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Risk-Informed Decision-Making for Predisaster Risk Mitigation Planning of Interdependent Infrastructure Systems: Case Study of Jamaica
Hazards cause huge social disruptions and economic losses each year. Community disaster resilience relies on the capacity of critical infrastructure systems to maintain acceptable levels of functionality during a disruptive event and to recover promptly after the event. A proper predisaster risk mitigation planning framework can aid communities by working in advance to understand the preexisting local needs, identify the leaders, form partnerships, establish resources, and seize opportunities to increase community disaster resilience. Although numerous theoretical studies exist on developing models to support infrastructure predisaster risk mitigation, these models have not been properly incorporated into the decision-making process in existing studies. This lack of incorporation impedes the transfer of theoretical knowledge to practical policymaking. High-level predisaster infrastructure risk mitigation decisions for multiple infrastructure systems are especially in need of such an illustration due to the complexity introduced by the scale. This paper defines the interdependent infrastructure risk mitigation (IIRM) problem in a risk-informed decision-making framework and illustrates the entire decision-making process using a case study on predisaster risk mitigation planning of the interdependent critical infrastructure systems in Jamaica. This region is vulnerable to natural hazards but has received little attention in the literature.
Risk-Informed Decision-Making for Predisaster Risk Mitigation Planning of Interdependent Infrastructure Systems: Case Study of Jamaica
Hazards cause huge social disruptions and economic losses each year. Community disaster resilience relies on the capacity of critical infrastructure systems to maintain acceptable levels of functionality during a disruptive event and to recover promptly after the event. A proper predisaster risk mitigation planning framework can aid communities by working in advance to understand the preexisting local needs, identify the leaders, form partnerships, establish resources, and seize opportunities to increase community disaster resilience. Although numerous theoretical studies exist on developing models to support infrastructure predisaster risk mitigation, these models have not been properly incorporated into the decision-making process in existing studies. This lack of incorporation impedes the transfer of theoretical knowledge to practical policymaking. High-level predisaster infrastructure risk mitigation decisions for multiple infrastructure systems are especially in need of such an illustration due to the complexity introduced by the scale. This paper defines the interdependent infrastructure risk mitigation (IIRM) problem in a risk-informed decision-making framework and illustrates the entire decision-making process using a case study on predisaster risk mitigation planning of the interdependent critical infrastructure systems in Jamaica. This region is vulnerable to natural hazards but has received little attention in the literature.
Risk-Informed Decision-Making for Predisaster Risk Mitigation Planning of Interdependent Infrastructure Systems: Case Study of Jamaica
He, Xian (author) / Cha, Eun Jeong (author)
2021-08-12
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