Our infrastructure helps to shape our communities; our communities, in turn, have a role in shaping the infrastructure that serves them, identifying t just core service levels, acceptable levels of risk, or cost, but alignment with values, today and over the long term. This session will share some of the steps Swedish municipalities have taken to lift climate and community in infrastructure planning. These findings come from a recent study tour to Sweden, sponsored in part by APWA’s Jennings Randolph Fellowship. Through invation, data, co-ownership, and collaboration, Swedish municipalities are offering new solutions to ensure community values and priorities are reflected in infrastructure investment portfolios. This session will encourage creative thinking about how we place a value on all we value. After this session, participants will be able to:
• Assess ways to imbue infrastructure decisions with long-term thinking, considering impacts to this and future generations.
• Consider additional inputs into triple bottom-line calculations to better account for climate-related impacts.
• Employ different types of engagement and partnership to maximize the outcome of infrastructure investments.

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Emily Tritsch

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