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8 This self-assessment is intended to help you, an airport system manager or climate risk management champion, identify the hazards most relevant for your airport and determine how to start integrating climate change considerations into your airport's management systems. This process will involve first gathering and compiling information on expected climate hazards in your location and then identifying possible impacts to your airport.
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Conduct Self-Assessment of Relevant Climate Hazards and Management Systems 9 Climate Hazard Physical Risks Operational and Business Risks Safety and Security Risks High temperatures • Reduced operational lifespan of airport pavements • Pavement buckling and loss of non-concrete pavement integrity • Increased stress on air conditioning systems • Greater demand and increased costs for cooling • Limits to aircraft operations due to insufficient runway lengths • Higher risk of heatrelated health issues for workers • Increased risk of fuel ignition (flashpoint of aviation fuel at 100°F) • Changes in vector-borne and contagious diseases, increasing risk of disease spread through air travel Heavy precipitation and flooding • Flooding and associated damage to facilities (e.g., buildings, drainage systems, navigational aids)
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10 Using Existing Airport Management Systems to Manage Climate Risk Use this information to fill out columns A and B of the self-assessment worksheet (Appendix A)
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Conduct Self-Assessment of Relevant Climate Hazards and Management Systems 11 Open the ACROS tool, enter your airport code, and get projections for multiple climate hazards for your airport. View the results either 1.
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12 Using Existing Airport Management Systems to Manage Climate Risk 2.2 What Are My Expected Climate Risks? Next, translate the information about climate hazards into climate risks that are relevant for your airport.
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Conduct Self-Assessment of Relevant Climate Hazards and Management Systems 13 Figure 6. Examples of climate hazard projections from the ACROS tool (shown for BOS)
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14 Using Existing Airport Management Systems to Manage Climate Risk time rating the criticality (importance) and vulnerability of your airport's assets to the hazards and reviewing the results to ensure that they are appropriate for your airport.
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Conduct Self-Assessment of Relevant Climate Hazards and Management Systems 15 Populated for BOS based on default ACROS tool results. A B C D E Expected Hazards Expected Timing Physical Risks Business and Operational Risks Safety and Security Risks High temperatures 2030s: 1.5–9.4 hot days 2060s: 3.7–22.4 hot days by 2060 High.
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16 Using Existing Airport Management Systems to Manage Climate Risk If you are not using the ACROS tool, attempt to apply qualitative risk ratings (i.e., high, medium, and low) to the risks that you have identified.
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Conduct Self-Assessment of Relevant Climate Hazards and Management Systems 17 Figure 9 provides an example of how these concepts might be applied in practice to match an airport's risks to the appropriate management systems to start with. For example, an airport with low physical risks and high business and operational risks may want to start with asset management, enterprise risk management, and strategic planning.
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18 Using Existing Airport Management Systems to Manage Climate Risk Update Schedule Finally, it is pragmatic to incorporate climate risks into airport management systems as a part of their usual update schedule. Identify the management systems that are due for updates and determine which would be most relevant, given the considerations discussed in this section.
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