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The spatial exposure of the Chinese infrastructure system to flooding and drought hazards
Recent rapid urbanisation means that China has invested in an enormous amount of infrastructure, much of which is vulnerable to natural …
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Trading-off tolerable risk with climate change adaptation costs in water supply systems
Choosing secure water resource management plans inevitably requires trade-offs between risks (for a variety of stakeholders), costs, …
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Vulnerability assessment framework for interdependent critical infrastructures: case-study for Great Britain’s rail network
Critical infrastructures vulnerability assessment involves understanding various sociotechnological aspects of modern day …
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Water and climate risks to power generation with carbon capture and storage
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) provides the opportunity to minimize atmospheric carbon emissions from fossil fuel power plants. …
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Water use in China’s thermoelectric power sector
We quantify the current water use of China’s thermoelectric power sector with plant-level data. We also quantify the future …
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Assessing water resource system vulnerability to unprecedented hydrological drought using copulas to characterize drought duration and deficit
Global climate models suggest an increase in evapotranspiration, changing storm tracks, and moisture delivery in many parts of the …
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Feedback structure of cliff and shore platform morphodynamics
It has been suggested that studies of geomorphological systems should identify potential system feedbacks, determine their direction of …
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Numerical rivers: A synthetic streamflow generator for water resources vulnerability assessments
The vulnerability of water supplies to shortage depends on the complex interplay between streamflow variability and the management and …
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Assessing the Long-Term Performance of Cross-Sectoral Strategies for National Infrastructure
National infrastructure systems (energy, transport, digital communications, water, and waste) provide essential services to society. …
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Coping with the curse of freshwater variability
Coping with variable and unpredictable freshwater resources represents a profound challenge to climate adaptation. Rainfall, snowmelt, …
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