Climate Resilience and Adaptation for Rural Roads

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University of Birmingham

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Climate Resilience and Adaptation for Rural Roads

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Climate Resilience and Adaptation for Rural Roads

The course Climate Resilience and Adaptation for Rural Roads is an online class provided by University of Birmingham through Future Learn. It may be possible to receive a verified certification or use the course to prepare for a degree.

Find out how planners and road designers can manage the effect of climate change and extreme weather on rural roads.

Course description

Discover how rural roads can become more resilient to changing weather patterns
3 weeks

We already know that climate change is having a significant impact on temperature, rainfall and wind speed.
Planners, designers and managers of rural road infrastructures must keep up-to-date with the nature of these changes. This includes understanding the likelihood of occurrence, as well as the implications on the financing, design, and maintenance of these roads in the future.
On this course, you’ll explore these factors and consider how new and existing infrastructure can be planned, designed, upgraded, maintained and adapted to become more climate-resilient.

Explore research from the Research for Community Access Partnership (ReCAP) on rural roads.
Identify the anthropogenic causes of Climate change and global warming and have a basic understanding of the science that underpins climate change.
Assess how confidently climate change tools can be used to predict the most likely regional climate change events and the anticipated impact on rural roads.
Develop a range of maintenance and rehabilitation strategies and approaches to adapt the rural road network to climate change events and mitigate against damage and loss of function.
Explain effectively (to stakeholders and national strategic transport planners) the importance of appropriate planning for Climate change and adoption of climate adaptation procedures.

This course is for anyone who has a general interest in learning about the impact of climate change on rural infrastructure.
It will be particularly useful for rural road practitioners and researchers in Sub Saharan Africa and South Asia, practitioners who manage, design, construct and maintain Low Volume Rural Roads (LVRR), and postgraduate Engineering students studying rural road development in emerging and developing countries.

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Climate Resilience and Adaptation for Rural Roads

Course Topic

Politics & Society, Science, Engineering & Maths

University, College, Institution

University of Birmingham

Course Skill Level

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Course Language

English

Place of class

Online, self-paced (see curriculum for more information)

Degree

Certificate

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Climate Resilience and Adaptation for Rural Roads

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