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- Grey water Reuse
- Public awareness
The following table explains the adaptation action related to infrastructure:
Actions’ Adaptation Actions
characteristic
Strategic Water and waste water management plan
Alert /
Communicati
on
Educational
Technical
Modelling predicted supply changes in the electricity from the locally
available RES sources that serve the community, as a result of the
climate change
Frequent monitoring of the infrastructure in order to spot and quickly
repair any damages
Reduce uncertainties in climatic design values, regularly updated
climatic design values, enforcement of codes and standards,
maintenance of climate data records and networks, consistent
forensic analyses of infrastructure failures, regular maintenance
scheduling and community disaster management planning.
Issuing alerts in case a part of the infrastructure has been severely
damaged and citizens should avoid it
Developing guides and awareness raising campaigns for citizens on
how to save water and energy, especially during crisis
Integration of sustainable drainage systems
Establishment of underground water reservoirs
Building desalination plants based on the best available technologies
Increase the use of renewable energy to decrease pressure on the
public grid and would contribute to prevent failure of power plants
Development of controlled flood management zones near afflicted
Estimated cost in JOD
100,000
70,000,000 JOD
Years of Implementation
Adaptation actions for built environment
The importance of adaptation actions in built environment is to improve the resilience of the built environment in the face
of climate change and also will aims to protect the wellbeing of communities through targeted policy initiatives and better
urban and building design, ensure appropriate institutional arrangements to facilitate adaptation, realise economic
benefits from early adaptation through effective strategic planning and risk minimization, advance sustainability through
better resource and risk management strategies, and increase community education and awareness about climate change
risks and adaptation.
Urban Sector:
The Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) is the latest generation of scenarios that provide input to climate
models. Scenarios have long been used by planners and decision makers to analyse situations in which outcomes are
uncertain. In climate research, emissions scenarios are used to explore how much humans could contribute to future
climate change given uncertainties in factors such as population growth, economic development, and development of new
technologies. Projections and scenarios of future social and environmental conditions are also used to explore how much
impact lesser or greater amounts of climate change would have on different possible states of the world, for example
futures with greater or lesser amounts of poverty. The purpose of using scenarios is not to predict the future, but to explore
both the scientific and real-world implications of different plausible futures.
According to Jordan’s Third National Communication report on Climate Change (TNC), at the kingdom level, the overall
exposure in RCP 4.5 is low and moderate in RCP 8.5, although the exposure is low, the events concentrate in certain
geographic areas and thus the kingdom exposure is not the best representation for specific urban areas as Amman and
Salt. The main factor, which reduced the exposure score, is the confidence of occurrence due to the large geographic
coverage which is not uniform in exposure. For the purpose of better representation of climate change impact on
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