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Item Open Access The impact of climate hazards to airport systems: a synthesis of the implications and risk mitigation trends(Taylor and Francis, 2023-01-06) Voskaki, Asimina; Budd, Thomas; Mason, KeithClimate hazards have only fairly recently been acknowledged as key risk factors for airports. While there is a growing body of research examining specific climate change impacts, there is only limited work that combines this literature with overall climate risk. This paper seeks to address this gap in the literature by investigating and synthesising findings from studies relating to historical airport sensitivity to climate hazards and offering insights on the overall climate risk for the global airport system. With airports increasingly needing to become more “climate-resilient” due to projected changes in global climate, airport planners and decision-makers face challenges in terms of identifying key priority areas for resilience planning and investment. The findings of the paper provide insights into these challenges by examining best-applied practices and current levels of vulnerability. The paper supports the wider inclusion of climate risks as a key factor in airports’ planning and operational processes. This will require transforming current management cultures to enhance an airport's operational ability to respond to climate events efficiently and recover quickly in the event of a disruption.Item Open Access Modelling framework for evaluation environmental strategy and water management efficency at airports(Cranfield University, 2011-04) Voskaki, Asimina; Dimitriou, D.The growing concern about climate change and environmental protection represent significant barriers towards growth in the aviation sector. Currently, airport operators need to consider not only noise control and local air, soil and water pollution management, but also to control the consumption of nonrenewable natural resources and to minimise their impact on climate change. A detailed analysis of current applied practices pointed out that the main issues that airports need to manage, have to do principally with control of natural resources consumption, control of noise and management of emissions, water quality, waste and ecosystems. Although these issues in most of cases have been identified, airports’ priorities regarding their management were not easily acknowledged. The key findings of this research suggest that in the case of environmental management strategies, different patterns exist; thus, some airports seem to seek balance mostly between mitigating global and local environmental issues or resource consumption control and pollution management, while others obviously take measures aimed at managing one or the other impact. In the case of water management efficiency, while many airports seem to have applied measures to sustain water quality, only a few of them have applied sufficient consumption control measures.Item Open Access Quantifying climate risks to infrastructure systems: a comparative review of developments across infrastructure sectors(PLoS, 2024-04-04) Verschuur, Jasper; Fernandez-Perez, Alberto; Muhlhofer, Evelyn; Nirandjan, Sadhana; Borgomeo, Edoardo; Becher, Olivia; Voskaki, Asimina; Oughton, Edward J.; Stankovski, Andrej; Greco, Salvatore F.; Koks, Elco E.; Pant, Raghav; Hall, Jim W.Infrastructure systems are particularly vulnerable to climate hazards, such as flooding, wildfires, cyclones and temperature fluctuations. Responding to these threats in a proportionate and targeted way requires quantitative analysis of climate risks, which underpins infrastructure resilience and adaptation strategies. The aim of this paper is to review the recent developments in quantitative climate risk analysis for key infrastructure sectors, including water and wastewater, telecommunications, health and education, transport (seaports, airports, road, rail and inland waterways), and energy (generation, transmission and distribution). We identify several overarching research gaps, which include the (i) limited consideration of multi-hazard and multi-infrastructure interactions within a single modelling framework, (ii) scarcity of studies focusing on certain combinations of climate hazards and infrastructure types, (iii) difficulties in scaling-up climate risk analysis across geographies, (iv) increasing challenge of validating models, (v) untapped potential of further knowledge spillovers across sectors, (vi) need to embed equity considerations into modelling frameworks, and (vii) quantifying a wider set of impact metrics. We argue that a cross-sectoral systems approach enables knowledge sharing and a better integration of infrastructure interdependencies between multiple sectors.