RISE Principal Investigator Michael Drescher and RISE team member and PhD candidate Adam Skoyles joined host Alysha Helmrich on The Resilient Futures podcast.
During the interview, Michael and Adam covered a broad range of issues and challenges related to residential developments, including:
- How residential landscapes in Canada have changed from the 1980s to today;
- The role of blue-green infrastructure in residential developments, its benefits and how it can help communities meet climate mitigation goals;
- The various stakeholders involved in the residential development planning process and opportunities for understanding the decision-making process in neighbourhood design, including climate change considerations;
- How the RISE project is working with stakeholders to better understand how the RISE Scorecard can be applied to better inform decisions related to blue-green infrastructure in developments;
- Equity issues related to blue-green infrastructure;
- Incentives for encouraging blue-green infrastructure in developments, such as green development standards; and,
- How blue-green infrastructure can contribute to community resilience when faced with climate change challenges.
Finally, as is tradition on The Resilient Futures podcast, Michael and Adam were each invited to share a haiku about their research.
An aerial view of Melbourne, Australia. Photo credit: Tiff Ng on Pexels.
About the podcast:
The Resilient Futures Podcast is dedicated to exploring the subject of resilience across a range of contexts and fields, including infrastructure, climate change, natural hazards, cyber security, public health, personal health and well-being, supply chains, and social and/or community resilience. The role of nature in supporting system resilience is one of multiple foundational themes that also include systems thinking, interdisciplinarity, integrative solutions, and fostering ideas across sectors and perspectives.
About the host:
Dr. Alysha Helmrich is an Assistant Professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Georgia. She labels herself as an ‘urban systems engineer’ with a BS and MS in Environmental and Ecological Engineering from Purdue University and a PhD in Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering from Arizona State University. Her research is focused on urban resilience and navigating periods of stability and instability.