Dr Joost Buurman is an economist with work experience in diverse fields, such as water resources management and modelling, spatial planning and GIS, and systems engineering. In the past years, his thematic focus has been on water and natural resources management. His research interests are flood and drought risk management, climate change adaptation, planning and decision making under uncertainty, cost benefit analysis and spatial dimensions of water.
Presentation Title
Designing Adaptive Systems for Enhancement of Urban Water Resilience
Abstract
Water infrastructure systems are under stress due to rapid urbanisation and climate change, and the design and planning approaches from the past may no longer be sufficient for the future. The challenge is to find practical decision support approaches to develop flexible infrastructure systems, that address the broad spectrum of uncertainties faced by water infrastructure systems, including socio-political uncertainties. We propose that practical approaches can be assembled from a toolbox consisting of different techniques, methodologies and procedures framed by a step-wise approach consisting of the Adaptation Pathways, Adaptive Policymaking and Real Options Analysis approaches.