Resilience, Sustainability and Affordability: The Triple Challenge forInfrastructure
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Climate change is already happening and there is a good understanding in qualitative terms of the impacts it is having and will have on our infrastructure.As a society we expect the services enabled by our infrastructure to be resilient and indeed the infrastructure itself.Engineering responses so far have tended to build resilience by engineering, but this comes at a cost in terms of carbon and cash that increasingly renders new infrastructure and enhancements unaffordable.In other words, there is a danger of focusing on adaptation to the effects of climate change at the expense of mitigation, which is still badly needed if the world is to avoid a climate catastrophe.The presentation will explore this issue in the context of the likely impacts of climate change.It will suggest some steps that could help to achieve the desired resilience in a sustainable and affordable way, and a methodology to balance the sometimes conflicting demands of adaptation for resilience and mitigation towards sustainability.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.023 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.021 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.012 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".