| Titre | Concept of a national land-use guide for risk reduction |
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| Auteur | Struik, B |
| Source | 4th Annual Canadian Risk and Hazards Network Symposium: abstracts and biographical sketches; 2007 p. 13 |
| Liens | Online - En ligne
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| Année | 2007 |
| Séries alt. | Secteur des sciences de la Terre, Contribution externe 20070047 |
| Éditeur | CRHNet |a Canada (Canada) |
| Réunion | 4th Annual Canadian Risk and Hazards Network Symposium; Vancouver, BC; CA; Novembre 6-8, 2007 |
| Document | livre |
| Lang. | anglais |
| Media | papier; en ligne; numérique |
| Formats | pdf (Adobe® Reader®) |
| Programme | Réduction des risques dus aux aléas naturels |
| Résumé | (disponible en anglais seulement)
This presentation outlines the nature and benefits of a national land-use guide for reducing the risk from geological hazards. Land zoning
decisions have
increased vulnerability to natural hazards, in part through increased development pressure, and the difficulty of access to
hazard knowledge. Such a guide would incorporate simple best practices for hazard mitigation into zoning and permitting. A
national
guide would provide the foundation for community guides. It would provide clear, understandable choices created from a vast array of
current knowledge about (principally) geoscience, technology, engineering, land-use policy and
sociology. It would create a knowledge
pull, instituting a system that revamps the guide every five to ten years to ensure the guide uses current best knowledge and practises,
much as the National Building Code does in Canada today. Such a
knowledge pull for hazard risk reduction, requires institutions to
produce and maintain the guide (involving land-use planners, engineers and geoscientists), and institutions to develop and maintain the
instruments for researching and mapping
risks and hazards. A sample instrument in hazard assessment would be an expanded network of
hazard monitors linked to a single and open data source that is compatible with the Canadian Geospatial Knowledge Infrastructure.
Benefits of a guide
are to reduce the overall complexity, and therefore expense, of land-use decision-making, increase the use of best
practice risk-reducing decisions and to share nationally local best practices. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 223732 |
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