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Infrastructure systems underpin societies and economies all over the world. Infrastructures are the very systems that enable societies to function: providing potable water supply, electricity, telecommunications, and transport mobility, amongst others. Consequently, appropriate planning of infrastructure systems plays a fundamental role in driving a sustainable and resilient economy in the face of future uncertainty.
The course is delivered in three main modules:
Infrastructure for sustainable development: Contextualises infrastructure systems within key global agendas, such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement, and describes approaches for setting national visions and targets and how those may be achieved with particular strategies.
Infrastructure for climate resilience: Examines the nature of current and future climate risks to infrastructure systems and services and how these can be modelled and assessed, and concludes with providing different approaches of how to make decisions for infrastructure resilience in the face of climate and socio-economic uncertainty.
Nature-based solutions for sustainable, climate-compatible development: Assesses the opportunities for nature-based solutions to protect, complement or substitute grey infrastructure service delivery in order to underpin global development agendas.
The course closes with a lecture on the role of the enabling environment in planning and implementing sustainable infrastructure systems, before the final lecture where the whole course is summarised, and key recommendations of actions are made.
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This is the March 2026 presentation of the course.
This course is part of a collection
This course is part of a collection of courses called Climate Compatible Growth March 2026 courses. There are 24 courses in this collection so you may find other courses here that maybe of interest to you.
Recognise the role that infrastructure plays in underpinning global development agendas, such as the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement
Utilise the NISMOD tool to evaluate the current performance of infrastructure systems and assess future demands for a case study nation of St Lucia, and develop your own strategy to achieve national sustainability and/or emission targets
Calculate infrastructure asset risk and vulnerability from climatic hazards, and assess how disruptions and damages can directly and indirectly propagate through networks, and apply this knowledge to the Ghana case study
Understand the different approaches available for decision-making und future climate and socio-economic uncertainty
Recognise how nature-based solutions can protect, complement or substitute grey infrastructure systems in underpinning sustainable and climate-compatible growth.
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The structure of the course material is as follows:
Infrastructure for sustainable development, which will entail seven hours of lectures (Lectures 1-7) and four hands-on sessions (Hands-on 1-4) of one hour each;
Infrastructure for climate resilience, which will also entail seven hours of lectures (Lectures 8-14) and four hands-on sessions (Hands-on 5-8) of two hours each; and
Nature-based solutions for sustainable, climate-compatible development, which will entail four hours of lectures (Lectures 15-18) and two hands-on sessions (Hands-on 9-10) of one hour each.
Within the lecture material, we advise when to do the relevant hands-on sessions. Therefore, we recommend that students begin with lecture material and then go through the hands-on sessions alongside relevant lectures. We strongly encourage students to learn the different approaches and tools and apply them to their own countries or areas of interest.
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Module 1: Infrastructure for sustainable development
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This course is made available under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0: Climate Compatible Growth consortium
Any third-party materials featured in this course are used with permission and are not ours to give away. These materials are not subject to the Creative Commons licence. See the
terms and conditions and our FAQs. Please see the course acknowledgements for further information about copyright details.
For further information, take a look at our frequently asked questions which may give you the support you need.
