Invited Session: How Resilient Should U.S. Infrastructure Be? Breaking Past Resilience Norms Through Convergent Research

Wed. 4:15 to 5:45 p.m., Interlocken C
Concurrent Session 1-1

Communities rely on physical, social, and economic infrastructure. This session combines a mix of scholars and practitioners from various disciplines to explore resilience norms as they relate to ethics, law, public policy, and engineering and planning practice. Panelists will describe issues and principles associated with changing resilience norms that are grounded in research. They will also share professional experiences from bias studies in disaster mitigation and recovery, benefit-cost analyses, disaster planning scenarios, restricting laws, and the ethics of not acting.

Organizer and Moderator: Elaina Sutley, University of Kansas

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