Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • Comment
  • Published:

Barriers to gauging built environment climate vulnerability

Nature Climate Change volume 10, pages 482–485 (2020)Cite this article

Subjects

Climate change will increase the intensity and frequency of a range of natural hazards, from floods to wildfires, which impact the built environment. More research is needed on buildings and infrastructure performance under different climate-driven events to support recovery predictions and effective mitigation policies.

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Relevant articles

Open Access articles citing this article.

Access options

Buy this article

  • Purchase on Springer Link
  • Instant access to full article PDF
Buy now

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

Fig. 1: The damage prediction process.

References

  1. Olsen, R. Adapting Infrastructure and Civil Engineering Practice to a Changing Climate (Committee on Technical Advancement of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015).

  2. Kennedy, R. & Ravindra, M. Nucl. Eng. Des. 79, 47–68 (1984).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  3. SEAOC Vision 2000 Committee. Performance-Based Seismic Engineering (Structural Engineers Association of California, 1995).

  4. Lin, N. et al. Climate Change 154, 143–158 (2019).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  5. Forzieri, G. et al. Climate Change 137, 105–119 (2016).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  6. Memari, M. et al. J. Struct. Eng. 144, 04018072 (2018).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  7. Hassan, E. & Mahmoud, H. Eng. Struct. 188, 165–177 (2019).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  8. Prestandard for Performance-Based Wind Design (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019).

  9. AghaKouchak, A. et al. Nature 561, 458–460 (2018).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  10. NAE Grand Challenges for Engineering (National Academy of Engineering, 2018).

  11. Koks, E. et al. Nat. Commun. 10, 2677 (2019).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  12. Gidaris, I. et al. J. Struct. Eng. 143, 04016188 (2017).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  13. Nateghi. et al. Risk Anal. https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.13337 (2019).

  14. Wiebe, D. & Cox, D. Nat. Hazards 71, 2043–2061 (2014).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  15. Attary, N. et al. Nat. Hazards 93, 1295–1316 (2018).

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

    Hussam Mahmoud

Authors
  1. Hussam Mahmoud
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Hussam Mahmoud.

Ethics declarations

Competing interests

The author declares no competing interests.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Mahmoud, H. Barriers to gauging built environment climate vulnerability. Nat. Clim. Chang. 10, 482–485 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0742-z

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0742-z

This article is cited by

Search

Advanced search

Quick links

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing