Connor Darlington, PhD Candidate in Geography, is researching disaster preparedness and flood risk in Canada.
Is there value in governments accessing flood insurance data (e.g., industry flood maps) and sharing their flood risk data with insurance companies?
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.
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.
Recap: Building Resilient Cities on Higher Ground
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.