Yarmouth: A Case Study in Climate Change Adaptation: Part 2 – Section 3 Social Asset Identification and Climate Change Impact Risk Mapping in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia | Atlantic Climate Adaptation Solutions Association

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Author(s)/Creator(s): Patricia Manuel Eric Rapaport Michaela Cochran Zoë Wollenberg
Date Issued: 2012-05-01
Publisher: Atlantic Climate Adaptation Solutions Association (ACASA)
Description: Climate change adaptation planning commonly accounts for impacts on community assets that have high economic value, such as physical infrastructure. There are also spaces and places in a community that people appreciate for functions and services not easily or directly expressed in monetary currency. Such spaces and places – natural and cultural - are referred to in this study as social assets: they may convey variety and vibrancy to a community, give a community its character, and afford opportunity to participate in community life; they are important in any way to the community, as defined by the people who live there. Social assets are the features, events, and place-based experiences that make life in a community worth living. This project had the objective of generating a mapped database of valued community social assets (as determined by residents of Yarmouth) and identifying which of those assets are at risk of exposure to climate change impacts at the coast, specifically flooding. The overlay mapping focus (valued social assets mapped against sea level rise scenarios for the Yarmouth area coast line) was the swath of LiDAR data collected for the Yarmouth coastline (See Part 1, Introduction and Background and Part 2, Section 1, Sea Level Rise Scenarios).
Type of Document: case study
Language(s) of Resource: English
Keywords: community based adaptation
Province: Nova Scotia
City/Town: Yarmouth

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