- Impacts & Adaptation
Research Programme
- Andrew Allison
NIWA - View the full team
Project Lead
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Budget
$505,000 -
Duration
October 2020-September 2023
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Active project
Adapting to compound flood hazards
Adaptive tools for decisions on compounding climate change impacts on water infrastructure
This project will address compounding flood hazards on water infrastructure due to climate change. The research will investigate how flood hazards from rivers, sea-level rise and groundwater will combine either as extreme events (shocks), or as slowly emerging and increasingly persistent impacts.

The research will consider whether we can continue to adapt incrementally, or at what point and under which conditions we would need transformational change to cope. Working with researchers from TU Delft in the Netherlands, the team will test Robust Decision Making (RDM) tools within a Dynamic Adaptive Pathways Planning (DAPP) process.
The goal is to identify what to monitor, in order to understand when a switch from incremental to transformational adaptation may be necessary. The project aims to provide a framework for future infrastructure adaptation, under uncertain climate futures.
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Judy Lawrence
NZ Climate Change Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington -
Paula Blackett
NIWA -
Scott Stephens
NIWA -
Jan Kwakkel
TU Delft, Netherlands -
Adolf Stroombergen
Infometrics -
Rob Bell
NIWA -
Andrew Allison
NIWA