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Developing Climate Change Capacity at the Municipal Level in Nova Scotia
To go along with the requirement that all municipalities had to prepare a Municipal Climate Change Action Plan (MCCAP), SNSMR recognized that it needed to provide some direction as to how to undertake this and what would be expected of such documents. Hence, the department decide
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Developing Climate Change Capacity at the Municipal Level in Nova Scotia Report: Appendix 1 - Municipal Climate Change Action Plan Guidebook
The purpose of this guide and the accompanying template is to help municipalities prepare Municipal Climate Change Action Plans (MCCAP) that meet the municipal obligation described in the 2010 - 2014 Municipal Funding Agreement.
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Developing Climate Change Capacity at the Municipal Level in Nova Scotia Report: Appendix 2 - Mentor’s Report for the Municipality of the County of Cumberland
The Atlantic Climate Adaptation Solutions Mentorship project engaged Mentors to work with three municipalities, the Municipality of the County of Cumberland (Cumberland County), the Town of Yarmouth and the Municipality of the District of Lunenburg. The Mentors assigned to each m
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Developing Climate Change Capacity at the Municipal Level in Nova Scotia Report: Appendix 3 - Mentor’s Report for the Municipality of the District of Lunenburg
This report details what Municipality of the District of Lunenburg has accomplished and learned during the Mentor Project.
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Developing Climate Change Capacity at the Municipal Level in Nova Scotia Report: Appendix 5 - Municipal Learnings Project
The MCCAP Assistant (the Assistant) is meant to be an easily digestible companion to the MCCAP Guidebook (Guidebook) provided by the Canada-Nova Scotia Infrastructure Secretariat and Service Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations. Hopefully, it will answer some of your questions, cl
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Development of an Urban Forest Canopy Model for input into a Lidar-based Storm Water Runoff Model for Halifax Harbour Watersheds
Urban forests play an essential role in moderating storm water and flood damage, water quality, erosion, and storm water treatment costs (Nowak, 2006).
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Economic Evaluation of Climate Change Impacts on New Brunswick-Nova Scotia Transport Corridor
A major goal of this project was to identify and evaluate all economic consequences of climate change impacts on NB/NS Transportation Corridor in order for them to be imposed later on a dynamic model to trace long-run economic consequences of these impacts. In this regard, a lit
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Extreme Waves and Wave Runup in Halifax Harbour under Climate Change Scenarios
Estimates for sea level rise in Halifax Harbour, in the context of climate change, are presented that consider three high water level scenarios, based on climate change scenarios and estimates for land subsidence, rising mean sea levels, and return period analysis of extreme even
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