Resilience, Sustainability and Risk Management: A Focus on Energy
The natural and subsequent human disasters of March 11, 2011 in Japan have brought into focus more than ever the importance of resilience and risk mitigation in the construction of energy infrastructure. This article introduces some of the critical issues and discusses the implications of energy in...
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| author | N. Agya Utama Keiichi N. Ishihara Hooman Farzaneh Qi Zhang Benjamin McLellan |
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| description | The natural and subsequent human disasters of March 11, 2011 in Japan have brought into focus more than ever the importance of resilience and risk mitigation in the construction of energy infrastructure. This article introduces some of the critical issues and discusses the implications of energy in alleviating or exacerbating the risks of natural disasters. Additionally, it presents a framework for considering the risks of energy systems from a broad perspective. The connection is drawn between design for sustainability and the risks associated with energy systems in natural disasters. As a result of the assessment, six criteria are proposed for energy systems to contribute to societal resilience in the face of natural disasters—they should be: (1) Continuous; (2) Robust; (3) Independent; (4) Controllable; (5) Non-hazardous; and (6) Matched to demand. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2c5c954e92c84eebad5206f38e156b9c2022-12-22T01:23:37ZengMDPI AGChallenges2078-15472012-08-013215318210.3390/challe3020153Resilience, Sustainability and Risk Management: A Focus on EnergyN. Agya UtamaKeiichi N. IshiharaHooman FarzanehQi ZhangBenjamin McLellanThe natural and subsequent human disasters of March 11, 2011 in Japan have brought into focus more than ever the importance of resilience and risk mitigation in the construction of energy infrastructure. This article introduces some of the critical issues and discusses the implications of energy in alleviating or exacerbating the risks of natural disasters. Additionally, it presents a framework for considering the risks of energy systems from a broad perspective. The connection is drawn between design for sustainability and the risks associated with energy systems in natural disasters. As a result of the assessment, six criteria are proposed for energy systems to contribute to societal resilience in the face of natural disasters—they should be: (1) Continuous; (2) Robust; (3) Independent; (4) Controllable; (5) Non-hazardous; and (6) Matched to demand.http://www.mdpi.com/2078-1547/3/2/153sustainabilityriskresiliencedistributedinfrastructureenergyemissions |
| spellingShingle | N. Agya Utama Keiichi N. Ishihara Hooman Farzaneh Qi Zhang Benjamin McLellan Resilience, Sustainability and Risk Management: A Focus on Energy Challenges sustainability risk resilience distributed infrastructure energy emissions |
| title | Resilience, Sustainability and Risk Management: A Focus on Energy |
| title_full | Resilience, Sustainability and Risk Management: A Focus on Energy |
| title_fullStr | Resilience, Sustainability and Risk Management: A Focus on Energy |
| title_full_unstemmed | Resilience, Sustainability and Risk Management: A Focus on Energy |
| title_short | Resilience, Sustainability and Risk Management: A Focus on Energy |
| title_sort | resilience sustainability and risk management a focus on energy |
| topic | sustainability risk resilience distributed infrastructure energy emissions |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/2078-1547/3/2/153 |
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