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Rising above water

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Marta Jiménez | October 2021, Utrecht University

Sea levels are rising, and the rate of rise is accelerating. All over the world, many of today’s dikes, sea walls and flood barriers won’t be enough to hold back the water in the future. This will be particularly a problem in countries that lack the resources to maintain or fund extensive engineering projects to protect their citizens. But we can all learn from alternative, more affordable and flexible approaches that adapt to the rising water currently emerging all around the world.

Detail Rising above Water ©Utrecht University

Rather than only battling to keep ever-rising seas out, these natural solutions aim to help rebuild land above sea level. Researchers from Utrecht University are testing which of these strategies will work for specific regions to help tame the tide. And they’re also thinking ahead: how can we minimise the damage and ensure people have somewhere safe to go when the water does come?

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Premortem

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Volgens Gary Klein mislukken projecten  in een spectaculair tempo. Een van de redenen is dat te veel mensen hun bedenkingen niet willen uiten tijdens de zo belangrijke planningsfase. Door het veilig te maken voor andersdenkenden die goed op de hoogte zijn van de onderneming en zich zorgen maken over de zwakke punten ervan om zich uit te spreken, kun je de kans op succes van een project vergroten.

Gary Klein


Het artikel in de Harvard Business Review stelt Klein (2007): “Bij een premortem gaan teamleden ervan uit dat het project dat ze plannen net is mislukt – zoals zo vaak het geval is – en genereren ze vervolgens plausibele redenen voor de ondergang ervan. Degenen met bedenkingen kunnen aan het begin vrijuit spreken, zodat het project kan worden verbeterd in plaats van autopsie.”

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PreMortem

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Method of Risk Assessment

Gary Klein | December 2007 (by Jack Kruf)

According to Klein (2007), “Projects fail at a spectacular rate. One reason is that too many people are reluctant to speak up about their reservations during the all-important planning phase. By making it safe for dissenters who are knowledgeable about the undertaking and worried about its weaknesses to speak up, you can improve a project’s chances of success.”

The Harvard Business Review article: “In a premortem, team members assume that the project they are planning has just failed—as so many do—and then generate plausible reasons for its demise. Those with reservations may speak freely at the outset, so that the project can be improved rather than autopsied.”

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If Mayors Ruled the World

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Benjamin R. Barber | 2013

The world’s nations seem paralysed by the challenges of our time—climate change, terrorism, poverty, and the trafficking of drugs, guns, and people. The problems are too big, entrenched, and divisive for the nation-state. Is the nation-state, once democracy’s best hope, dysfunctional and obsolete today? According to Benjamin R. Barber, author of this book, the answer is yes.

Barber asserts that cities, and the mayors that run them, offer the best new forces of good governance: “Why cities? Cities already occupy the commanding heights of the global economy. They are home to more than half of the world’s population, a proportion which will continue to grow.

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