【建设管理与房地产系学术讲座】 

题目： Sustainable Development: the Role of Built Environment Resilience

可持续发展：建设环境韧性的作用 

演讲人： Prof. Chimay Anumba 

时间：2019年11月14日9:30AM-11:00AM 

地点: 同济大厦A楼 305教室 

讲座语言: 英语 

报告人简介 

Chimay Anumba is Professor and Dean of the College of Design, Construction and Planning at The University of Florida. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, FREng (the United Kingdom’s National Academy of Engineering). He holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Leeds, UK; a higher doctorate – D.Sc. (Doctor of Science) – from Loughborough University, UK; and an Honorary Doctorate (Dr.h.c.) from Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands. He has over 450 scientific publications and his work has received support worth over $150m from a variety of sources. He has also supervised 48 doctoral candidates to completion and mentored over 25 postdoctoral researchers. He is the recipient of the 2018 ASCE Computing in Civil Engineering Award.  

内容简介

Synopsis

With the growing interest in sustainable development, it is increasingly important to ensure the resilience of the built environment. This is underscored by the increasing severity and frequency of adverse weather events and rising sea levels. These have been attributed to climate change, and it is imperative that built environment researchers and practitioners formulate strategies for addressing this. In this regard enhancing built environment resilience is considered a critical component of sustainable development, as it has the capacity to contribute to the three key facets of sustainability – environmental, economic and social. This lecture will explore the concept of resilience, and its importance in the development of the built and natural environment to be less vulnerable to adverse weather impacts. It will argue that built environment resilience is best achieved within the context of a ‘system of systems’ approach to sustainable development, which recognizes the interdependencies of the built and natural environments, as well as the interconnectedness of various building and civil infrastructure systems. Examples will be drawn, where appropriate, from the approach being adopted in a number of research and community-oriented projects being undertaken by the Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience (FIBER).