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Adapting critical infrastructure to climate change: A scoping review

Journal

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
Volume 135, Issue -, Pages 67-76

Publisher

ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2022.04.015

Keywords

Critical infrastructure; Climate change adaptation; Typology; Relationships; Physical infrastructure; Soft infrastructure; Land use planning; Asset management

Funding

  1. Australian Government
  2. Australian Research Council [FT180100652]
  3. Australian Research Council [FT180100652] Funding Source: Australian Research Council

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This paper investigates the relationship between critical infrastructure and climate change, proposes an outcomes-based definition for adaptive critical infrastructure, and analyzes how the focus and adaptation methods affect the adaptation outcomes.
Critical infrastructure is a foundational component of a functional society and is under threat from the impacts of climate change. To ensure communities are not left without fundamental supplies and services, the adaptation of critical infrastructure to climate change needs to be understood holistically. This paper uses a scoping literature review to investigate the relationship between critical infrastructure and climate change. In the absence of a common definition for adaptive critical infrastructure, an outcomes-based definition is proposed that captures the four types of critical infrastructure: physical, ecological, institutional and cultural. A typology was developed to critically interrogate the focus of adaptive critical infrastructure. It shows that the focus across elements such as conceptualisation and management ranges from tangible to intangible infrastructure, and from positivist to interpretivist in approach. The literature review identified relationship-building as a key management objective across the spectrums. The typology contributes knowledge on how the choice of infrastructure focus and adaptation methods influences adaptation outcomes and path dependencies.

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