Journal Articles (Earth and Atmospheric Sciences)
Items in this Collection
- 2Urban planning
- 1Climate change adaptation
- 1Climate change policy
- 1Coastal communities
- 1Local government
- 1Mainstreaming
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An assessment of systems, agents, and institutions in building community resilience to climate change: A case study of Charlottetown, Canada
Download2022-01-01
Birchall, S. Jeff, MacDonald, Seghan, Bara, Nicklas N.
While climate change manifests itself as a global phenomenon, impacts are experienced most acutely at the local scale. As a result, the onus of responding to climate change impacts through planning policies and practice falls on local government decision-makers. This qualitative study, based in...
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2021-05-01
Birchall, S. Jeff, MacDonald, Seghan, Slater, Tara
As climate change progresses, local governments are being forced to find ways to adapt to worsening environmental, economic, and infrastructure impacts. The city of Fredericton, New Brunswick has a long history of river and overland flooding; however, more recent changes in local weather patterns...
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Climate change resilience in the Canadian Arctic: The need for collaboration in the face of a changing landscape
Download2019-12-17
MacDonald, Seghan, Birchall, Jeff S.
Human-induced changes to global climate have become increasingly difficult to ignore in recent years. As the frequency and severity of extreme weather events increases, the impacts on both natural and human systems are becoming difficult to manage with the current policies. In Canada, one of the...