Canadian Coastal Resilience Forum

Researcher Spotlight Series: Disaster preparedness and mitigation in an integrated risk landscape

Shaieree Cottar — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Connor Darlington, PhD Candidate in Geography, is researching disaster preparedness and flood risk in Canada.

Leveraging flood insurance data for local government use: Survey findings from 59 Canadian cities

Shaieree Cottar — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Is there value in governments accessing flood insurance data (e.g., industry flood maps) and sharing their flood risk data with insurance companies?

Researcher Spotlight Series: Play your way to preparedness - Enhancing collective decision-making on flood risk management through a serious game

Shaieree Cottar — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 12:00:00 +0000

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

Shaieree Cottar — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 12:00:00 +0000

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.

Tags: climate change, sea level rise, coastal, adaptation, infrastructure

Climbing to higher ground: Are Canadian cities able to adapt and prepare for climate induced migration?

Shaieree Cottar — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Recap: Building Resilient Cities on Higher Ground

Learning Session: Building Community Resilience through Planned Retreat

Shaieree Cottar — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 12:00:00 +0000

On June 25th 2020, the Climigration Network Learning Community hosted a learning session on building long term climate resilience through the use of planned retreat as a climate change adaptation strategy. This webinar brought together leading experts from the University of Waterloo, Gevity Consulting Inc.

Highlighting an innovative idea: Yale Open Lab’s Climate Collabathon

Shaieree Cottar — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 12:00:00 +0000

On April 22nd 2020, the Open Climate Collabathon launched a year-long event to leverage technological expertise found around the world for developing a climate accounting system.

Adaptation Canada 2020 Recap: Important Takeaways

Shaieree Cottar — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Canada’s largest national conference on climate change adaptation was held last month in Vancouver, British Columbia. This conference brought together practitioners and academics from coast to coast to coast, including members of the Canadian Coastal Resilience Forum.

Setting a new precedent: Dyke realignment and managed retreat facilitate coastal climate adaptation in Truro, Nova Scotia

Shaieree Cottar — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 12:00:00 +0000

How should coastal communities in Nova Scotia cope with increased sea level rise and extreme flooding? This question motivated community members, property owners, Indigenous communities and governments to realign a section of Nova Scotia's North Onslow dyke in order to strengthen resilience to natural hazards and mitigate future flood risks.

Tags: Floods, coastal, adaptation, disaster risk reduction, climate change

Protecting Nova Scotia’s coasts from climate change

Andrea Minano — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 12:00:00 +0000

The coast is emblematic of Nova Scotia, its people and its culture. About 70% of Nova Scotia’s population resides along the coast making this “coastal zone” a place where private and public development has concentrated over the years.

Sea level rise and climate change pose a serious threat for coastal properties and populations in this Atlantic Canada province. Not only does infrastructure becomes at risk of permanent inundation, but important industries to the economy can also be impacted, such as through more frequent business interruptions from damaging storm surges.

Tags: Coastal zone management, Flood, Erosion, Atlantic Canada, Nova Scotia