The Canadian Coastal Resilience Forum (CCRF) is a community of practice focused on strengthening resilience to climate change and hazards in Canada’s coastal regions.
Natural hazards pose a serious threat to public safety, livelihoods and local economies in coastal regions. For example, heavy rainfall, storm surges, and river floods can have costly impacts on social, economic, environmental and cultural assets.
The CCRF was established to facilitate knowledge-sharing across sectors, institutions and disciplines and to identify policy and governance strategies for reducing and managing the consequences of natural hazards in coastal areas, such as:
- Clarifying the roles and responsibilities across government levels, for-profit and non-profit organizations and the public in risk prevention, reduction and disaster recovery
- Identifying policies in place that promote (rather than prevent and discourage) rebuilding in risky areas after disasters occur (e.g., floods)
- Locating exposed and vulnerable populations and achievable measures of self-protection and risk reduction
This initiative is kindly supported by the Marine Environmental Observation, Prediction and Response Network (MEOPAR)—a federally-funded Network of Centres of Excellence.
News
Recap on MEOPAR’s Virtual Research Conferences: National Forum on Coastal Community Resilience and the Annual Scientific & Training Meeting
In late September, MEOPAR’s Response Core hosted an interactive virtual National Forum on Coastal Community Resilience: Local Government Initiatives to Address Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Flooding. The forum offered a unique opportunity to connect, share and learn about coastal adaptation approaches for Canada’s coastal municipalities and communities.
New Study analyzes media coverage of Canadian flood disasters as a policy issue
Does media coverage of a natural disaster influence public policy? How are Canadian flood disasters portrayed in the media?
CCRF welcomes Shaieree Cottar as the new coordinator
The Canadian Coastal Resilience Forum (CCRF) is pleased to welcome its newest member, Shaieree Cottar as the Coordinator.
Blog
Researcher Spotlight Series: Critical Infrastructure Resilience in a Changing Climate
Sandra Biskupovic, PhD student at the University of Waterloo, is researching the complex topic of critical infrastructure resilience in the context of climate change. Sandra is interested in identifying and establishing effective multi-level governance arrangements which would effectively reduce the societal impacts which occur when critical infrastructure is disrupted because of extreme weather and natural disasters.
Researcher Spotlight Series: Play your way to preparedness - Enhancing collective decision-making on flood risk management through a serious game
The Flood Resilience Challenge © serious game is continuing to pick up momentum even after Dr. Evalyna Bogdan completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Waterloo (2019-2021). The goal of the FRC game is to strengthen stakeholder capacity for collective decision-making and was part of Dr. Bogdan’s postdoctoral research on Building Capacity for Difficult Conversations on Flood Risk Management in Canada’s Communities.
Bracing for future climate risks: Implementing actionable adaptation strategies to protect critical infrastructure in New York City
How do we protect New York City’s critical infrastructure systems from inundation? This question prompted New York City (NYC) authorities to consider flexible adaptation strategies, infrastructure investments and policy solutions to promote the benefits of ‘protect’ and ‘accommodate’ measures against future sea level rise (SLR), extreme precipitation, coastal flooding and storm surge events.