Engineering for Climate Change Adaptation at the US Army Corps of Engineers: Policy, Plans, and Projects

Dalton, James C.; DeLoach, Stephen R.; Arnold, Jeffrey R.; White, Kathleen D.

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“…Engineers are already making major contributions to the development of responses to climate change and a number of engineering organizations and firms have incorporated climate change problems in their strategic planning (e.g., Royal Academy of Engineering, 2011;Dalton et al, 2012). However, there has been little debate as to whether engineering institutions and curricula are well placed to tackle this challenge as fully and productively as needed.…”

Section: Engineering Research On Climate Changementioning

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Risk and social vulnerability: how engineering can engage more effectively with climate change

El-Zein

2014

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Engineering practice, education and research are bound to be important elements in society's response to climate change. While a number of other disciplines such as economics, agriculture, urban planning and geoscience, are critical to the development of mitigation policies, the designs and processes engineers create in the transport, mining, energy, building and waste management sectors will be key in determining atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gasses over the coming decades. Similarly, the way landscapes, buildings, neighborhoods and cities are built or rebuilt, will undoubtedly be a major part of adaptation to higher temperatures, rising sea levels and more extreme weather events. The paper discusses some of the barriers that prevent engineering education and practice from fully and productively engaging with the challenges raised by climate change. The paper recommends an expansion of the solution set to which engineering students and graduates are exposed, a better understanding by engineering students of the politics of technology and possible biases of engineers, and more engagement on the part of engineers with the social and ecological embeddedness of technology.

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Section: Engineering Research On Climate Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Risk and social vulnerability: how engineering can engage more effectively with climate change

El-Zein

2014

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Climate and Related Uncertainties Influencing Research and Development Priorities

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Valverde

2015

ASCE-ASME J. Risk Uncertainty Eng. Syst., Part A: Civ. Eng.

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Sources of risk and uncertainty are key drivers of R&D priorities for infrastructure assets, projects, and policies. This paper describes risk factoring, which is a quantification of which climate and other diverse factors most influence the priorities of large industry and government facilities. The uncertainties addressed herein include temperature, storm intensity and frequencies, precipitation, coastal populations, sea--level rise, other environmental stressors, and factors deemed relevant by agency stakeholders. This process engages planners in four aspects: (i) a baseline multicriteria decision analysis of agency mission priorities; (ii) building of scenarios from uncertain factors including sea rise, storm frequency, erosion, land--use regulation, ecology, hydrology, etc.; (iii) priority evaluation of agency initiatives including projects, assets, geographical zones, policies, follow on studies, etc.; and (iv) concept for elicitation that supports dialogue in adaptive iterations. The results of the process have implications for a research and development roadmap for environment and ecology and other external stressors that impact the resilience of large-scale systems. The roadmap benefits from understanding which factors and combinations Headquarters 441 G St NW Washington, DC 20314 of factors are demonstrating relatively greater needs of additional investigation and modeling.

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Engineering for Climate Change Adaptation at the US Army Corps of Engineers: Policy, Plans, and Projects

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Risk and social vulnerability: how engineering can engage more effectively with climate change

Risk and social vulnerability: how engineering can engage more effectively with climate change

Climate and Related Uncertainties Influencing Research and Development Priorities

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