Risk-informed Urban Infrastructure Planning: Applying Climate and Disaster Risk Information

Event: Business Unusual for Resilient Urban Infrastructure

Risk-informed Urban Infrastructure Planning: Applying Climate and Disaster Risk Information

25 February 2021
Author / Speaker: 
Alexander David Nash, ADB - Other materials by the author

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Alex Nash spoke on risk-informed planning and noted that such approaches are more about process than destination. That is, a good plan is one that adapts to new information and is “resilient” to the information being imperfect--important in the context of climate uncertainty and the multi-dimensional nature of associated risks that need to be tackled.

Geographical Focus: 
Global
Type of Content: 
Learning Event

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