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Civil Engineers Think About Infrastructure Resilience in a Global Way
February 25, 2016
In December, University of New Mexico Civil Engineering Department Chair and Professor Mahmoud Taha and Associate Professor of Civil Engineering Mark Stone traveled to the Suez Canal for a conference sponsored by the National Science Foundation. They were there to talk about resilience. Stone presented a talk on ways to apply resilience theory to socio-ecological systems and how that framework can be applied to water resources infrastructure projects, while Taha chaired the workshop and talked about methods to quantify infrastructure resilience.