Addressing Water Management Challenges through Decision Scaling and Adaptation Pathways

This webinar took place on 29 October 2020. It is the third in a series of webinars on climate-resilient water management approaches. More information at https://agwaguide.org/training/webinar-series-climate-resilient-water-management-approaches/.

This webinar introduced participants to two bottom-up approaches: Decision Scaling and Adaptation Pathways. Presenters focused on the processes' history, relevance and practical applications. To highlight their role in addressing water management challenges, presenters shared real-life examples of case studies that were done 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 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.

Q&As featured questions from the audience in order to facilitate an open discussion and provide for an interactive webinar.