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Displaying 15 of about 216 resultsGeneva, 20 May -- After announcing last week that Geneva would take part in the United Nations "Making Cities Resilient" campaign, Pierre Maudet, the incoming Mayor of Geneva as of 1 June, said the city would share experiences with other local governments seeking to manage risk.
Mr. Maudet made that comment at a meeting convened by the United Nations s…
As Victoria, British Columbia, commits to removing obstacles to green roof installations and Somerville, Massachusetts mandates their inclusion in new buildings, a Seoul case study underscores the positive social and environmental outcomes of such policy changes.In January, Victoria councillors unanimously voted to explore ways to help residents install…
In 2017 and again in 2019, Quebec was hit by major floods. The material and human cost of those disasters prompted the Quebec government to conduct an in-depth analysis of weather-event management.
Since then, the relevant government ministries—Public Security, Environment and the Fight Against Climate Change, and Municipal Affairs and Housing—have ini…
Due North, is an assessment of the costs of climate change to infrastructure across all of Northern Canada. Northern Canada faces a double threat of already- inadequate infrastructure in a rapidly warming climate. Northerners currently lack access to safe and reliable infrastructure that people in the rest of Canada take for granted. The warming cl…
In the fall of 1922, the city of Toronto sent 85 surplus streetcars to Haileybury and other northern Ontario towns to help house thousands of desperate people who had lost their homes to wildfires.
Known as the Great Fire, it burned nearly 1,700 square kilometres of the area — including the town of Haileybury. It killed 43 people and caused m…
Summary Statement of Responsibilities
Ensure overall guidance and support to the local Red Cross Red Crescent National Society (NS) to implement Comprehensive Disaster Management (DM) Programs (Community Based Risk Reduction, Preparedness for Response and response operations) including development of strategic plan/framework on DM.
Duties Applicable t…
The 5th Conference of the International Society for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRiM 2014) will take place at Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, from 30th October - 1st November 2014.
The theme of the conference is "Building Disaster Resilient Communities".
The focus of the conference builds on opportunities through science and tec…
Vancouver City Council has adopted a comprehensive climate change adaptation strategy to ensure that Vancouver remains a liveable and resilient city in the face of climate change.
The landmark strategy recommends nine primary actions and over 50 supporting actions that the City of Vancouver can take to incorporate climate change adaptation measures into…
This memorandum of understanding provides for the possibility of mutual assistance among the jurisdictions of Canada and United States entering into this agreement in managing any emergency or disaster when the affected jurisdiction or jurisdictions ask for assistance, whether arising from natural disaster, technological hazard, man-made disaster or civ…
Flooding is a challenge of financial and social concern affecting a growing sector of the Canadian population. Multiple factors affect flood risk, such as a general increase in population density in urban and sub-urban centres, the loss of natural landscape impacting all provinces, growth in the impermeability of primarily city landscapes, all of which…
Report of the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs
This report contains the proceedings of the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs of the House of Commons of Canada's Parliament. It reports on the efforts of the Committee to study the response to and long-term impacts of wildfires in First Nation communities duri…
The purpose of this document is to introduce the Federal Flood Mapping Guidelines Series documents and to provide a framework for how each fits into the overall flood mapping life cycle. Specifically, this document will provide a brief history of past and present flood mapping efforts in Canada, a brief summary of flood mapping roles and responsibilitie…
Having now become home to seven of the most costliest catastrophes in Canadian history (Morgan 2016), the Province of Alberta has the opportunity to become an international leader in emergency disaster management (EDM) protocols by incorporating the safe evacuation and reunification/rehoming of companion animals into its official emergency preparedness…
Resilient Systems, Resilient Communities emerges from the University of Alberta interdisciplinary research network, Intersections of Sustainability, which focuses on the relationship between water governance, climate change, and community futures. The aim of the research network is to bring a whole-system approach to developing critical, solutions-drive…
This report is a product of two expert workshops that were held in Toronto and Ottawa focusing on climate change adaptation as a set of actions and their governance in Canada. Particular attention was given to Canada-wide strategies for adaptation, risk reduction, and the intersection between them.
This report provides not only a state-of-play on adapt…