL sites that have different socioeconomic characteristics.

TL;DR: In this paper, the social implications of infrastructure network interactions are discussed and discussed in the context of urban infrastructure networks, and the authors propose a framework to understand the social impact of infrastructure networks.

TL;DR: Treating infrastructure as SETS shows promise for increasing the adaptive capacity of infrastructure systems by highlighting how lock‐in and vulnerabilities evolve and how multidisciplinary strategies can be deployed to address these challenges by broadening the options for adaptation.