Considering curriculum, content, and delivery for adaptive pathways: higher education and disaster resilient infrastructure in the Indian urban context

IF 2.7 Q2 ENGINEERING, CIVIL

Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure Pub Date : 2022-10-20 DOI:10.1080/23789689.2022.2134645

Vineetha Nalla, Cassidy Johnson, Nihal Ranjit, G. Sen, Ananya Peddibhotla, M. Anand, Neha Bhatia, A. Bazaz

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Abstract

ABSTRACT In the context of urbanisation in the Global South and increasing climate-induced disaster events, fostering resilience in infrastructure systems is critical to delivering on goals of economic development, poverty reduction, and climate action. Adaptive pathways, given its inherent consideration of uncertainty and an embedded feedback mechanism, becomes a necessary conceptual underpinning to deliver on the resilient infrastructure challenge. We argue that knowledge and iterative learning are key components that enable the flexibility of adaptive pathways. Higher education (HE) plays a critical role in influencing knowledge that is adaptive and dynamic to respond to this challenge. This study adopts a qualitative approach with a case study design to identify gaps in how urban resilient infrastructure is conceptualised and taught in HE institutions. . The study finds that interdisciplinarity, when reflected in the elements of content, pedagogy, and delivery would foster substantial critical thinking and reflexivity required to address the resilient infrastructure challenge.

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考虑适应途径的课程、内容和交付：印度城市背景下的高等教育和抗灾基础设施

在全球发展中国家城市化和气候引发的灾害事件日益增多的背景下，增强基础设施系统的复原力对于实现经济发展、减少贫困和气候行动的目标至关重要。考虑到其固有的不确定性和嵌入式反馈机制，自适应路径成为应对弹性基础设施挑战的必要概念基础。我们认为，知识和迭代学习是实现适应性路径灵活性的关键组成部分。高等教育在影响具有适应性和动态的知识以应对这一挑战方面发挥着关键作用。本研究采用定性方法和案例研究设计，以确定在高等教育机构如何概念化和教授城市弹性基础设施方面的差距。研究发现，在内容、教学方法和交付等方面体现出的跨学科性，将培养应对弹性基础设施挑战所需的大量批判性思维和反思性。

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Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure ENGINEERING, CIVIL-

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期刊介绍： Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure is an interdisciplinary journal that focuses on the sustainable development of resilient communities. Sustainability is defined in relation to the ability of infrastructure to address the needs of the present without sacrificing the ability of future generations to meet their needs. Resilience is considered in relation to both natural hazards (like earthquakes, tsunami, hurricanes, cyclones, tornado, flooding and drought) and anthropogenic hazards (like human errors and malevolent attacks.) Resilience is taken to depend both on the performance of the built and modified natural environment and on the contextual characteristics of social, economic and political institutions. Sustainability and resilience are considered both for physical and non-physical infrastructure.