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Resilient and Reliable Infrastructure - Julie Pietrzak and Iris Tien
Pages 57-58

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... , introduced the idea of infrastructure resiliency and discussed how to effectively communicate data science evidence to untrained audiences, explaining how infrastructure resiliency challenges can be made digestible by using advanced web applications with graphic interfaces to make the data both highly accessible and interactive. Robert Hanson (US Department of Homeland Security)
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... He showed how state-of-the-art modeling techniques can enhance understanding of the impacts of natural and anthropogenic hazards and gradual stressors, for example, sea level rise, on critical infrastructure. 1  Paper not included in this volume.
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