Hindawi Complexity Volume 2018, Article ID 3074791, 16 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/3074791 Research Article Integrating “Hard” and “Soft” Infrastructural Resilience Assessment for Water Distribution Systems Alessandro Pagano ,1 Irene Pluchinotta,2 Raffaele Giordano,1 and Umberto Fratino3 1Water Research Institute-National Research Council (IRSA-CNR), viale F. de Blasio 5, 70132 Bari, Italy 2LAMSADE-CNRS, Paris Dauphine University, PSL University, Place du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny, 75016 Paris, France 3DICATECh, Politecnico di Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, Italy Correspondence should be addressed to Alessandro Pagano;
[email protected] Received 25 October 2017; Revised 23 April 2018; Accepted 12 May 2018; Published 14 June 2018 Academic Editor: Anand Nair Copyright © 2018 Alessandro Pagano et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Cities are highly dynamic systems, whose resilience is affected by the interconnectedness between “hard” and “soft” infrastructures. “Hard infrastructures” are the functional networks with physical elements providing goods or services. “Soft infrastructures” (culture, governance, and social patterns) encompass the social networks, make the hard infrastructures work, and are vital for understanding the consequences of disasters and the effectiveness of emergency management. Although the dynamic interactions between such infrastructures are highly complex in the case of the occurrence of hazardous events, it is fundamental to analyze them. The reliability of hard infrastructures during emergency management contributes to keep alive the social capital, while the community, its networks, and its own resilience influence the service provided by infrastructural systems.