The Resilience Approach to Climate Adaptation Applied for Flood Risk: Unesco-Ihe PhD Thesis

ISBN-13: 9780415624855 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 170 str.

Berry Gersonius

Opis

The uncertainties associated with the process of making decisions for water infrastructure investments can be significant. This book provides practical experience with two different assessment methods, examining the procedures, benefits and limitations of both methods.

Spis treści

1 Introduction and Overview; 2 Definition and assessment of resilience for socio-technical systems; 3 Adaptive Policy Making; 4 Real In Options; 5 Comparing Real In Options and Net Present Value; 6 Adaptation Tipping Point - Adaptation Mainstreaming Opportunity; 7 Comparing Real In Options and Adaptation Tipping Points; 8 Conclusions and recommendations; 9 Bibliography

O autorze

Berry Gersonius (MSc in Civil Engineering, specialisation in Water Infrastructure Planning) is lecturer in Urban Flood Resilience at UNESCO-IHE. The scope of his work covers education and research in the field of climate change adaptation and urban flood (risk) management. In 2008, he started a PhD study, entitled ‘Beyond a stationary hydrology: the resilience approach to the adaptation of flooding systems to climate change’. His main research interest is the operationalisation of resilience in context of urban flood (risk) management and climate change adaptation. He has been involved with a number of (practical) research projects, including Water Robust Building, Urban Flood Management, and the project Integrated Urban Water System Interactions that is part of UNESCO - IHP VI. Currently he is involved in the European Interreg IVB project MARE and FP7 project FloodProbe.