#california rains are a glimpse of legacy #infrastructure confronting extreme #weather events. With , we estimated how #climatechange will alter future California post-fire debris flows and #transportation impacts. wildfires.resilientinfrastructure.org. escholarship.org/uc/item/60d0k7
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Mikhail Chester
@mikhailchester
Urban Infrastructure; Energy, Environment, Climate Change; Resilience; Transportation
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#SouthwestAirlines's decentralized model created vulnerabilities to climate hazards. Cascading failures occurred across the human resources that drive #transportation #infrastructure. Decentralized infrastructure do not always produce resilience. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108
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Cars are information systems becoming more tightly integrated into our sensemaking. Mobile sensing will improve our understanding of weather. Integrating car data streams into weather decisionmaking means cars will take on new roles beyond mobility.
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#Infrastructure transformation necessitates a recognition of social, ecological, and technological systems (SETS) dynamics. In this work, we discuss why cities need to evolve from SES to SETS #resilience &how Safe-to-fail design leverages SETS capabilities
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#infrastructure must function in increasingly complex environments yet appear increasingly unable to do so. In our latest work we describe Infrastructure Autopoiesis, the requisite variety to engage complexity. doi.org/10.1088/2634-4
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Take a look at my recent article in on how we should invest in #infrastructure. Technologies, governance, control, and expectations of stability will need to change to help future generations thrive.
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I had the pleasure of speaking with Prof. on value-focused thinking. She presents a compelling case for restructuring how we approach #infrastructure based on current and future values.
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There's a lot of talk about infrastructure function, but not the values behind infrastructure decisions. In this episode, @mikhailchester interviews @AdjoKennedy about how value-focused thinking can guide infrastructure decisions to deal with complexity.
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There's a lot of talk about infrastructure function, but not the values behind infrastructure decisions. In this episode, interviews about how value-focused thinking can guide infrastructure decisions to deal with complexity.
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We advocate that "loose-fit" #infrastructure solutions are needed to adapt to the deep uncertainty of climate change. and I wrote an op-ed at about how infrastructure investments need to give us the ability to pivot in the future.
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We are thrilled to published the newest volume in #TheRightfulPlaceOfScience series, INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE by & Brad Allenby.
Read an exclusive excerpt on the CSPO site!
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As the world becomes more complex our #infrastructure must respond in pace. Their ability to do so rests on how they are governed. Hear my discussion with Complexity Leadership pioneer in the , & see our recent paper here: doi.org/10.1525/elemen
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Infrastructure are extremely complex, and so too are the governance mechanisms that guide them. Hear @mikhailchester interview @MaryUhlBien about #infrastructure #leadership in the face of growing #complexity.
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Awesome to see excitement around #infrastructure! and I discuss infrastructure investment for rapid decarbonization and #ClimateAdaptation at :
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The COVIDFuture Survey Project (covidfuture.org), led by and , and sponsored by and , is pleased to announce release of Wave 1 of Survey Data.
Download the data - dataverse.asu.edu/dataset.xhtml?
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Check out my new book with Braden Allenby: The Rightful Place of Science: Infrastructure in the Anthropocene. We describe how #infrastructure must change for a more complex world and future. amazon.com/dp/0999587781
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I had the pleasure of interviewing Prof. for the to frame #infrastructure as knowledge systems. The types of knowledge that our infrastructure systems are able to make sense of today and in the future is critical. Listen here:
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Excited to have a new article led by on #infrastructure #resilience in the #Anthropocene in the inaugural issue of #UrbanSustainability:
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Infrastructure must embrace agility and flexibility in technologies and governance, and change how they make sense of their environments. Read our article in the launch issue of npj Urban Sustainability. nature.com/articles/s4294
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Please join me Dec. 7-9 as I host a forum on Infrastructure and the Anthropocene. I'm chatting with three prolific speakers who will challenge what #infrastructure are and should do in the future. Registration is free! asu.zoom.us/webinar/regist
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What can we learn about future #infrastructure #resilience challenges from #COVID? Concurrent hazard planning, rethinking criticality, efficiency-resilience tradeoffs, and leadership for instability. doi.org/10.3389/fbuil.
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Here is the message I sent to the community earlier today regarding recent events and what we plan to do.
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I wrote about how our infrastructure is designed based on past climate data. This doesn't make sense because humans have fundamentally changed what the future climate will be like. We're planning for a climate that's already gone.
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#infrastructure are designed for past environmental conditions, and #climatechange is a future characterized by uncertainty. does a nice job describing challenges: vice.com/en_us/article/. See and my related commentary doi.org/10.1038/s41558
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Just a quick chat about resilience with , , and , followed by a discussion between Cheryl Desha and Samantha Hayes about biomimicry: "Biomimicry and Infrastructure Resilience" at buzzsprout.com/125676/3992975
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Some of the #COVID19 challenges have solutions rooted in how we manage engineered #infrastructure for disasters. Brad Allenby and I discuss how addressing peak demand pandemic challenges (e.g., ventilators) can be approached through a #resilience lens.
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And we have , Shane Underwood, and discuss how to rethink prioritizing limited resources towards infrastructure in the face of climate uncertainty.
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Preparing #infrastructure for #ClimateChange requires reconciling PAST AND FUTURE environmental uncertainty. See our Commentary on how to rethink prioritizing limited resources towards infrastructure #resilience. #urexsrn doi.org/10.1038/s41558
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Evidence mounts that #cyber technologies are being integrated into legacy physical infrastructure systems at accelerating rates. Here we explore some of the lesser discussed implications for critical #infrastructure services.
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Traditionally infrastructure are designed as fail-safe. We argue that safe-to-fail design incorporates the consequences of failure in the design process, and will become ever more relevant with climate uncertainty. doi.org/10.1029/2019EF
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We've been exploring the challenges of making infrastructure less rigid. Rigidity is inimical to rapid change like climate and emerging technologies. Here, we review implementations of agile/flexible infrastructure: doi.org/10.1080/237896
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Infrastructure have an important place in meeting sustainability goals. However, we must learn how to manage infrastructure within the increasing complex world: doi.org/10.1038/s41893
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We've been rethinking the relationship between infrastructure and the environment. As the scale and scope of human activities have grown, infrastructure and the environment are becoming one in the same. doi.org/10.1111/jiec.1
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We have little insight into how #parking #infrastructure came to be, how much there is, and its impacts. See our study "Valley of the Sun-drenched Parking Space" on Phoenix: doi.org/10.1016/j.citi. transportationlca.org/phoenixparking/.
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#infrastructure are increasingly interconnected and reliant on the internet, information and communication technologies (ICT). And evidence is emerging that our ICT infrastructure are vulnerable to #climatechange nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/0 pages.cs.wisc.edu/~pb/anrw18_fin
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The dichotomy between infrastructure and the environment is shrinking as the scale and scope of human activities grows. See our recent piece in on the topic of reconceptualizing infrastructure in the anthropocene: issues.org/34-3/reconcept
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With increasing extreme events refuges become more critical. They provide shelter and critical services. Yet cities haven't been strategic in locating refuges. We evaluate how to best locate refuges to protect people from heat in #Phoenix and #LosAngeles. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ucli
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Excited to have two chapters in 's new Parking and the City book (books.google.com/books?id=yR9WD). Ch 13 is our parking estimate for the US, probably 1.5b spaces (dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9). Ch 14 is our 2015 JAPA study of parking growth in LA (dx.doi.org/10.1080/019443).
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Could Phoenix experience a Katrina of extreme heat? The potential for cascading failures in interdependent infrastructure during heat waves is troublesome. See our discussion here: dx.doi.org/10.1080/237896
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Discussing #infrastructure life-cycle assessment Paris workshop on Material Trends in #Transportation.
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Network learning in action - multiple backgrounds, disciplines, cities, cultures, sectors, visions thinking together for resilience.
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