Adapting Infrastructure To Climate Change: Advancing Decision-making Under Conditions Of Uncertainty (routledge Advances In Climate Change Research)
by Todd Schenk /
2017 / English / PDF
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Many of the challenges that decision-makers grapple with in
relation to climate change are governance related. Planning and
decision-making is evolving in ambiguous institutional
environments, in which many key issues remain unresolved,
including relationships between different actors; funding
arrangements; and the sources and procedures for vetting data.
These issues are particularly acute at this juncture, as climate
adaptation moves from broad planning processes to the management
of infrastructure systems. Concrete decisions must be made.
Many of the challenges that decision-makers grapple with in
relation to climate change are governance related. Planning and
decision-making is evolving in ambiguous institutional
environments, in which many key issues remain unresolved,
including relationships between different actors; funding
arrangements; and the sources and procedures for vetting data.
These issues are particularly acute at this juncture, as climate
adaptation moves from broad planning processes to the management
of infrastructure systems. Concrete decisions must be made.Adapting Infrastructure to Climate Change
Adapting Infrastructure to Climate Change draws on case
studies of three coastal cities situated within very different
governance regimes: neo-corporatist Rotterdam, neo-pluralist
Boston and semi-authoritarian Singapore. The book examines how
infrastructure managers and other stakeholders grappling with
complex and uncertain climate risks are likely to make
project-level decisions in practice, and how more effective
decision-making can be supported. The differences across
governance regimes are currently unaccounted for in adaptation
planning, but are crucial as best practices are devised. These
lessons are also applicable to infrastructure planning and
decision-making in other contexts.
draws on case
studies of three coastal cities situated within very different
governance regimes: neo-corporatist Rotterdam, neo-pluralist
Boston and semi-authoritarian Singapore. The book examines how
infrastructure managers and other stakeholders grappling with
complex and uncertain climate risks are likely to make
project-level decisions in practice, and how more effective
decision-making can be supported. The differences across
governance regimes are currently unaccounted for in adaptation
planning, but are crucial as best practices are devised. These
lessons are also applicable to infrastructure planning and
decision-making in other contexts.
This book will be of great interest to scholars of climate change
and environmental policy and governance, particularly in the
context of infrastructure management.
This book will be of great interest to scholars of climate change
and environmental policy and governance, particularly in the
context of infrastructure management.