Building & Maintaining Climate-Resilient Roads
Building & Maintaining Climate-Resilient Roads
Introduction
Action is needed to diagnose systemic weaknesses and adapt transport systems to withstand expected climate impacts such as changes in rainfall, flooding, and sea-level rise as well as extreme weather events. This requires a better understanding of existing vulnerability assessment tools, cost-effective engineering measures and technologies all designed to ensure robustness, redundancy and resilience are designed into road networks. Using real world case studies taken from different fields of engineering, this course will help participants identify promising applications as well as knowledge gaps that can be addressed through information and capacity strengthening programs on one of the defining challenges for 21st century road programs.
TRAINING METHODOLOGY
This training course will combine presentations with instructor-guided interactive discussions between participants relating to their individual workplace. Practical exercises, video material and case studies aiming at stimulating these discussions and providing maximum benefit to the participants will support the training.
This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies as a percentage of the total tuition hours:
- 30% Lectures, Concepts, Role Play
- 30% Workshops & Work Presentations, Techniques
- 20% Based on Case Studies & Practical Exercises
- 20% Videos, Software & General Discussions
- Pre and Post Test
Outline
Climate Change, Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation
Language commonly used by climate change practitioners
Causes of climate change
Climate change impact, vulnerability, and why it exists
Climate change adaptation and the development sector
MODULE 2 Community Based Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience
Language used in CBA sectoral responses
Framing community based climate change adaptation
Community based climate change adaptation in action
Climate change and resilience
MODULE 3 Enabling Environments for Climate Change Adaptation
Climate change and the context of an enabling environment
Climate hazards, livelihoods, and adaptation influence on the enabling environment
A rights-based approach to assessing the enabling environment
MODULE 4 Assessing Climate Change Vulnerability and Capacity; Planning for Adaptation
Scoping tools for hazards and vulnerabilities
Assessing hazards and capacities through a disaster risk reduction lens
Tools and processes to an integrated climate vulnerability and capacity analysis
Participatory climate change adaptation planning
Schedule
- 08:30 – 10:15 First Session
- 10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break
- 10:30 – 12:15 Second Session
- 12:15 – 12:30 Coffee Break
- 12:30 – 14:00 Third Session
- 14:00 – 15:00 Lunch
Fees
The Fee for the seminar, including instruction materials, documentation, lunch, coffee/tea breaks & snack :