The Metis Center Library provides links to critical readings by theme that the associated faculty have curated that represent foundational thinking for Sustainable Engineering and Resilient Infrastructure.
Sustainable Engineering
Allenby, B., & Chester, M. (in press). Infrastructure and the Environment in the Anthropocene. Journal of Industrial Ecology.
Allenby, B., & Chester, M. (2018). Reconceptualizing Infrastructure in the Anthropocene. Issues in Science and Technology. 34(3).
Allenby, B. (2005). Reconstructing Earth Technology and Environment in the Age of Humans. Island Press. ISBN: 978-1597260152.
Allenby, B., & Sarewitz, D. (2013). Techno-human condition. The MIT Press. ISBN: 978-0262294409.
Allenby, B. (2011). The theory and practice of sustainable engineering. Pearson. ISBN: 978-0133002218.
Allenby, B., & Chester, M. V. (2018). Toward adaptive infrastructure: Flexibility and agility in a non-stationary age. Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, 3(1), pp. 1-19. doi: 10.1080/23789689.2017.1416846.
Kaplan, S., & Garrick, B. J. (1981). On The Quantitative Definition of Risk. Risk Analysis, 1(1), pp. 11-27. doi: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.1981.tb01350.x.
Resilient Infrastructure
Ahern, J. (2011). From fail-safe to safe-to-fail: Sustainability and resilience in the new urban world. Landscape and Urban Planning, 100(4), pp. 341-343. doi: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2011.02.021.
Alderson, D. L., Brown, G. G., & Carlyle, W. M. (2015). Operational Models of Infrastructure Resilience. Risk Analysis, 35(4), pp. 562-586. doi: 10.1111/risa.12333.
Anderies, J. M., Folke, C., Walker, B., & Ostrom, E. (2013). Aligning Key Concepts for Global Change Policy: Robustness, Resilience, and Sustainability. Ecology and Society, 18(2). doi: 10.5751/es-05178-180208.
Cutter, S., Barnes, L., Berry, M., Burton, C., Evans, E., Tate, E., & Webb, J. (2008). A place-based model for understanding community resilience to natural disasters. Global Environmental Change, 18(4), pp. 598-606. doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2008.07.013.
Francis, R., & Bekera, B. (2014). A metric and frameworks for resilience analysis of engineered and infrastructure systems. Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 121, pp. 90-103. doi: 10.1016/j.ress.2013.07.004.
Hollnagel, E. (2014). Resilience engineering and the built environment. Building Research & Information, 42(2), pp. 221-228. doi: 10.1080/09613218.2014.862607.
Hosseini, S., Barker, K., & Ramirez-Marquez, J. E. (2016). A review of definitions and measures of system resilience. Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 145, pp. 47-61. doi: 10.1016/j.ress.2015.08.006.
Park, J., Seager, T. P., & Rao, P. S. (2011). Lessons in risk- versus resilience-based design and management. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, 7(3), pp. 396-399. doi:10.1002/ieam.228.
Park, J., Seager, T. P., Rao, P. S., Convertino, M., & Linkov, I. (2013). Integrating Risk and Resilience Approaches to Catastrophe Management in Engineering Systems. Risk Analysis, 33(3), pp. 356-367. doi: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2012.01885.x.
Rinaldi, S., Peerenboom, J., & Kelly, T. (2001). Identifying, understanding, and analyzing critical infrastructure interdependencies. IEEE Control Systems, 21(6), pp. 11-25. doi: 10.1109/37.969131.
Seager, T. P., Clark, S. S., Eisenberg, D. A., Thomas, J. E., Hinrichs, M. M., Kofron, R., . . . Alderson, D. L. (2017). Redesigning Resilient Infrastructure Research. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security Resilience and Risk, pp. 81-119. doi: 10.1007/978-94-024-1123-2_3.
Walker, B., Holling, C. S., Carpenter, S. R., & Kinzig, A. P. (2004). Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability in Social-ecological Systems. Ecology and Society, 9(2). doi: 10.5751/es-00650-090205.
Woods, D. D. (2015). Four concepts for resilience and the implications for the future of resilience engineering. Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 141, pp. 5-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ress.2015.03.018.
Infrastructure and Climate Change
Adger, W. (2006). Vulnerability. Global Environmental Change, 16(3), pp. 268-281. doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2006.02.006.
Biggs, R., Schlüter, M., Biggs, D., Bohensky, E. L., Burnsilver, S., Cundill, G., . . . West, P. C. (2012). Toward Principles for Enhancing the Resilience of Ecosystem Services. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 37(1), pp. 421-448. doi: 10.1146/annurev-environ-051211-123836.
Gallopín, G. C. (2006). Linkages between vulnerability, resilience, and adaptive capacity. Global Environmental Change, 16(3), pp. 293-303. doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2006.02.004.
Olsen, J., Ed. (2015). Adapting infrastructure and civil engineering practice to a changing climate. American Society of Civil Engineers. ISBN: 9780784479193.
Smit, B., & Wandel, J. (2006). Adaptation, adaptive capacity and vulnerability. Global Environmental Change, 16(3), pp. 282-292. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2006.03.008.
Defense and Security
Carse, A. (n.d.). ‘Keyword: Infrastructure: How a humble French engineering term shaped the modern world’, in Harvey, P., Bruun Jensen, C., and Morita, A. (eds) Infrastructures and Social Complexity, pp. 27-39. ISBN: 978-1138654945.
Clark, S. S., Seager, T., & Chester, M. (2018). A Capabilities Approach to the Prioritization of Critical Infrastructure. Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, 3(1), pp. 1-19. doi: 10.1080/23789689.2017.1416846.
Department of Homeland Security. (2013). Nipp 2013 – Partnering for Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience.
DHS Risk Lexicon.(2010). Risk Steering Committee.
