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Stødle K, Flage R, Guikema S, Aven T. Artificial intelligence for risk analysis-A risk characterization perspective on advances, opportunities, and limitations. RISK ANALYSIS : AN OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE SOCIETY FOR RISK ANALYSIS 2024. [PMID: 38600041 DOI: 10.1111/risa.14307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2022] [Revised: 10/25/2023] [Accepted: 01/18/2024] [Indexed: 04/12/2024]
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has seen numerous applications for risk analysis and provides ample opportunities for developing new and improved methods and models for this purpose. In the present article, we conceptualize the use of AI for risk analysis by framing it as an input-algorithm-output process and linking such a setup to three tasks in establishing a risk description: consequence characterization, uncertainty characterization, and knowledge management. We then give an overview of currently used concepts and methods for AI-based risk analysis and outline potential future uses by extrapolating beyond currently produced types of output. We end with a discussion of the limits of automation, both near-term limitations and a more fundamental question related to allowing AI to automatically prescribe risk management decisions. We conclude that there are opportunities for using AI for risk analysis to a greater extent than is commonly the case today; however, critical concerns about proper uncertainty representation and the need for risk-informed rather than risk-based decision-making also lead us to conclude that risk analysis and decision-making processes cannot be fully automated.
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- Kaia Stødle
- Department of Safety, Economics and Planning, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
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- Department of Safety, Economics and Planning, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Department of Industrial & Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Safety, Economics and Planning, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
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Obringer R, Nateghi R, Knee J, Madani K, Kumar R. Urban water and electricity demand data for understanding climate change impacts on the water-energy nexus. Sci Data 2024; 11:108. [PMID: 38263163 PMCID: PMC10806066 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-024-02930-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2023] [Accepted: 01/08/2024] [Indexed: 01/25/2024] Open
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As the climate crisis intensifies, it is becoming increasingly important to conduct research aimed at fully understanding the climate change impacts on various infrastructure systems. In particular, the water-electricity demand nexus is a growing area of focus. However, research on the water-electricity demand nexus requires the use of demand data, which can be difficult to obtain, especially across large spatial extents. Here, we present a dataset containing over a decade (2007-2018) of monthly water and electricity consumption data for 46 major US cities (2018 population >250,000). Additionally, we include pre-processed climate data from the North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR) to supplement studies on the relationship between the water-electricity demand nexus and the local climate. This data can be used for a number of studies that require water and/or electricity demand data across long time frames and large spatial extents. The data can also be used to evaluate the possible impacts of climate change on the water-electricity demand nexus by leveraging the relationship between the observed values.
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- Renee Obringer
- Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA.
- United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), Hamilton, ON, L8P 0A1, Canada.
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- School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), Hamilton, ON, L8P 0A1, Canada
- CUNY Remote Sensing Earth Systems (CUNY-CREST) Institute, City College of New York, New York, NY, 10031, USA
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- Department of Computational Hydrosystems, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, 04318, Germany.
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Yin Z, Fang C, Yang H, Fang Y, Xie M. Improving the resilience of power grids against typhoons with data-driven spatial distributionally robust optimization. RISK ANALYSIS : AN OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE SOCIETY FOR RISK ANALYSIS 2023; 43:979-993. [PMID: 35802008 DOI: 10.1111/risa.13995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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In recent years, the increased frequency of natural hazards has led to more disruptions in power grids, potentially causing severe infrastructural damages and cascading failures. Therefore, it is important that the power system resilience be improved by implementing new technology and utilizing optimization methods. This paper proposes a data-driven spatial distributionally robust optimization (DS-DRO) model to provide an optimal plan to install and dispatch distributed energy resources (DERs) against the uncertain impact of natural hazards such as typhoons. We adopt an accurate spatial model to evaluate the failure probability with regard to system components based on wind speed. We construct a moment-based ambiguity set of the failure distribution based on historical typhoon data. A two-stage DS-DRO model is then formulated to obtain an optimal resilience enhancement strategy. We employ the combination of dual reformulation and a column-and-constraints generation algorithm, and showcase the effectiveness of the proposed approach with a modified IEEE 13-node reliability test system projected in the Hong Kong region.
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- Zhaoyuan Yin
- Department of Advanced Design and Systems Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- School of Management, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, ShaanXi, China
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- School of Data Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
- Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- Laboratoire Génie Industriel, CentraleSupélec, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Department of Advanced Design and Systems Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
- School of Data Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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Stødle K, Flage R, Guikema SD, Aven T. Data-driven predictive modeling in risk assessment: Challenges and directions for proper uncertainty representation. RISK ANALYSIS : AN OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE SOCIETY FOR RISK ANALYSIS 2023. [PMID: 36958984 DOI: 10.1111/risa.14128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2022] [Revised: 10/10/2022] [Accepted: 02/10/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Data-driven predictive modeling is increasingly being used in risk assessments. While such modeling may provide improved consequence predictions and probability estimates, it also comes with challenges. One is that the modeling and its output does not measure and represent uncertainty due to lack of knowledge, that is, "epistemic uncertainty." In this article, we demonstrate this point by conceptually linking the main elements and output of data-driven predictive models with the main elements of a general risk description, thereby placing data-driven predictive modeling on a risk science foundation. This allows for an evaluation of such modeling with reference to risk science recommendations for what constitutes a complete risk description. The evaluation leads us to conclude that, as a minimum, to cover all elements of a complete risk description a risk assessment using data-driven predictive modeling needs to be supported by assessments of the uncertainty and risk related to the assumptions underlying the modeling. In response to this need, we discuss an approach for assessing assumptions in data-driven predictive modeling.
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- Kaia Stødle
- Department of Safety, Economics and Planning, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
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- Department of Safety, Economics and Planning, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
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- Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Safety, Economics and Planning, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
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Hiruta Y, Gao L, Ashina S. A novel method for acquiring rigorous temperature response functions for electricity demand at a regional scale. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 819:152893. [PMID: 34995597 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152893] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2021] [Revised: 10/17/2021] [Accepted: 12/30/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The demand for electricity affects the future climate through its effect on greenhouse gas emissions in the electricity generation process, but climate change also impacts electricity demand by changing the need for heating and cooling. Developing reliable temperature response functions (TRFs) that illustrate electricity demand as a function of temperature is key for decreasing uncertainty in future climate projections under a changing climate and for impact assessments of climate change on energy systems. However, this task is challenging because electricity demand is determined by multiple factors that interact in complicated ways because demand fluctuations represent timely human responses to given meteorological conditions. We propose a novel method to acquire reliable TRFs at a regional scale based on comprehensive modeling of electricity demand fluctuations. Six candidate algorithms were examined, and multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS) was selected as the best algorithm with the dataset used. Using MARS, we constructed models with the capacity to precisely reproduce complex electricity demand patterns based on multiple predictors and simulated the impact of temperature on electricity demand while controlling for the effects of other factors. The temporal segments in TRFs are detected and parameters and functional forms of TRFs for 10 regions in Japan were presented.
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- Yuki Hiruta
- Social Systems Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies, 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan.
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- Social Systems Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies, 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan.
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- Social Systems Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies, 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan.
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Pavićević M, Popović T. Forecasting Day-Ahead Electricity Metrics with Artificial Neural Networks. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 22:1051. [PMID: 35161797 PMCID: PMC8839566 DOI: 10.3390/s22031051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2021] [Revised: 01/17/2022] [Accepted: 01/18/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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As artificial neural network architectures grow increasingly more efficient in time-series prediction tasks, their use for day-ahead electricity price and demand prediction, a task with very specific rules and highly volatile dataset values, grows more attractive. Without a standardized way to compare the efficiency of algorithms and methods for forecasting electricity metrics, it is hard to have a good sense of the strengths and weaknesses of each approach. In this paper, we create models in several neural network architectures for predicting the electricity price on the HUPX market and electricity load in Montenegro and compare them to multiple neural network models on the same basis (using the same dataset and metrics). The results show the promising efficiency of neural networks in general for the task of short-term prediction in the field, with methods combining fully connected layers and recurrent neural or temporal convolutional layers performing the best. The feature extraction power of convolutional layers shows very promising results and recommends the further exploration of temporal convolutional networks in the field.
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- Milutin Pavićević
- Faculty of Information Systems and Technologies, University of Donja Gorica, 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro;
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Overemphasis on recovery inhibits community transformation and creates resilience traps. Nat Commun 2021; 12:7331. [PMID: 34921147 PMCID: PMC8683504 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-27359-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2021] [Accepted: 11/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Building community resilience in the face of climate disasters is critical to achieving a sustainable future. Operational approaches to resilience favor systems’ agile return to the status quo following a disruption. Here, we show that an overemphasis on recovery without accounting for transformation entrenches ‘resilience traps’–risk factors within a community that are predictive of recovery, but inhibit transformation. By quantifying resilience including both recovery and transformation, we identify risk factors which catalyze or inhibit transformation in a case study of community resilience in Florida during Hurricane Michael in 2018. We find that risk factors such as housing tenure, income inequality, and internet access have the capability to trigger transformation. Additionally, we find that 55% of key predictors of recovery are potential resilience traps, including factors related to poverty, ethnicity and mobility. Finally, we discuss maladaptation which could occur as a result of disaster policies which emphasize resilience traps. Building community resilience in the face of climate disasters is critical to achieving a sustainable future. Here, using the case study of community resilience during Hurricane Michael in 2018, the authors show that an overemphasis on recovery entrench ‘resilience traps’.
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Fontecha JE, Agarwal P, Torres MN, Mukherjee S, Walteros JL, Rodríguez JP. A Two-Stage Data-Driven Spatiotemporal Analysis to Predict Failure Risk of Urban Sewer Systems Leveraging Machine Learning Algorithms. RISK ANALYSIS : AN OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE SOCIETY FOR RISK ANALYSIS 2021; 41:2356-2391. [PMID: 34056745 DOI: 10.1111/risa.13742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Risk-informed asset management is key to maintaining optimal performance and efficiency of urban sewer systems. Although sewer system failures are spatiotemporal in nature, previous studies analyzed failure risk from a unidimensional aspect (either spatial or temporal), not accounting for bidimensional spatiotemporal complexities. This is owing to the insufficiency of good-quality data, which ultimately leads to under-/overestimation of failure risk. Here, we propose a generalized methodology/framework to facilitate a robust spatiotemporal analysis of urban sewer system failure risk, overcoming the intrinsic challenges of data imperfections-e.g., missing data, outliers, and imbalanced information. The framework includes a two-stage data-driven modeling technique that efficiently models the highly right-skewed sewer system failure data to predict the failure risk, leveraging a bidimensional space-time approach. We implemented our analysis for Bogotá, the capital city of Colombia. We train, test, and validate a battery of machine learning algorithms-logistic regression, decision trees, random forests, and XGBoost-and select the best model in terms of goodness-of-fit and predictive accuracy. Finally, we illustrate the applicability of the framework in planning/scheduling sewer system maintenance operations using state-of-the-art optimization techniques. Our proposed framework can help stakeholders to analyze the failure-risk models' performance under different discrimination thresholds, and provide managerial insights on the model's adequate spatial resolution and appropriateness of decentralized management for sewer system maintenance.
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- John E Fontecha
- Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Department of Structural, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
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Nateghi R, Aven T. Risk Analysis in the Age of Big Data: The Promises and Pitfalls. RISK ANALYSIS : AN OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE SOCIETY FOR RISK ANALYSIS 2021; 41:1751-1758. [PMID: 33448087 DOI: 10.1111/risa.13682] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2020] [Revised: 12/02/2020] [Accepted: 12/26/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Despite its rising popularity, the novelty and merits of big data risk analysis are still debated. This perspective article contributes to the debate by clarifying what constitutes big data in the context of risk analysis and proposing that the discussions of big data attributes (i.e., scale, speed, and structure) and big data methods should go hand in hand. Simple examples are used to illustrate the differences between big data risk analysis and traditional approaches. Finally, a distinction is made between the conceptual definition of risk and how risk is measured to clarify the contributions of big data to risk assessment, and to highlight the importance of explicitly accounting for strength of knowledge in conducting big data risk analysis.
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- Roshanak Nateghi
- School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, 315 N. Grant Street, West Lafayette, IN, 47907-2023, USA
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- Center for Risk Management and Societal Safety, Department of Safety, Economics and Planning, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
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Mukherjee S, Frimpong Boamah E, Ganguly P, Botchwey N. A multilevel scenario based predictive analytics framework to model the community mental health and built environment nexus. Sci Rep 2021; 11:17548. [PMID: 34475452 PMCID: PMC8413383 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-96801-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2021] [Accepted: 07/30/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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The built environment affects mental health outcomes, but this relationship is less studied and understood. This article proposes a novel multi-level scenario-based predictive analytics framework (MSPAF) to explore the complex relationships between community mental health outcomes and the built environment conditions. The MSPAF combines rigorously validated interpretable machine learning algorithms and scenario-based sensitivity analysis to test various hypotheses on how the built environment impacts community mental health outcomes across the largest metropolitan areas in the US. Among other findings, our results suggest that declining socio-economic conditions of the built environment (e.g., poverty, low income, unemployment, decreased access to public health insurance) are significantly associated with increased reported mental health disorders. Similarly, physical conditions of the built environment (e.g., increased housing vacancies and increased travel costs) are significantly associated with increased reported mental health disorders. However, this positive relationship between the physical conditions of the built environment and mental health outcomes does not hold across all the metropolitan areas, suggesting a mixed effect of the built environment's physical conditions on community mental health. We conclude by highlighting future opportunities of incorporating other variables and datasets into the MSPAF framework to test additional hypotheses on how the built environment impacts community mental health.
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- Sayanti Mukherjee
- Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University at Buffalo - The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, 14260, USA.
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- Department of Urban and Regional Planning, School of Architecture and Planning, University at Buffalo - The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, 14214, USA
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- Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University at Buffalo - The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, 14260, USA
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- School of City & Regional Planning, College of Design, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA
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Ge YG, Zobel CW, Murray-Tuite P, Nateghi R, Wang H. Building an Interdisciplinary Team for Disaster Response Research: A Data-Driven Approach. RISK ANALYSIS : AN OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE SOCIETY FOR RISK ANALYSIS 2021; 41:1145-1151. [PMID: 30726556 DOI: 10.1111/risa.13280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2017] [Revised: 12/31/2018] [Accepted: 01/02/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Building an interdisciplinary team is critical to disaster response research as it often deals with acute onset events, short decision horizons, constrained resources, and uncertainties related to rapidly unfolding response environments. This article examines three teaming mechanisms for interdisciplinary disaster response research, including ad hoc and/or grant proposal driven teams, research center or institute based teams, and teams oriented by matching expertise toward long-term collaborations. Using hurricanes as the response context, it further examines several types of critical data that require interdisciplinary collaboration on collection, integration, and analysis. Last, suggesting a data-driven approach to engaging multiple disciplines, the article advocates building interdisciplinary teams for disaster response research with a long-term goal and an integrated research protocol.
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- Yue Gurt Ge
- School of Public Administration, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
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- Department of Business Information Technology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA
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- School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
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Greenberg M, Cox A, Bier V, Lambert J, Lowrie K, North W, Siegrist M, Wu F. Risk Analysis: Celebrating the Accomplishments and Embracing Ongoing Challenges. RISK ANALYSIS : AN OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE SOCIETY FOR RISK ANALYSIS 2020; 40:2113-2127. [PMID: 32579763 DOI: 10.1111/risa.13487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2020] [Accepted: 03/26/2020] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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As part of the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Society for Risk Analysis and Risk Analysis: An International Journal, this essay reviews the 10 most important accomplishments of risk analysis from 1980 to 2010, outlines major accomplishments in three major categories from 2011 to 2019, discusses how editors circulate authors' accomplishments, and proposes 10 major risk-related challenges for 2020-2030. Authors conclude that the next decade will severely test the field of risk analysis.
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- Michael Greenberg
- Edward J. Bloustein School, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
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- University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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- Edward J. Bloustein School, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
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- Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
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Kumar R, Rachunok B, Maia-Silva D, Nateghi R. Asymmetrical response of California electricity demand to summer-time temperature variation. Sci Rep 2020; 10:10904. [PMID: 32616812 PMCID: PMC7331730 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-67695-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2019] [Accepted: 06/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Current projections of the climate-sensitive portion of residential electricity demand are based on estimating the temperature response of the mean of the demand distribution. In this work, we show that there is significant asymmetry in the summer-time temperature response of electricity demand in the state of California, with high-intensity demand demonstrating a greater sensitivity to temperature increases. The greater climate sensitivity of high-intensity demand is found not only in the observed data, but also in the projections in the near future (2021–2040) and far future periods (2081–2099), and across all (three) utility service regions in California. We illustrate that disregarding the asymmetrical climate sensitivity of demand can lead to underestimating high-intensity demand in a given period by 37–43%. Moreover, the discrepancy in the projected increase in the climate-sensitive portion of demand based on the 50th versus 90\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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- Rohini Kumar
- UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany.
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- School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
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- Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
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- School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA. .,Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA.
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Maia-Silva D, Kumar R, Nateghi R. The critical role of humidity in modeling summer electricity demand across the United States. Nat Commun 2020; 11:1686. [PMID: 32245945 PMCID: PMC7125155 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15393-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2019] [Accepted: 03/04/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Cooling demand is projected to increase under climate change. However, most of the existing projections are based on rising air temperatures alone, ignoring that rising temperatures are associated with increased humidity; a lethal combination that could significantly increase morbidity and mortality rates during extreme heat events. We bridge this gap by identifying the key measures of heat stress, considering both air temperature and near-surface humidity, in characterizing the climate sensitivity of electricity demand at a national scale. Here we show that in many of the high energy consuming states, such as California and Texas, projections based on air temperature alone underestimates cooling demand by as much as 10-15% under both present and future climate scenarios. Our results establish that air temperature is a necessary but not sufficient variable for adequately characterizing the climate sensitivity of cooling load, and that near-surface humidity plays an equally important role.
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- Debora Maia-Silva
- Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47906, USA.
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- Department Computational Hydrosystems, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, 04318, Germany.
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- Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47906, USA
- School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47906, USA
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Nateghi R, Mukherjee S. A multi-paradigm framework to assess the impacts of climate change on end-use energy demand. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0188033. [PMID: 29155862 PMCID: PMC5695769 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0188033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2017] [Accepted: 10/29/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Projecting the long-term trends in energy demand is an increasingly complex endeavor due to the uncertain emerging changes in factors such as climate and policy. The existing energy-economy paradigms used to characterize the long-term trends in the energy sector do not adequately account for climate variability and change. In this paper, we propose a multi-paradigm framework for estimating the climate sensitivity of end-use energy demand that can easily be integrated with the existing energy-economy models. To illustrate the applicability of our proposed framework, we used the energy demand and climate data in the state of Indiana to train a Bayesian predictive model. We then leveraged the end-use demand trends as well as downscaled future climate scenarios to generate probabilistic estimates of the future end-use demand for space cooling, space heating and water heating, at the individual household and building level, in the residential and commercial sectors. Our results indicated that the residential load is much more sensitive to climate variability and change than the commercial load. Moreover, since the largest fraction of the residential energy demand in Indiana is attributed to heating, future warming scenarios could lead to reduced end-use demand due to lower space heating and water heating needs. In the commercial sector, the overall energy demand is expected to increase under the future warming scenarios. This is because the increased cooling load during hotter summer months will likely outpace the reduced heating load during the more temperate winter months.
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- Roshanak Nateghi
- School of Industrial Engineering and Division of Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States of America
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- Lyles School of Civil Engineering and School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States of America
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