The COVID-19 outbreak has revealed multiple vulnerabilities and gaps in community systems, presenting planners and decision makers with the significant challenge of developing their communities in ways that address these vulnerabilities and increase local resilience.
Presentations
Covid-19 and climate change: community vulnerability, sustainability, and the integration imperative
Date: Dec 2020
Event: 4th Healthy City Design 2020 International Congress
Date: Mar 2019
Event: Scenarios Forum 2019: Forum on Scenarios for Climate and Societal Futures
Date: Jan 2019
Event: Fifteenth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability
Community engagement and participation is a necessary component of effective integrated community planning and sustainable development. Accordingly, tools used to support planning efforts, such as community systems models, should also incorporate participatory processes in their design and application.
Date: Oct 2018
Event: The 2018 Meeting the Climate Change Challenge Learning Exchange
This presentation was part of the 2018 Meeting the Climate Change Challenge (MC3) Learning Exchange. Alastair Moore discusses the Assessment Framework developed for the MC3
Date: Oct 2018
Event: The 2018 Meeting the Climate Change Challenge Learning Exchange
This presentation was part of the 2018 Meeting the Climate Change Challenge (MC3) Learning Exchange. Dr. François Jost presents on BC local government reporting under the Climate Action Revenue incentive Program (CARIP).
Date: Oct 2018
Event: The 2018 Meeting the Climate Change Challenge Learning Exchange
This presentation was part of the 2018 Meeting the Climate Change Challenge (MC3) Learning Exchange. It shares two MC3 research projects, which respectively involved climate action co-benefits and decomposition analysis.
Date: Oct 2018
Event: The 2018 Meeting the Climate Change Challenge Learning Exchange
This presentation was part of the 2018 Meeting the Climate Change Challenge (MC3) Learning Exchange. Dr. Ann Dale discusses the outcomes from the second phase of the Meeting the Climate Change Challenge (MC3) project.
Date: Oct 2018
Event: The 2018 Meeting the Climate Change Challenge Learning Exchange
This presentation was part of the 2018 Meeting the Climate Change Challenge (MC3) Learning Exchange. Dr. John Robinson discusses the outcomes from the first phase of the Meeting the Climate Change Challenge (MC3) project.
Date: Sep 2018
Event: Prairie Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers (PCAG) 2018 Annual Meeting
Sustainable community development requires integrated approaches to planning that recognize how local policy and land use can affect interconnected aspects of human wellbeing and the environment. Systems modelling exercises can support integrated planning because they can elucidate relationships and outcomes of social and physical infrastructure decisions.
Date: Apr 2018
Event: Tenth International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Responses
Engaging in climate action through integrated sustainability strategies can yield benefits for communities in a more effective way than through compartmentalized approaches. Such strategies can result in co-benefits, that is, community benefits that occur from acting on climate change that extend beyond mitigation and adaptation.