Canada

This collection of good practices shows how building the capacity of local institutions is key to sustaining disaster risk reduction, and demonstrates the immediate impact of local and national political commitments.

Canadian assessment of natural hazards project, ICLR research paper series – number 48:

This document aims to inform people about the risks they face, some of the ways to adapt to them and actions that can be taken to reduce vulnerability to them. It is

Global environmental change, volume 20, issue 1, February 2010, pages 177-191, Adaptive capacity to global change in Latin America, doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2009.10.008:

This paper identifies and examines how policy intervention can help Canada's Inuit

This document urges prompt and vigorous action for developing a strategy and implementing early measures that will facilitate adaptation to climate change in Ontario. It identifies many areas where adaptive measures and policies are already underway or

Environmental Research Letters, no. 5, 2010:

This article systematically reviews and synthesizes scientific and gray literature publications to identify and characterize the nature of climate change vulnerability in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region of

Environmental Research Letters, no. 4, 2009:

This paper argues that, in order to prevent changes which will be dangerous for Inuit, a new policy discourse on climate change is required for Arctic regions—one that focuses on adaptation. The paper

Global environmental change, volume 16, issue 2, May 2006, pages 145-160, doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2005.11.007:

This paper develops a vulnerability-based approach to characterize the human implications of climate change in Arctic Bay, Canada. It focuses

This study argues that ecological watershed management has the potential to be a critical climate change adaptation strategy in Manitoba, a region of Canada that is projected to experience even more variable rainfall extremes. The book presents the case