Connor Darlington, PhD Candidate in Geography, is researching disaster preparedness and flood risk in Canada.
The United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report this month highlighting the impacts, adaptations and vulnerabilities that climate change will bring to different human and ecological systems across the globe.
Is there value in governments accessing flood insurance data (e.g., industry flood maps) and sharing their flood risk data with insurance companies?
From October 25th through November 5th, MEOPAR held its Annual Training Meeting (ATM) which seeks to gather highly qualified professionals, academics, researchers and students from across the coasts to mobilize knowledge and connect via workshops on science communication, career development in a digital era, and interdisciplinary collaboration. This year’s annual training meeting theme was Building Future Skills to Address Canada’s Marine Challenges which was aimed at supporting coordinated action for the UN Decade of Ocean Sciences for Sustainable Development.
Integrating vulnerability and gender-based analysis plus factors with hazard exposure as a socially inclusive and equitable risk assessment tool.
Catastrophic flooding in British Columbia
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.
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.
Shaieree Cottar is a PhD Student in the department of Geography and Environmental Management. She is researching the emergent role of property buyouts as a climate adaptation tool in Canadian municipalities. Her work intersects the areas of climate policy, disaster risk reduction and managed retreat.
Andrea Minano, PhD Candidate in Geography, is researching how cross-sectoral collaboration in data management could strengthen flood resiliency in Canada. Andrea is interested in reducing and managing the "flood insurance gap" in Canada—a proportion of residential properties that are exposed to flooding and cannot find flood insurance protection.