Climate Change: Building the Age of Resilience

Website: http://www.ciwem.org/events/events-calendar/2014/oct/23/climate-change-building-the-age-of-resilience.aspx

This conference will:

• Summarise the social and economic case for developing climate resilient systems and infrastructure and examine how to communicate this most effectively
• Identify how to deal with a range of uncertainties in climate predictions when taking key decisions on resilience
• Examine how different sectors are approaching the challenge of climate resilience and learn the lessons of their experience
• Identify lessons from recent extreme events and consider how these can be reflected in the development of resilient systems
• Examine how resilience can be reflected in design and measuring and monitoring and how measures can be identified and optimised through effective stakeholder engagement and partnerships