Recalibrating approaches towards urban resilience investments: System thinking and prioritization methods for decision making
Organizer: The World Bank
| The objective of this session is to introduce and debate a set of existing and emerging methodologies to prioritize resilient infrastructure investments (e.g., betweenness centrality/connectivity analysis, accessibility indexes, criticality analysis, community-based participation, etc.) that can be used in low-income climate vulnerable countries. These approaches will be placed against the backdrop of the process and technologies used at different stages of their development (e.g., data collection using GIS-based information, remote sensing and machine learning, analysis and planning with asset management tools and open decision platforms, etc.). During this live presentation and discussion, we hope to: 1) Share some of the system of systems’ paradigm and underlying innovative technique developed for the prioritization of resilient infrastructure investments; 2) Understand attendees’ preferences in terms of the methods that can be deployed for the prioritization of resilient infrastructure investments – this can be related to pragmatic concerns against the backdrop of data scarcity or the complexity of the method itself to more subjective preference. We are interested in understanding what methods and what trajectories are worth exploring more based on attendee’s judgment; and 3) Learn from the attendees as they will also introduce methods based on their experience and from their sectors. In so doing, we are also looking forward to understanding how prioritization methods can be used interchangeably by sectors, and towards the shared goal of improving urban resilience. The session also aims to be contextually diverse and will use several country case studies distributed globally. This community session is open to all – particularly to engineers, researchers, managers and decision makers that deal with urban resiliency. While some of the methods introduced during the side events will come from the transport sector, the goal of the session is to provide an opportunity for a broad spectrum of participants to exchange ideas and share practical experiences across various sectors such as transport, water, energy, etc. regarding the prioritization methods for resilient infrastructure investments. |
Speakers:
Mohammad Saied Dehghani, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Management Consultant
Emanuele Strano, Urban Scientist & Researcher