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18 Hous. J. Health L. & Pol'y 77 (2018)
Microgrids and Resilience to Climate-Driven Impacts on Public Health

handle is hein.journals/hhpol18 and id is 91 raw text is: 18 Hous. J. Health L. & Pol'y 77 Copyright 0 2018 Justin Gundlach Houston Journal of Health Law & Policy MICROGRIDS AND RESILIENCE TO CLIMATE- DRIVEN IMPACTS ON PUBLIC HEALTH Justin Gundlach' ABSTRACT Resilience has burst into the lexicons of several policy areas in recent years, owing in no small part to climate change's amplification of extreme events that severely disrupt the operation of natural, social, and engineered systems. Fostering resilience means anticipating severe disruptions as well as planning, investing, and designing so that such disruptions, which are certain to occur, are made shallower in depth and shorter in duration. Thus, a resilient system or community can continue functioning despite disruptive events, return more swiftly to routine function following disruption, and incorporate new information so as to improve operations in extremis and speed future restorations. As different policy communities apply the concept of resilience to their respective missions, they emphasize different objectives. This Article examines how the definitions adopted by the public health and electricity communities could, but will not necessarily, converge in instances of so electricity outages so severe that they affect the operation of critical infrastructure, such as wastewater treatment and drinking water facilities, hospitals, and cooling centers. Currently, such outages cause a form of handoff from utilities to their customers: grid power fails, and a small constellation of backup generators maintained independently by individual campuses, facilities, or 'Associate Research Scholar at Columbia Law School and Staff Attorney at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law.

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