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64 Evaluating climate resilience at airports can best be thought of as part of the overall risk management processes that most airports already have. This appendix describes a generic management structure for assembling a team to analyze the potential impacts and responses to climate change and discusses specific risk management activities that such a team might undertake.
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Institutional Background: Existing Airport Resources and Plans 65 to receive the results and react to them in a timely and orderly fashion. In many cases, the ability to successfully communicate with external stakeholders (such as airport users, local government, and the public)
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66 Climate Resilience and Benefit–Cost Analysis: A Handbook for Airports participants from the FAA and members of the public as well as airlines, other operators, and airport tenants as part of an oversight group. Resilience Team Activities After consideration of who should be involved, the next issue to address is what tasks these participants should be undertaking.
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Institutional Background: Existing Airport Resources and Plans 67 Once the structure and goals of the resilience team are set up, attention can turn to the main information presented in this handbook: • How to define and measure aspects of climate change that may be relevant to the airport, • How to assess potential airport impacts, including identifying and targeting airport assets and infrastructure and assessing vulnerability and criticality, and • How an FFA or a BCA is used to identify and quantitatively assess possible responses or adaptations to accomplish the operational goals identified by the team. In carrying out these activities, there should be a process for monitoring, reviewing, and updating information as it becomes available to be incorporated into either an FFA or BCA.
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68 Climate Resilience and Benefit–Cost Analysis: A Handbook for Airports Having an AEP in place with detailed cost estimates in case of an emergency is useful when highlighting the costs incurred and avoided in a BCA. Additionally, the AEP may help to develop a budget system to track actual expenses for preparedness and recovery after the natural disaster.
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Institutional Background: Existing Airport Resources and Plans 69 minimum threshold has since been increased to $10 million (2015)
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70 Climate Resilience and Benefit–Cost Analysis: A Handbook for Airports The NPR system provides an opportunity for climate resiliency projects to be incorporated formally into the prioritization process. The NPR formula is: NPR 0.25P A 1.4P C 1.2T ( )
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Institutional Background: Existing Airport Resources and Plans 71 Airport Master Plans An airport master plan is intended to serve as a guide for development to meet future demand in the near-, mid-, and long-term. The scale of such a plan varies depending on the size of the airport, its function, and its challenges.
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72 Climate Resilience and Benefit–Cost Analysis: A Handbook for Airports Given the complexity of climate change factors and impacts, no direct linkage of a particular project to climatological changes is given in the current guidance. The FAA acknowledges that the guidance will evolve as research on climate change matures.
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Institutional Background: Existing Airport Resources and Plans 73 (FAA 2014d)
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74 Climate Resilience and Benefit–Cost Analysis: A Handbook for Airports ACRP Report 116: Guidebook for Successfully Assessing and Managing Risks for Airport Capital and Maintenance Projects provides details on the creation and consistent updating of a risk register, the qualitative evaluation of risk (probability and impact) , the quantification of risk probabilities, and appropriate responses (Price 2014)
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Institutional Background: Existing Airport Resources and Plans 75 Impact and likelihood assessments can then be combined to generate a heat map, such as shown in Exhibit A-8, which visualizes the relative risks due to impact and likelihood and allows decision makers to prioritize them. This is a well-known method that the FAA has in many cases accepted for use -- for example, in the SRM practices delineated in FAA Order 5200.11 (FAA 2014d)
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76 Climate Resilience and Benefit–Cost Analysis: A Handbook for Airports the benefits of mitigation (in the form of reduced impact or reduced likelihood) should be assessed against the costs, which may be substantial if, for example, a major upgrade or replacement of infrastructure is involved.
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