Abstracts
Identifying Economically Viable Climate Adaptation Options for Infrastructure Systems
Harvey Hill1, Koko Warner
1Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
hillh@agr.gc.ca
Decision and policy makers face a challenge to effectively adapt to climate related variability and change. Current approaches are relatively sophisticated for understanding the implications of extreme events and long term climate variability on individual pieces of infrastructure but are not as mature regarding an infrastructure system or system of systems. The presentation describes a methodology for identifying the options available to policy and decision makers for adapting and enhancing the resiliency of climate sensitive infrastructure systems. This approach is innovative because it illustrates how to integrate the uncertain nature of climate information effectively into economic analysis in a spatially and temporally coherent manner. Secondly it is innovative because it does so in a manner that allows a decision maker to understand the implications of extreme events and seasonal variability on long term economic growth, environmental sustainability, and public safety.
2005-04-05 |
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