Design and planning of climate adaptation measures in the built environment

• Quantify wind, temperature and water hazards for locations of interest
• Develop scenario projections for climate hazards based on recent scientific findings
• Examine through which processes climate hazards impact the built environment
• Apply hazard, vulnerability, and exposure assessments to quantify climate risks
• Calculate expected annual damage based on spatial risk assessments
• Design physically feasible climate adaptation measures
• Investigate the cost-efficiency of climate adaptation measures by contrasting adaptation cost and risk reduction
• Evaluate the influence of policy context and institutional framework on the implementation of climate change adaptation measures
• Develop strategies to overcome organisational barriers for climate adaptation, including the identification of actor-networks and the organization of a transition arena

-Identification of weather extremes (rain, sea level, wave height, wind) from data
-Scenario projections for climate extremes
-Spatial assessment of hazards and exposed assets
-Impact of weather extremes on assets
-Economic risk assessment
-Cost benefit analysis for climate adaptation measures
-Planning processes and regulation affecting climate adaptation
-Tools for building capacity to overcome organisational barriers

• 36 – 49 (Tues 8-12)

Basic knowledge of GIS and hydrological processes

A mixture of lectures and group work. The course requires active participation in group work and discussions in class. A central part of the course is unsupervised group work where climate adaptation measures are developed for concrete cases. During this time the groups are expected to help each other towards understanding and solving the problems at hand.