Kimberly Walker
Tanzania
Commentary
Perspective: The Climate-Population-Infrastructure Modelling and Simulation Fertile Area for New Research
Author(s): Steven Fernandez, Melissa Allen and Kimberly WalkerSteven Fernandez, Melissa Allen and Kimberly Walker
Managing the risks posed by climate change and extreme weather to energy production and delivery is a challenge to communities worldwide. As climate conditions change, populations will shift, and demand will re-locate; and networked infrastructures will evolve to accommodate new load centres, and, hopefully, minimize vulnerability to natural disaster. Climate effects such as sea level rise, increased frequency and intensity of natural disasters, force populations to move locations. Displaced population creates new demand for built infrastructure that in turn generates new economic activity that attracts new workers and associated households to the new locations. Infrastructures and their interdependencies will change in reaction to climate drivers as the networks expand into new population areas and as portions of the networks are abandoned as people leave. Thus, infrastructures will evo.. View More»
