A new book from ASCE Press called IRP 8, Infrastructure System Resilience: An Engineering Framework for Assessment, Management, and Governance, breaks the big picture of system resilience into interlinked elements, making application much easier for practitioners.

It's a strong case for incremental progress in the face of complex and complicated problems.

Craig Davis is a founding director of ASCE’s Infrastructure Resilience Division and the book’s lead editor.

In episode 152 of ASCE Plot Points, he explains the eight elements of infrastructure system resilience and how practitioners can begin to employ this framework in their projects.