Selected Reports and Studies
National Heat Impact on K-12 Schools
Resilient Analytics conducted an analysis of future air conditioning requirements due to climate change in 93,000 K-12 schools across the United States
Hillsborough MPO Adaptation Study
Resilient Analytics developed a resiliency toolkit to address multiple transportation threats across coastal and inland roadways.
Canadian Infrastructure Impact Study
Project specialists for cost impacts on a national level for roads, rail, and bridges in Canada. Modelled impacts of climate change on road types in cold weather as well as impacts on airports and other infrastructure.
Study of Climate Impact on Water Utilities
Resilient Analytics conducted an analysis of temperature impacts to water utilities in five cities including worker impact and physical infrastructure impact. Focused on operational, design, and capital investment options.
National Study on Protection from Sea Level Rise and Flooding
Resilient Analytics, working with the Center for Climate Integrity, has opened a new chapter on climate change discussions by completing the first national assessment of the minimum costs required to protect the United States coastline from Sea Level Rise and recurring storm surge. A $400 billion price tag faces the US by 2040.
Boulder County and City of Boulder Resilience Study
Resilient Analytics conducted a multi-sector analysis of threats from climate change to Boulder County and the City of Boulder including, public health, wildfire, drought, infrastructure, and energy.
US EPA CIRA Infrastructure Study
Resilient Analytics developed the national estimates for vulnerability and adaptation for the State of Alaska, the national rail system, the national bridge inventory, and the national road network in the EPA CIRA report.
World Bank Africa Roads Analysis
Resilient Analytics analyzed the potential impact of climate change to the African road network including existing roads and future World Bank investments.
Selected Published Papers
Hayles, C.; Huddleston, M.; Chinowsky, P.; Helman, J. Quantifying the Effects of Projected Climate Change on the Durability and Service Life of Housing in Wales, UK. Buildings 2022, 12, 184. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12020184
Fant, C., Jacobs, J. M., Chinowsky, P., Sweet, W., Weiss, N., Sias, J. E., ... & Neumann, J. E. (2021). Mere nuisance or growing threat? The physical and economic impact of high tide flooding on US road networks. Journal of Infrastructure Systems, 27(4), 04021044. https://ascelibrary.org/doi/full/10.1061/%28ASCE%29IS.1943-555X.0000652
Chinowsky, Paul, and Jacob Helman. 2021. "Protecting Infrastructure and Public Buildings against Sea Level Rise and Storm Surge" Sustainability 13, no. 19: 10538. https://doi.org/10.3390/su131910538
Neumann, J.E., Chinowsky, P., Helman, J. et al. Climate effects on US infrastructure: the economics of adaptation for rail, roads, and coastal development. Climatic Change 167, 44 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-021-03179-w
Arndt, Channing, Paul Chinowsky, Charles Fant, Sergey Paltsev, C. Adam Schlosser, Kenneth Strzepek, Finn Tarp, and James Thurlow. "Climate change and developing country growth: the cases of Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia." Climatic Change (2019): 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-019-02428-3
Schweikert, Amy, Xavier Espinet, and Paul Chinowsky. "The triple bottom line: bringing a sustainability framework to prioritize climate change investments for infrastructure planning." Sustainability Science 13, no. 2 (2018): 377-391. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-017-0431-7
Schmidt, Emily, Paul Chinowsky, Sherman Robinson, and Kenneth Strzepek. "Determinants and impact of sustainable land management (SLM) investments: A systems evaluation in the Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia." Agricultural economics 48, no. 5 (2017): 613-627.
Chinowsky, Paul, Jacob Helman, Sahil Gulati, James Neumann, and Jeremy Martinich. "Impacts of climate change on operation of the US rail network." Transport Policy (2017). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2017.05.007
Melvin, April M., Peter Larsen, Brent Boehlert, James E. Neumann, Paul Chinowsky, Xavier Espinet, Jeremy Martinich et al. "Climate change damages to Alaska public infrastructure and the economics of proactive adaptation." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114, no. 2 (2017): E122-E131. DOI:10.1073/pnas.1611056113
Kwiatkowski, Kyle P. & Chinowsky, Paul S., 2017. "Climate change adaptation as an organizational system in transportation infrastructure organizations: Identifying processes and institutional elements," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 60(C), pages 47-53. DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2017.08.006
Hayles, C. S., Huddleston, M., Chinowsky, P., & Helman, J. (2022). Summertime impacts of climate change on dwellings in Wales, UK. Building and Environment, 219, 109185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2022.109185
Selected Published Papers (continued)
Espinet, Xavier, Amy Schweikert, Nicola van den Heever, and Paul Chinowsky. "Planning resilient roads for the future environment and climate change: Quantifying the vulnerability of the primary transport infrastructure system in Mexico." Transport Policy 50 (2016): 78-86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2016.06.003
Paul Chinowsky, Amy Schweikert, Gordon Hughes, Carolyn S. Hayles, Niko Strzepek, Kenneth Strzepek, Michael Westphal, (2015) "The impact of climate change on road and building infrastructure: a four-country study", International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment, Vol. 6 Issue: 4, pp.382-396, https://doi.org/10.1108/IJDRBE-07-2013-0026
Arndt, Channing, Paul Chinowsky, Charles Fant, Yohannes Gebretsadik, James E. Neumann, Sergey Paltsev, and J. Thurlow. "Climate change and developing country interests." United Nations University–World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNWIDER). Retrieved January 27 (2015): 2016.
Twerefou, Daniel, Paul Chinowsky, Kwame Adjei-Mantey, and Niko Strzepek. "The economic impact of climate change on road infrastructure in Ghana." Sustainability 7, no. 9 (2015): 11949-11966. https://doi.org/10.3390/su70911949
Neumann, James E., Jason Price, Paul Chinowsky, Leonard Wright, Lindsay Ludwig, Richard Streeter, Russell Jones et al. "Climate change risks to US infrastructure: impacts on roads, bridges, coastal development, and urban drainage." Climatic Change 131, no. 1 (2015): 97-109.
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Schweikert, Amy, Paul Chinowsky, Kyle Kwiatkowski, and Xavier Espinet. "The infrastructure planning support system: Analyzing the impact of climate change on road infrastructure and development." Transport Policy 35 (2014): 146-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2014.05.019