New infrastructure model prioritizes disaster spending for vulnerable cities
A University of Houston engineering professor is helping cities, utilities and transportation agencies prepare for and recover from natural disasters. All these organizations face the same challenge: They know the next hurricane, flood, wildfire or other major disruption will occur, but they do not...
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A University of Houston engineering professor is helping cities, utilities and transportation agencies prepare for and recover from natural disasters. All these organizations face the same challenge: They know the next hurricane, flood, wildfire or other major disruption will occur, but they do not have enough resources to strengthen every vulnerable piece of infrastructure.
Originally published at Phys.org
