PA044
Ready for Tomorrow: Strategies for Climate-Resilient Infrastructure
Ready for Tomorrow: Strategies for Climate-Resilient Infrastructure
Session ID#: 81913
Session Description:
As climate change impacts emerge ever more forcefully around the globe, decision makers are asking, with increasing urgency, how they can make their communities and businesses more resilient. One obvious place to start is infrastructure. Seven principles for climate-resilient infrastructure were recently articulated by a broad array of authors1, with the objective of helping to ensure that infrastructure is able to continue to deliver its intended services in the coming decades. These principles, which will be addressed in a series of presentations, are: (1) Make better decisions in the face of uncertainty; (2) View infrastructure systemically; (3) Take an iterative, multi-hazard approach; (4) Improve and inform cost-benefit analysis; (5) Mainstream nature-based infrastructure; (6) Jump-start resilience with immediate actions; and (7) Plan now to build back better. The presentations and discussions will address multiple dimensions of these principles, from the perspectives of physical and social science, engineering, policy, finance, and education.
Index Terms:
6304 Benefit-cost analysis [POLICY SCIENCES]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]
6339 System design [POLICY SCIENCES]
6620 Science policy [PUBLIC ISSUES]
Primary Convener: Peter A Schultz, ICF, District of Columbia, DC, United States
Conveners: Doug Mason, MCC, Washington, United States and Alice Hill, Independent, Washington, United States
Primary Liaison: Peter A Schultz, ICF, District of Columbia, DC, United States
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