Webinar – The Science of Resilience in Decision-Making

This webinar will take place on Wednesday, Dec 5th 2018, 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EST. Erica Goldman, NSCE Science Policy Director, will moderate a multi-disciplinary discussion on climate resilient infrastructure. She’ll be joined by specialists in engineering, water resources, urban planning and natural hazards. Erica will moderates a multi-disciplinary discussion on climate resilient infrastructure. This 90-minute webinar is sponsored by ASU’s School of Sustainability in partnership with the National Council for Science and the Environment and will explore:

• Resilience as a paradigm to understand infrastructure at a systems level
• Social science as a critical component in planning for and understanding resilience
• Resilient design as a continuum, rather than an endpoint
• The role of social and institutional infrastructure in disaster response and planning for climate impacts
  

Panelists

• Thomas Seager
  Associate Professor
  School of Sustainable Engineering & the Built Environment
  Arizona State University
• Patricia Solis
  Executive Director
  Knowledge Exchange for Resilience
  Arizona State University
• Jennifer Tobin
  Deputy Administrator
  Natural Hazards Center
  University of Colorado
• Joe Manous
  Director
  Institute for Water Resources
  US Army Corps of Engineers

 Science of Resilience Resources

Here is a folder of material you can download in preparation for the webinar. It includes guidance co-authored by panelists, including:

• Tom Seager on resilience in decision-making
• Patricia Solis on how spatial information can help resolve disconnects between scientists and decision makers
• A multi-disciplinary community resilience study of flooding in Lumberton, NC, with a chapter co-authored by Jennifer Tobin
• The Army Corps of Engineers’ Resilience Initiative Roadmap

Click here to download the folder
Click here to register.