SU 6183 - Urban planning for sustainability and resilience (3) Offered online only

This course explores complex adaptive systems and adaptive management approaches to design smart resilient communities. Multi-scale challenges require multi-scale solutions. This course will focus on social ecological systems and socio-technological systems integration framework to unravel the complex pathways that determine community resilience and enable smart design processes at the nexus of food, energy and water systems. The emphasis will be placed on imparting cutting edge skills, such as system dynamic models, early warning systems, resilience design approaches and interactive scenario planning techniques, to enable students to work with community stakeholders for analyzing, planning and designing smart resilient communities.