Towards managing risk from climate change through comprehensive, inclusive and resilient UK infrastructure planning

通过全面、包容和有弹性的英国基础设施规划来管理气候变化风险

基本信息

批准号：
NE/M008401/1
负责人：
Christian Wagner
金额：
$ 5.08万
依托单位：
University of Nottingham
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2014
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2014 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FM008401%2F1
关键词：
Towards managing risk climate change

项目摘要

The UK, along with most other nations in Europe, is encountering a paradigm shift as the funding, management, and protection of infrastructure is increasingly expected to be managed through partnership-led governance ensuring better informed and more viable, long-term decision making. This shift in emphasis from 'top-down' direct government, to 'bottom-up' stakeholder engagement is particularly pronounced in managing risks to critical infrastructure and the environment.Current methodologies and tools, such as surveys and stakeholder focus groups, aimed at consultation with stakeholder organisations and citizens are however generally limited in scope and insufficiently open or adaptive. Thus, they do not effectively inform the complex planning processes underlying comprehensive, multi-faceted infrastructure development planning as undertaken for example in the Thames Estuary. In order to inform and reconcile planning approaches to heterogeneous challenges such as environmental risk protection, economic viability (e.g., fisheries) and ecosystem management, new consultation methods and novel ways of combining multi-stakeholder views with quantitative data are urgently needed.The Thames Estuary Partnership (TEP) and its partners are facing the challenge of stakeholder integration in the planning of imminent, major infrastructural development in the context of large scale projects in the areas of pollution (sewers), flood protection and ecosystem management. This project is designed to leverage, apply and evaluate - in the Thames Estuary Infrastructure context, cutting edge methodologies and software tools for value-based, data-driven planning methods developed and tested as part of the recent, interdisciplinary EPSRC funded project "Towards Data-Driven Environmental Policy Design" (TDDEPD). Building on novel developments in human data capture and computer science, these techniques enable the rapid and comprehensive capture of qualitative data; e.g., stakeholder opinion and their integration with quantitative data sources such as sensor measurements (e.g., rainfall levels) and process outputs. While these planning methodologies were developed in a very different topical (i.e. environmental protection planning) and geographic (Western Australian wetlands) context, this project will explore their adaptation and application to the context of infrastructural planning in the Thames Estuary. In order to establish their viability, the project brings together an exceptional team, led by the TEP and including the Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute and School of Computer Science from the University of Nottingham (Horizon) and integrating key expertise in planning contributed (as an in-kind contribution) by the Department for Parks and Wildlife by the Western Australian Government.The ambitious project will deliver a novel value-driven methodology for infrastructure planning, including an adapted framework for stakeholder engagement. A digital platform enabling the capture and processing of both stakeholder input and (often uncertain) quantitative data (e.g., water levels) will be developed and will provide essential management support tools such as sensitivity analyses for potential infrastructure changes. The latter will also directly support the evaluation of the proposed approach and will enable addressing a concrete use case within the project time frame (Clean Seas Please). TEP believe that a values-based approach to managing infrastructure, risk, and habitat creation will be the only effective way forward. They believe that using the methods to be developed in this work by a team with a strong track record and significant expertise will transform the way they interact with those to whom they are responsible at the levels of policy setting, and policy implementation and will enable the comprehensive planning and development of infrastructure in the future.

英国与欧洲的大多数其他国家一起遇到范式转变，因为越来越多的资金，管理和保护基础设施的资金，管理和保护将通过合伙企业领导的治理来管理，从而确保更好的知情和更可行的长期决策。从“自上而下”的直接政府到“自下而上”的利益相关者参与的这种重点转变在管理关键基础设施和环境的风险方面尤其明显。但是，诸如与利益相关者组织和公民的咨询方面的情况和工具（例如，调查和利益相关者焦点小组）在范围内的咨询量通常有限，或者在范围内有限或不适用范围。因此，他们没有有效地为例如在泰晤士河河口进行的全面，多方面的基础设施开发计划提供综合，多方面的基础设施开发计划。为了告知和调和计划方法，以解决异质挑战，例如环境风险保护，经济生存能力（例如渔业）和生态系统管理，新的咨询方法和将多方面相关性数据与定量数据相结合的新方法是迫切需要的。污染领域（下水道），防洪和生态系统管理领域的大规模项目的背景。该项目旨在利用，应用和评估 - 在泰晤士河河口基础架构上下文，最先进的计划驱动的计划方法和软件工具中，作为最近的，跨学科EPSRC资助的项目的一部分，“针对数据驱动的环境政策设计”（TDDDEPD）。这些技术以人类数据捕获和计算机科学的新发展为基础，可以快速，全面地捕获定性数据；例如，利益相关者的意见及其与定量数据源的集成，例如传感器测量（例如降雨量）和过程输出。尽管这些计划方法是在截然不同的主题（即环境保护计划）和地理（西澳大利亚湿地）环境中开发的，但该项目将探讨其对泰晤士河河口基础设施规划环境的适应和应用。为了建立自己的生存能力，该项目汇集了一个由TEP领导的杰出团队，包括诺丁汉大学（Horizon）（Horizon）的地平线数字经济研究所和计算机科学学院，并将关键的专业知识融合在计划中（作为实物贡献），由西澳大利亚州政府提供了一个富有的项目，包括一项新颖的项目，这些方法将提供新颖的项目，以提供新颖的项目学框架。利益相关者的参与。一个数字平台，可以开发利益相关者输入和（通常是不确定的）定量数据（例如，水位）的数字平台，并将提供基本的管理支持工具，例如对潜在基础设施变化的灵敏度分析。后者还将直接支持对拟议方法的评估，并能够在项目时间范围内解决具体用例（请清洁海洋）。 TEP认为，一种基于价值的方法来管理基础设施，风险和栖息地创建将是唯一有效的前进方法。他们认为，使用具有强大往绩和大量专业知识的团队在这项工作中开发的方法将改变他们与他们在政策制定层面和政策实施层面负责的人的互动方式，并将在将来实现基础设施的全面计划和开发。