Climate Adaptation Planning

It's important to have a plan that can adapt as the situation changes. Traditional, static infrastructure plans are no longer enough to protect our communities from climate uncertainty.

Dynamic Adaptive Pathways Planning (DAPP) is a reactive approach that helps councils and decision-makers plan for the effects of Climate Change without locking in a single long-term response. Morphum’s methods aligns with the NZ Ministry for the Environment’s Coastal Hazards and Climate Change Guidance for DAPPs as well as national and international standards. By developing dynamic and reactive options we can set out clear signals and triggers that tell teams when it’s time to shift to a different approach for Climate Adaptation. These triggers are tied to measurable environmental conditions such as sea-level rise, allowing decisions  to be shifted to new, pre-planned resilience projects.

Transitioning from a theoretical framework to an actionable strategy requires specialised expertise. Morphum works with councils to apply DAPP to their own catchments and coastlines, building the pathways, setting the monitoring triggers, and turning the framework into a dynamic plan councils can actually implement and revisit as risk profiles shift.