Research partnerships needed!

Thursday, July 28, 2016

We're looking for partners and funders for investigations and engagement activities focused on one or a combination of the following themes:

  • Community resilience to natural hazards
  • Indigenous resilience to natural hazards
  • Impacts of flood on indigenous communities
  • Impacts of flood on rural communities
  • Impacts of flood on urban communities
  • Impacts of urban (non-riverine) flood on business continuity
  • Social vulnerability to flood
  • Links between resilience and emergency management
  • Locations and status of flood mitigation structures nationally
  • Regional differences in basement content types and values nationally
  • Social media and flood response and recovery
  • Public policy changes to strengthen adaptation and flood resiliency
  • Engaging citizen scientists in measuring and monitoring rainfall
  • Educating Canadians about flood risk and individual risk reduction measures

If you're interested in partnering on these initiatives, or have a related focus of your own, please let us know!