Singapore climate change adaptation planning for water infrastructure is assessed against the concept of “vital security systems.” Cast against the historicity of water planning and postcolonial urbanism, water supply, coastal protection, and flood control are understood in terms of vigilance, emergency, prediction, and control. It is argued that climate adaptation planning relies on a naturalistic understanding of predictable, linear transformations in base climatic variables and thus fails to take into consideration the “pluripotency” of climate futures—that is, the inherent unpredictability of nonlinear transformations that arise in the conjunction of human and nonhuman systems.

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现代主义基础设施和水的重要系统安全：新加坡的多能气候未来

新加坡水基础设施的气候变化适应规划是根据“重要安全系统”的概念进行评估的。与水规划和后殖民城市化的历史性背道而驰，供水、海岸保护和防洪在警惕、紧急、预测和控制方面得到理解。有人认为，气候适应规划依赖于对基础气候变量中可预测的线性变换的自然理解，因此没有考虑气候未来的“多能性”——即在结合中出现的非线性变换的固有不可预测性人类和非人类系统。