Join us on Wednesday, 8 May, 5:15-6:45pm NZT, for the May 2024 INCOSE NZ meet-up! After a bit of chapter and regional activity business, we'll feature a presentation from Shashini Ranabahu, of Massey University, titled “Dynamics of resilience to floods of community mobility - an opportunity to "build back better" through systems thinking.”  

This study demonstrates how recovery can improve the system after a disruption (build back better), taking the Kaduwela urban area in the Western Province of Sri Lanka as a case study. A quantitative System Dynamics model is developed to evaluate the resilience of the community mobility system related to the 2016 flood based on a conceptual causal loop diagram created with the participation of local people. This model is used to simulate "what if" scenarios to demonstrate the system's dynamics, which allows one to understand what should be changed to reduce the recovery time or level of disruption. This framework provides an opportunity to think and re-think the decisions because the simulation results can show how the changes in the system components affect the overall system or, in other words, the consequences of the decisions.

Link to recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIgxxXJJVgU