By Jack Rozdilsky and Aaida Mamuji Since the first recorded case of COVID-19 in Canada on January 25, 2020, the first ten months of the pandemic have taken the lives of over 10,000 Canadians. The nation is currently besieged with autumn waves of commun …
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Lessons for leaders from New Zealand’s COVID-19 response
By Dr. Suze Wilson Since the beginning of the current global pandemic, New Zealand has twice completely halted all community transmission of COVID-19. This result places its residents in the privileged position of having largely normal daily lives and …
Hybrid Infrastructures: A Greenlandic case study
By Elaina Keppler and Charlotte Lin Pedersen Summary How could a hybrid design framework that integrates infrastructure, landscape and social practices together offer an alternative response to planning for Greenland’s uncertain future in the face of a …
Understanding trade-offs in post-disaster reconstruction
By Heidi Tuhkanen Development and disaster risk reduction policies and actions are essential for global goals such as sustainable development and reducing societal risks. However, they are often seen as being at odds with each other, rather than mutual …
Tracing and unsettling path dependency: Creating space for Indigenous knowledge in river management
By Meg Parsons, Johanna Nalau, Roa Petra Crease, Karen Fisher, and Cilla Brown Summary Tracing and unsettling path dependency: Creating space for Indigenous knowledge in river management Introduction The impacts of climate change and intensified develo …
A long-term outlook on flood losses
By Dominik Paprotny Summary: Growth in flood losses in Europe can be explained by growing exposure, while vulnerability is shown to decline with economic development. Lost in perception The common perception of flood losses is that they are growing and …
Diversification of flood risk management modes: Lessons from Europe
By Dries Hegger Summary: Resilient flood governance: link water managers, planners, contingency agencies and private parties; build on previous approaches. The European project STAR-FLOOD has investigated efforts to diversify flood risk management (FRM …
Creating a method to identify lessons learned from flood events in Quebec
By Isabelle Thomas and Catherine P. Perras Summary: This article presents a research project in which Experience Feedback from flood events is collected in order to identify lessons learned for flood risk management. Flooding in Vaudreuil-Dorion, May 1 …