Adaptation of Critical Infrastructure

In the context of climate change, adapting to the impacts of climate extremes is key. The following notebooks provide an introduction to tools and methods that support the quantification of different adaptation strategies’ costs, and the reduced risks associated to those measures.

• The first two sections: Direct damages and Indirect losses focus on the calculation of direct damages of riverine flooding to railway infrastructure. They set the impacts of present and future climate change conditions.

• The following sections: Costs of adaptation strategies and Avoided damages and adaptation costs quantify how different types of Adaptation measures would result in risk reduction as well as the associated costs.

The overall objective of this section is to provide examples on how different types of adaptations, from asset-level interventions to network-level and system changes, decrease risk.