Applying Resilience Concepts to Inland River Systems

Abstract

As environmental uncertainty increases, incorporating resilience into project assessments, research recommendations, and future plans is becoming even more critical. This US Army Engineer Research and Development Center special report (SR) demonstrates how the concepts of resilience can be applied in a uniform framework and illustrates this framework through existing case studies on large inland river systems. This SR presents the concepts of resilience in inland river systems, the application of these concepts across disciplines, basic parameters of a resilience assessment, and the challenges and opportunities available for incorporating a more holistic approach to understanding resilience of the US Army Corps of Engineers mission areas on inland rivers. Finally, these concepts are demonstrated in several case studies in the United States to exemplify how these parameters have been applied to improve the overall performance of the system.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 25, 2021
Accession Number
AD1134115

Entities

People

  • Katherine F. Chambers
  • Waleska Echevarria-doyle

Organizations

  • Engineer Research and Development Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Army Corps Of Engineers
  • Business Administration
  • Case Studies
  • Climate Change
  • Climate Change Adaptation
  • Drainage Basins
  • Ecology
  • Engineers
  • Environment
  • Environmental Health
  • Environmental Protection
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Flood Control
  • Floods
  • Habitats
  • Mississippi River
  • Natural Resources
  • Ohio River
  • Organizational Structure
  • Resilience
  • Resource Management
  • River Flooding
  • Sedimentation
  • Storm Surges
  • United States
  • Water Resources

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Coastal and Marine Engineering/Sediment Transport/Hydraulic Engineering
  • Systems Analysis and Design