| Title | Five Municipal Case Studies on Adapting to Climate Change for Professional Planners / Cinq études de cas sur les moyens d'adaptation au changement climatique à l'intention des urbanistes |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
supersedes any previous licences. |
| Author | Hill, P R ; Mate,
D J |
| Source | Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 6180, 2011, 190 pages, https://doi.org/10.4095/289255  Open Access |
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| Year | 2011 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | open file |
| Lang. | English; French |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | New Brunswick; Quebec; Alberta; British Columbia |
| NTS | 21I; 21P; 35J; 103F; 103J; 103G; 103K; 92G; 82I; 82J; 82O; 82P |
| Area | Calgary; Delta; Salluit; Graham Island; Gulf of St. Lawrence |
| Lat/Long WENS | -115.0000 -113.0000 51.5000 50.5000 |
| Lat/Long WENS | -133.5000 -131.5000 54.5000 53.0000 |
| Lat/Long WENS | -123.5000 -122.5000 49.5000 49.0000 |
| Lat/Long WENS | -76.0000 -75.0000 62.5000 62.0000 |
| Lat/Long WENS | -67.0000 -64.0000 48.0000 46.0000 |
| Subjects | environmental geology; engineering geology; hydrogeology; surficial geology/geomorphology; Nature and Environment; climate; climate effects; planning; urban planning; groundwater; groundwater resources;
coastal environment; coastal erosion; coastal management; permafrost; freezing ground; ground ice; ground temperatures; sea level changes; sea level fluctuations; Climate change |
| Illustrations | photographs; location maps; schematic diagrams |
| Program | Climate Change Geoscience |
| Released | 2011 10 13 |
| Abstract | From 2002 to 2006, the Earth Sciences Sector of Natural Resources Canada implemented a program entitled "Reducing Canada's Vulnerability to Climate Change". Within this program, one project, "Municipal
Case Studies: the planning process and climate change" aimed to generate scientific knowledge on a sample of the major climate change impacts facing Canadian communities. One of the desired outcomes of this project was that professional planners
would use geoscientific information in planning for climate change. The case studies were selected to address issues such as water resource depletion, coastal erosion due to higher sea levels, and permafrost melting. In order to make the results of
the case studies accessible to the planning community, City Spaces Consulting Ltd., a planning consulting firm based in Victoria, British Columbia, was contracted to produce summary reports of the five case studies and draw out the planning
implications of the results.
This Open File presents these summary reports in both official languages. We would like to acknowledge the contributions of the numerous scientific collaborators and community participants in these studies that are
listed in the individual reports. Natural Resources Canada scientists led two of the case studies (Calgary: Steve Grasby; Delta: Phil Hill). The other three were led by the University of Victoria (Graham Island: Ian Walker), Université Laval
(Salluit: Michel Allard) and Environment Canada (New Brunswick coast: Réal Daigle) with NRCan scientist participation. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 289255 |
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