Characterizing infrastructure vulnerability to climate change is essential given the long asset lives, criticality of services delivered and high costs of upgrading and maintaining these systems. Reconciling uncertainty from past infrastructure design decisions with future uncertainty of climate change will help prioritize limited resources to high risk assets.
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This commentary reflects many years of knowledge building supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation (grant nos. SRN 1444755, HDBE 1635490, S&CC 1831475, CMMI 1635638/1635686 and GCR 1934933).
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Chester, M., Underwood, B.S. & Samaras, C. Keeping infrastructure reliable under climate uncertainty. Nat. Clim. Chang. 10, 488–490 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0741-0
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