Building Resilience to Climate Change in Human Settlements

Innovation, knowledge transfer, and capacity building will be required in order to maintain the resiliency of Canadian human settlements to climate change and implement effective adaptation actions. The desired outcome of this project is that Earth Sciences Sector (ESS) information enables the identification and characterization of vulnerabilities and adaptation options by practitioners in communities and regions. This involves place-based research in regions and communities on the Pacific and Atlantic coasts, in the Arctic, and in southern Ontario.

The project works collaboratively with the Canadian Institute of Planners, and other national, provincial, territorial, and community stakeholders to integrate ESS geoscience and geomatics information into decision-making processes that build climate change planning capacity across the country.

Project Leader: David Mate

Activities:

• Capacity Building for Planners
• Coastal Vulnerability in the Halifax Regional Municipality
• Coastal Vulnerability in the Greater Vancouver Regional District
• Visualization for Communication and Consideration of Climate Change Impacts>
• Heat Island Impacts in the Greater Toronto Area
• Enhancing the Planning Capacity for Sustainable Development of Northern Communities