Current Projects
1. Policy Design for Climate-Resilient Housing
Funded through a , this project involves spatial analysis of the physical exposure of housing and property values to climate-related hazards and an evaluation of policy instruments to increase the resilience of new and existing housing in a changing climate.
2. Effective Governance Arrangements for Climate Resilient Infrastructure
Funded through a SSHRC Insight Grant, this project evaluates governance arrangements to achieve critical infrastructure (CI) resilience in a changing climate. It combines spatial analysis and comparative case studies to assess CI resilience in five sectors: health care, public safety, government services, finance and transportation.
3. Flood Risk Governance in a Changing Climate
Funded through a Network Investigator Grant from the  and a , this project analyzes the effectiveness of Canada's flood risk governance arrangements as they play out in Calgary, Halifax, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. Using climate change-adjusted flood hazard maps produced by the , our team is creating state-of-the-art 3-D visualizations of future flood risk. These are the foundation for Risk Dialogues that engage stakeholders in identifying strategies to achieve flood resilience in a changing climate.
4. Effective Property Buyout Programs to Reduce Flood Risk in a Changing Climate
Funded through a research grant from the , this project examines property buyouts as a tool to reduce flood risk and increase community resilience to climate change.
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5. Canadian Coastal Resilience Forum
The Canadian Coastal Resilience Forum (CCRF) is a community of practice focused on strengthening social resilience to natural hazards and climate change in Canada’s coastal regions.
This initiative is kindly supported by the a federally-funded Network of Centres of Excellence.
