Addressing Water Management Challenges through Decision Scaling and Adaptation Pathways
Thursday, 29 October 2020
15:30–17:00 CET / 13:30-15:00 UTC
You are invited to the third installment of the ongoing webinar series “Climate-Resilient Water Management Approaches: Adaptation in an Age of Uncertainty,” co-organized by UNESCO, AGWA, and ICIWaRM.
During the webinar, participants will be introduced to two bottom-up approaches: Decision Scaling and Adaptation Pathways. Presenters will touch on the processes’ history, relevance, and practical applications. To highlight their role in addressing water management challenges, presenters will share real-life examples of case studies that were performed using the two approaches.
The decision scaling approach was developed in order to assess the significance of climate risks and identifying system vulnerabilities in water resource projects. This robustness-based bottom-up approach serves as a decision support tool to assist project planning under uncertainty.
With an emphasis on flexibility as a means to achieve project objectives, the Adaptation Pathways approach allows users to plan a sequence of investments or policy actions over time while taking uncertainty and changing conditions into account. The output is an adaptation pathways map which provides insight into policy options, the sequencing of actions over time, potential lock-ins, and path dependencies.
Presentations will be given conjointly by local and international project experts. Open discussions will be held with the audience via Q&A.
*The webinar will take place in English. Live French interpretation will be available.
PROGRAM
Event Moderator
Anil Mishra, Programme Specialist, Division of Water Sciences, UNESCO
Opening Remarks
Will Logan, Director, ICIWaRM
Speakers
Casey Brown, Professor of Water Resources Engineering, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Alexis Dufour, Long-Term Vulnerability Project Manager, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
Andrew Warren, Climate Change Adaptation Expert, Deltares
Closing Remarks
Anil Mishra, Programme Specialist, Division of Water Sciences, UNESCO