Flood vulnerability of critical infrastructure in Cork, Ireland

Bruijn, K de; Cumiskey, Lydia; Dhubhda, Róisín Ní; Hounjet, Micheline; Hynes, William

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/20160707005

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“…The effects of floods on critical infrastructure (CI) and potential cascading effects are often not included in flood impact analyses, although they can impact society severely [6]. Disruptions in power supply, for example, resulted in disruptions in critical services which caused serious business interruption [7][8][9]. Disruptions in transport and communication networks also hamper emergency management and recovery after flood events and lengthen the period during which communities are affected.…”

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Flood Resilience of Critical Infrastructure: Approach and Method Applied to Fort Lauderdale, Florida

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Maran²,

Zygnerski³

et al. 2019

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In order to increase the flood resilience of cities (i.e., the ability to cope with flood hazards), it is also crucial to make critical infrastructure functions resilient, since these are essential for urban society. Cities are complex systems with many actors of different disciplines and many interdependent critical infrastructure networks and functions. Common flood risk analysis techniques provide useful information but are not sufficient to obtain a complete overview of the effects of flooding and potential measures to increase flood resilience related to critical infrastructure networks. Therefore, a more comprehensive approach is needed which helps accessing knowledge of actors in a structured way. Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States has suffered from flood impacts, especially from disruptions in critical infrastructure. This paper shows how shared insight among different sectors and stakeholders into critical infrastructure resilience and potential resilience-enhancing measures was obtained using input from these actors. It also provides a first quantitative indication of resilience, indicated by the potential disruption due to floods and the effect of measures on resilience. The paper contributes to the existing literature on resilience specifically by considering the duration of disruption, the inclusion of critical infrastructure disruption in flood impact analysis, and the step from resilience quantification to measures.

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Flood Resilience of Critical Infrastructure: Approach and Method Applied to Fort Lauderdale, Florida

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Maran²,

Zygnerski³

et al. 2019

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“…It is considered as critical because an outage of the infrastructure has a serious effect on many people over a long period. In other studies, stated that critical infrastructure includes physical resources, services, information technology facilities, networks and infrastructure assets which, if destroyed by the flood, would have a serious impact on the health, safety or economic of the victims [19].…”

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“…A research of reducing future vulnerability of critical infrastructure to flooding, which was also to build a more resilient society [19]. In order to reduce the flood vulnerability and increase the resilience of the critical infrastructure networks in future, detailed evidence-based analysis and vulnerability assessment is needed.…”

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“…A researcher takes the coping capacity of infrastructures for the study while in other study, gathered data together with literature reviews and analysed by using software to identify physical infrastructures that cannot sustain flood [24,26]. On the other hand, some of researcher also used analysis based on taking responses from the respondent before, during and after flood event [19]. Nevertheless, it shows that post-event study is essential in identifying critical infrastructures in flood prone areas as well as estimating the flood vulnerability on the life and property in that areas.…”

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Flood Vulnerability of Critical Infrastructures - Review

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Bolong²,

Roslee³

et al. 2018

Pak. j. geol.

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Flood event is one of the natural disasters that increasingly threaten the safety of the people in an area. Critical infrastructure albeit important, has been shown to be vulnerable to flooding and damages to critical infrastructure element may affect large areas over a longer time period. Critical infrastructures play an important role in functioning of industries and communities and also responding against flooding to reduce their impacts. Critical infrastructures such as hospital, school, road networks and other infrastructures are important during flood event to serve as emergency services. It was found that there is difference in understanding the concept of vulnerability with varying assessments and different view. This paper briefly reviews the concept of vulnerability and discusses on the approach used for flood vulnerability of critical infrastructure by past researchers to identify and fortify the vulnerable critical infrastructure ahead of time reducing the potential damage due to flood. This paper focuses the vulnerability of critical infrastructure during flood event and also describes several approaches with a discussion on the application of the approaches used and the relevance results.

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“…The INTACT team prepares and organises workshops with stakeholders and organisations in different regions and with different responsibilities for CI (see for example [6]). …”

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EU-INTACT-case studies: Impact of extreme weather on critical Infrastructure

Ruiten

Bles

Kiel³

2016

E3S Web Conf.

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Abstract. The resilience of critical infrastructures (CI) to Extreme Weather Events (EWE) is one of the most salient and demanding challenges facing society. Growing scientific evidence suggests that more frequent and severe weather extremes such as heat waves, hurricanes and droughts and their effects such as flooding are having an ever increasing impact, with the range and effects on society exacerbated when CI is disrupted or destroyed. Disruptions of CI systems frequently cause major social and economic losses, both directly and through failures in one system leading to disruptions in another (cascading effects). The ability to ensure continuity in services provided by CI directly relates to the resilience of communities to withstand and recover from disasters. The approach adopted by the INTACT-project recognizes that a European-wide coordinated and cooperative effort is required because of cross border CI-activities and impacts as well as an integrated EU-policy.The INTACT-case studies and their expected outcomes are designed to bring added value for the concerned stakeholders locally and demonstrate the validity and applicability of the INTACT approach at the broader (European) scale. To achieve this, the selected case studies are geographically spread across Europe encompassing different climate, landscape and environmental zones, as to provide coverage of a representative range of CI types and also including different levels of governance.One of the case studies is located in the Netherlands and deals with the port of Rotterdam. The situation in Rotterdam is representative for many other main ports in Europe. These ports are all situated in a delta area, near the sea and rivers or canals. Also, these ports are close to urban areas and industrial complexes. Finally, these ports have a multimodal transport infrastructure to and from its hinterland, which is also vulnerable for extreme weather events. The case study is not only significant for the development of methods and tools, but also of direct interest for the region itself. The combination of the National Water safety policy and the best practices from the INTACT cases offer challenges to create better adaptation options and coping capacity to these relatively unforeseen and unexpected impacts based on climate cKDQJH VFHQDULR ¶V DQG VRFLR-economic megatrends.

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Flood vulnerability of critical infrastructure in Cork, Ireland

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Flood Resilience of Critical Infrastructure: Approach and Method Applied to Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Flood Resilience of Critical Infrastructure: Approach and Method Applied to Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Flood Vulnerability of Critical Infrastructures - Review

EU-INTACT-case studies: Impact of extreme weather on critical Infrastructure

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