Water Challenges
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Drought
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Riverine flood
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Debris flow and flooding
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Wildland Interface Fire
Spotlight
A must-read report on climate change in Squamish – Lillooet:
(1) Community Risk Assessment: Squamish-Lillooet Regional District. (January, 2021). SLRD Emergency Program.
- Designed to inform SLRD communities about the hazards to which they have the greatest exposure, the risk event triggers, and potential local impacts. The CRA is meant to inform further risk reduction efforts, and emergency response and recovery plans”
Researcher Profile
Dr. Robert Newell is the Canada Research Chair (tier 2) in Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainability at Royal Roads University and a Research Associate at the Food and Agriculture Institute, University of the Fraser Valley. Newell’s research focuses on integrated planning and policy, stakeholder engagement and sustainable community development. He applies system thinking to identify relationships and tensions among critical sustainability imperatives, particularly climate change mitigation and adaptation and biodiversity conservation, and other local and regional objectives. His research often employs community-based, participatory approaches for developing knowledge and tools for supporting planning and decision-making, such as systems maps, integrated models and visualizations. Newell also teaches courses on critical sustainability issues and approaches to sustainable development.
Most recent academic article on the project (it’s open access) – https://www.facetsjournal.com/doi/full/10.1139/facets-2020-0045
All articles and reports developed from the research can be found here – https://www.crcresearch.org/spaces-places-and-possibilities#publications
Entry on this work in the Biosphere Futures project database, based out of the Stockholm Resilience Centre – https://www.biospherefutures.net/scenarios/Squamish-(British-Columbia)