New publication in the Journal City and Environment Interactions
Prof. Dr. Bryan T. Adey's Chair of Infrastructure Management would like to congratulate doctoral candidate Jin Rui Yap for having her article titled “Trends and opportunities in adaptive planning for the built environment: A literature review” published in the Journal City and Environment Interactions.
In her paper, Jin Rui Yap presents the results of her bibliometric and literature analysis of the adaptive planning paradigm in the context of planning for the built environment. Her work highlights the parallels across multiple disciplines, unifies the different bodies of literature through a synthesis of theoretical insights, clarifies the core principles of adaptive planning, and identifies barriers and future research directions for adaptive planning in the built environment.
The three distinct disciplines related to adaptive planning are:
- The Pathways Approaches, arising from climate adaptation,
- Real Options, arising from financial analysis, and
- Adaptive Management, arising from the environmental sciences.
The four emerging challenges that require further exploration are:
- Multi-scale considerations,
- institutional rigidity and uncertainty avoidance
- organisational capacity development, and
- the science-policy gap.
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