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Extreme Weather and Climate Hazard Impacts on Energy and Water Utilities: Implications for Department of the Air Force Installation Climate Resilience Planning
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Van Abel, Kristin
- Language:
- English
- Other Title:
- Extreme Weather and Climate Hazard Impacts on Energy and Water Utilities
- Place of Publication:
- RAND Corporation 2024
- Summary:
- A basic first step in improving the resilience of military installation infrastructure is understanding potential infrastructure exposure to extreme weather- and climate-related effects. RAND Project AIR FORCE was asked to develop an approach for estimating utility system exposure to extreme weather- and climate-related hazards for the purpose of informing at which installations the Department of the Air Force (DAF) might consider prioritizing deep-dive vulnerability assessments. Previous efforts to understand the implications of climate change have focused on installations; in this report, the researchers focused on utility infrastructures that are outside the fence line. The researchers used case studies, supported by qualitative and quantitative analysis, to demonstrate their hazard exposure approach, which characterizes the historical and, where possible, potential future exposure of energy and water utility systems supporting DAF installations. The researchers focused on a select set of extreme weather- and climate-related effects for three regions: the mid-Atlantic, the Southwest, and Alaska. In their analysis, the researchers consider the local and regional regulatory environment and demonstrate an approach that estimates the relative resilience capacity of utility systems in these regions using a set of indicators.
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