Adaptive Planning for Infrastructure and Water Management

Overview

If you are involved in long-term planning, you will find many opportunities to apply these methods in a professional setting. They are most useful for engineers or professionals who have developed a systems-thinking approach to solving complex problems.

We recommend this course to professionals with experience with long-term planning or policy-making for development and life cycle management of large scale infrastructures. This course expects good levels of ability in conceptual thinking but does not call for the use of computational skills

Outcomes

• articulate and defend choices in long-term planning or decision-making under uncertainty
• use a structured method to develop scenarios for plausible but uncertain futures
• identify indicators and actors for the monitoring and evaluation of an adaptation pathway
• design an adaptation pathway and evaluate its performance in a serious game
• make recommendations on how to deal with the strengths and weaknesses of adaptation pathways during their implementation