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Human-managed streams in Canada and the U.S. found to have significantly different flow patterns compared to streams in natural watersheds
This study examined whether catastrophic flooding affects Canadian residential real estate (house sold price, days on market, number of listings) and mortgage markets (arrears and deferrals).
New findings show that over the past eight years, catastrophic flooding in communities resulted in an average 8.2 % reduction in the final sale price of houses, and 44.3 % reduction in the number of houses listed for sale
Indigenous communities are at higher risk of hardship from climate-change-caused flooding because of pre-existing socioeconomic vulnerability, a new study shows.
This report describes how Canada can scale-up the use of nature-based solutions, in tandem with grey infrastructure, to protect communities along the East and West coastlines.
Practical solutions to limit the financial and social costs of disasters.
This paper presents Climate Risk Matrices as a practical tool for institutional investors to integrate physical climate risk into portfolio management.
This paper evaluates the flood preparedness of fourteen cities spread across the ten Canadian provinces.
Voluntary Commitments
The Sendai Framework Commitments (SFVC) online platform serves to incentivize stakeholders to inform the public about their work, to provide a vehicle for sharing commitments and initiatives and for motivation toward the implementation of the Sendai Framework. In turn, UNDRR can monitor and take stock of the progress and impact.
University of Waterloo is involved in the following commitments:
