Webinar 02: Re-designing land, water & marine surveying systems to make them FFP for climate action
Channel: FIG Climate Compass Task Force
Date: 29/11/2023

This second International Federation of Surveyors Climate Compass Task Force webinar explores the latest thinking on re-designing surveying systems for climate resilience. 

Re-designing involves: climate impact assessments and designing to minimize environmental impact; changing surveying systems to adapt to changing climate conditions and evolving technology; modifying data collection methods to pick up climate-related features; integrating surveying and climate data and increasing inter-operability; developing tools to support climate adaptation and mitigation, including for real-time monitoring; developing scenario simulations (e.g. digital twins) to support decision making; moving from data collection to analysis; and industry wide capacity development.

Our knowledge gaps
• Re-designing to minimize climate impact and address climate change.
• What are the legal and ethical issues?
• What new fit-for-purpose tools are needed for climate resilience?
• What are the capacity gaps?

Speakers
Dr Jamal Browne speaks about coastal erosion in small island states and involuntary resettlement. He is the Global Focal Point for Housing, Land and Property in the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), and has worked on disaster risk reduction in the Caribbean. Dr Kwabena Asiama talks on the valuation of unregistered customary/indigenous land and natural accounting. He is the Chair of FIG Commission 8 and a lecturer in land economy at KNUST University. Simon Ironside and Assistant Professor Gordana Jakovljevic at Banja Luka University talk about mapping plastics in the oceans. They will draw from their work together for FIG Commission 4 on Hydrographic Surveying, also with the FIG Young Surveyors Network. Their presentations will be followed by QNA as we share knowledge and identify climate actions that surveyors can and should be doing.