Adapting Your Infrastructure To Climate Change

Municipalities provide citizens with a range of essential services, many relying to varying degrees on built infrastructure. The reliability, function and durability of built infrastructure is increasingly affected by changing climate. Municipalities, and those that provide sevices to them, must become familiar with the resources available to help assess and address climate change implications on infrastructure services within a given region. This course provides a roadmap of available tools and techniques that support vulnerability assessment, risk evaluation and response planning.

Key Topics

• Understand key concepts/principles associated with climate change
• Identify how climate change may impact infrastructure at the local level
• Existing resources available to infrastructure practitioners addressing climate change adaptation challenges
• Application of select resources using practical examples/case studies to address such hazards as flooding, sea-level rise, drought, perma-frost warming/thawing, and wind storms

Intended Audience

• Those reponsible for/involved in impact assessment, risk evaluation and response planning in support of climate change adaptation of infrastructure: Municipal staff, Elected officials and Professional service providers

Time to Course Completion

• Approximately 8 hours to complete all aspects of the course and review all resources.

Registration Includes

• 60 day Online Access
• Resource Kit including industry references on various climate change hazards and working templates for a risk assessment framework