Climate Change Research: Community Planning

Planners and decision-makers look at many elements when planning for the well-being of their communities. To ensure the environmental, economic, and social sustainability of Canadian communities, climate change effects must be integrated into planning activities. Informed by geoscience and geomatics information, these research activities will help build climate change planning capacity into Canadian communities

Current Activities

• Enhancing the Planning Capacity for the Sustainable Development of Northern Communities
• Coastal Vulnerability in the Halifax Regional Municipality
• Coastal Vulnerability in the Greater Vancouver Regional District
• Heat Island Impacts in the Greater Toronto Area
• Capacity Building for Planners
• Visualization for Communication and Consideration of Climate Change Impacts
• The State and Evolution of Canada’s Glaciers
• State and Evolution of Canadian Permafrost
• National Assessments and Information for Managing Water Dependant Sectors in a Changing Climate
• Rapid Climate Changes and Extreme Weather Events on the Pacific Coast

Agriculture / Energy / Transportation and Infrastructure /
Ecosystem Management / Community Planning