CRISP 2.0 Type 2: Collaborative Research: Organizing Decentralized Resilience in Critical Interdependent-infrastructure Systems and Processes (ORDER-CRISP)

We aim to conduct transformative research on physical and social aspects of coastal vulnerability embedded in interdependent infrastructures by developing a highly integrated modeling framework. We establish the notion of decentralized resilience as a cascade-proofing mechanism in Critical Interdependent-infrastructure Systems and Processes (CRISP) to expand the landscape of thinking and planning resilience. We propose an innovative model to investigate and evaluate the coupled nature of vulnerabilities across physical and social systems at both micro and macro scales. We offer a comparative approach based on two highly vulnerable, heterogeneous (e.g., in location and social structure) cities on the U.S. coasts (Miami and Houston). The novelty lies in integrating five interdisciplinary research components: (i) incorporating wind and flood inundation risk into the utility and service disruption models to analyze and determine the extent of interdependent infrastructure failures in energy, water, transportation, and telecommunication sectors, (ii) constructing socio-infrastructural systems of vulnerability and analyzing evacuation/relocation behavior to assess the need for emergent critical infrastructure services, (iii) microsimulations for analyzing coping behaviors and facilitating decentralized resilience through information sharing and critical resource pooling, (iv) a macro ( city-level) inoperability-based resilience model to integrate household and social responses with disrupted interdependent infrastructure systems, and (v) an app to facilitate participatory resilience (RCROWD) through crowd-sourcing. New concepts, data, methods, and findings will deliver a scalable methodology to enhance resilience in hazard-prone coastal cities and beyond.