MS Title:
Multi-dimension Resilience Enhancement for Urban Critical Infrastructure Systems

Description:
Enhancing resilience of urban critical infrastructure systems to natural hazards, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes and storm surge, and man-made threats, has been a major concern to urban communities. The aftermath of such disasters worldwide has shown that effective hazard mitigation strategies must enhance the resilience of a community as a whole in addition to physical restoration of individual facilities. Urban resilience depends on large-scale, interdependent physical infrastructure systems and networks that can support quick recovery of urban communities following a disaster. It is essential that many disciplines among engineering, economics and sociology dimensions, work in concert to develop multi-dimensional resilience-driven decision frameworks. The aim of this mini-symposium is addressing the advances in theories and methods of resilience enhancement of critical infrastructure systems from engineering, economics as well as sociology dimensions. The scope of the mini-symposium is broad, and contributions related to above-mentioned subject and other pertinent topics are welcome.

Session Chairs:
Wei Liu, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. E-mail: liuw@tongji.edu.cn
Min Ouyang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. E-mail: min.ouyang@hust.edu.cn
Naiyu Wang, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. E-mail: naiyuwang@zju.edu.cn