Quantitative metrics of system resilience: assessing system flexibility to environmental constraints

Benjamin Sprecher

Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Center for Industrial Ecology

Benjamin Sprecher is an assistant professor at the Leiden University Institute of Environmental Sciences, where he works on urban resilience and resilience in the supply chains of critical materials.

Abstract

Global environmental issues such as decreasing resource endowments and climate change threaten to disrupt our economic systems. As such, system resilience is an integral aspect of sustainable development, to the extent that... [ view full abstract ]

Authors

  1. Benjamin Sprecher (Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Center for Industrial Ecology)
  2. David Font Vivanco (Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Center for Industrial Ecology)
  3. Chunyan Wang (Tsinghua University)

Topic Areas

• Complexity, resilience and sustainability , • Sustainability and resilience metrics , • Advances in methods (e.g., life cycle assessment, social impact assessment, resilience a

Session

WS-11 » Resilient infrastructure 1 (11:30 - Wednesday, 28th June, Room H)

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