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Getting hotter? Screening public investment projects for climate change using digital mapping platforms

  

Getting hotter? Screening public investment projects for climate change using digital mapping platforms

Organizer: Singapore Swiss Technical University Centre

The session presents the insights gained from combining an institutional public investment management lens with an on-line applied digital mapping technology screening. The session will engage on the why, what and how urban rural (ur) scape, a geospatial planning support tool developed by the Singapore Swiss Technical University (ETH) Centre to support user-centric data analytics and visualization for information resilience strategies – building on a gaming technology engine.The approach serves to make more explicit at the upstream stage the expected footprint of a given physical infrastructure project, while allowing for this to be overlaid on a new generation of climate change risk related layers. Increasingly granular global risk layer feeds — including those leveraging satellite technologies and Artificial Intelligence (AI) — are making contexts more explicit, even in relatively data scarce developing country settings. While subject to a number of constraints and caveats, this entry point provides practical suggestions as to where planning, finance, sectoral, and sub-national authorities can already be leveraging user-friendly and cost-effective digital platforms and complementary data acquisition and validation efforts for applied decision support.

Speakers:
Dr Jonas Joerin, Co-​Director of Future Resilient Systems
Dr Yi Wang, Postdoctoral Researcher, People and Operations in Resilient Systems
Michael Joos, Software Engineer


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