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?
Integrating vulnerability and gender-based analysis plus factors with hazard exposure as a socially inclusive and equitable risk assessment tool.
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.
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.