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Title: Flood Risk Mapping for Community Assessment in PEI
Keywords: Coastal Flooding, Community Assessment, Inland Flooding
Project Need: Communities in Prince Edward Island experience occasional coastal (storm surge) and inland flooding (heavy rainfall). These events often result in damage to public and private infrastructure....
Project Benefits: Mapping areas at risk from coastal and inland flooding could help identify areas of concern and contribute to planning, design and maintenance efforts to minimize impacts.
Type: project profile

Title: Community Guidebook on Socioeconomic Scenarios
Keywords: Community Assessment
Project Need: Climate and socio-economic scenarios are essential for impact assessments and adaptation planning. Climate data and scenarios provide information about the potential frequency and severity of...
Project Benefits: This guidebook will help communities appreciate how climate and other stressors interact with one another to exacerbate or reduce community risks. This helps communities to prepare comprehensive...
Type: project profile

Title: Municipal Preparedness for Climate Change in Nova Scotia: Evaluating Municipal Capacity to Respond to Climate Change through Adaptation
Keywords: Community Assessment
Project Need: Planning for climate adaptation by municipalities will require revision of existing and/or development of new policy and regulations. An ACAS study in 2010 identified what might be relevant to...
Project Benefits: The work builds on the previous work carried out on municipal policies. As such it contributes to the building of knowledge on policies and regulations in Nova Scotia. The case studies will provide...
Type: project profile

Title: An Evaluation of Social Vulnerability and Social Assets at Risk to Climate Change Impacts in Three Nova Scotian ACAS Communities
Keywords: Community Assessment
Project Need: Social assets are the physical, social (e.g. governance, mechanisms that facilitate social relations), cultural and economic attributes that support community life and are valued for that support...
Project Benefits: The project will contribute to the development of methodology and approaches by which impacts on infrastructure can be assessed by municipalities in Nova Scotia. The analyses will contribute to...
Type: project profile

Title: Economic and Demographic Projections for Nova Scotia and Some ACAS Communities
Keywords: Community Assessment
Project Need: Climate and socio-economic projections are essential for impact assessments and adaptation planning. Climate data and scenarios provide information about the potential frequency and severity of...
Project Benefits: Allows decision makers and analysts to better understand how different socio-economic trends affect community adaptive capacity and risk. With this understanding, decision makers can better...
Type: project profile

Title: Community Vulnerability Assessment in Prince Edward Island
Keywords: Community Assessment
Project Need: Most communities in Atlantic Canada have not considered climate change in their day-to-day operations. Communities are concerned about climate change but lack the resources to assess and address...
Type: project profile

Title: Climate Scenario Development for ACAS Communities in Nova Scotia
Keywords: Community Assessment
Project Need: One of the prime questions facing all decision makers is that of understanding what the climate and the environment will be like in the future. This requirement applies at the global, regional and...
Project Benefits: The project will provide background and information for wider usage in both Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. It will contribute to a wider set of guidelines/tools developed under the ACAS...
Type: project profile

Title: Municipality of the District of Lunenburg: A Case Study in Climate Change Adaptation
Keywords: Community Assessment
Project Need: The Municipality of the District of Lunenburg is one of 13 Nova Scotia municipalities that has participated in the Atlantic Climate Adaptation Solutions (ACAS) initiative. It was recognized that...
Project Benefits: The information and findings of the studies will be useful to the Municipality of the District of Lunenburg in the development of its Municipal Climate Change Action Plan and in building adaptive...
Type: project profile

Title: Dykelands Infastructure Assessment-Tantramar/ Projet concernant les terres endiguées de Tantramar
Keywords: Outreach/Education, Case Studies, Inland Flooding, Sea Level Rise, Infrastructure, Community Assessment
Project Need: Property and agricultural lands at risk due to inland and marine flooding and erosion, especially in relation to dyke flood protection structures.
Type: project profile

Title: Increasing the Capacity of Nova Scotia Municipalities to Prepare Adaptation Focused Municipal Climate Change Action Plans
Keywords: Community Assessment
Project Need: As a requirement for the 2010 – 2015 Gas Tax Agreement, municipalities will be required to prepare and submit to Service Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations (SNSMR) a Municipal Climate Change...
Project Benefits: This project is envisaged to have numerous benefits including amongst others: Identification of gaps and challenges to be faced by Nova Scotian municipalities in the preparation of MCCAPs; Improved...
Type: project profile

Title: Community Vulnerability Assessment Tool
Keywords: Community Assessment
Project Need: There are many small, rural communities across Newfoundland and Labrador that are at risk to impacts from climate change. Many of those communities lack capacity to tackle climate change issues on...
Project Benefits: Development of a Vulnerability Assessment Tool that is tailored to small, rural communities.
Type: project profile

Title: Improving the Effectiveness of Climate Change and Adaptation Visualization Techniques Targeted Towards Decision-Makers and Citizens
Keywords: Community Assessment
Project Benefits: The project will provide insights into approaches by which transfer of climate adaptation information is best disseminated to decision-makers. It will contribute to the development of material that...
Type: project profile

Title: Inventory of the Physical Infrastructure at Risk of Flooding due to Climate Change-Induced Sea Level Incursion in Three Nova Scotian ACAS Communities
Keywords: infrastructure, Community Assessment
Project Need: Development of climate adaptation strategies, and subsequent decisions on which are the best options to pursue, require a quantifiable understanding of the infrastructure that is at risk due to...
Project Benefits: The project will contribute to the development of methodology and approaches by which impacts on infrastructure can be assessed by municipalities in Nova Scotia. The analyses will contribute to...
Type: project profile

Title: Yarmouth: A Case Study in Climate Change Adaptation
Keywords: Community Assessment
Project Need: The Town of Yarmouth and the Municipality of the District of Yarmouth, located on the southwest coast of Nova Scotia, Canada are two of 13 Nova Scotia municipalities that have participated in the...
Project Benefits: The information and findings of the studies are immediately useful to the two participant municipalities as they develop their Municipal Climate Change Action Plans and build adaptive capacity...
Type: project profile

Title: Assessment of Community Preparedness in ACAS Communities: Public Survey
Keywords: Community Assessment
Project Need: Understanding public perceptions of climate change, impacts and risks helps decision makers to assess how closely public opinion matches scientific findings and what efforts, if any, may be needed...
Project Benefits: Better understanding of public perceptions on climate change, impact concerns and adaptation preferences. With this understanding, decision makers can better prioritize and design appropriate...
Type: project profile

Title: Pilot Project for the Community Vulnerability Assessment Tool
Keywords: Community Assessment
Project Need: This project is designed to pilot the Community Vulnerability Assessment Tool in 6 communities across the Province. After developing an assessment tool it was important to get direct community...
Project Benefits: The Community Vulnerability Assessment Tool will be more useful to communities if their direct feedback is incorporated into the tool content and design. While the communities will be contributing...
Type: project profile

Title: Incorporating Climate Change Adaptation into Emergency Planning at the Local Level in Nova Scotia
Keywords: Community Assessment
Project Need: As the provincial agency responsible for emergency preparedness and response, the Nova Scotia Emergency Management Office (EMO) has an important role to play in climate change adaptation. As...
Project Benefits: The project will assist in the identification of issues that are important for emergency planning by coastal communities in Nova Scotia The work will help us reach our goals and targets as outlined...
Type: project profile

Title: Climate Change Scenarios for Prince Edward Island Communities
Keywords: Sea Level Rise, Community Assessment, Coastal Flooding
Project Need: Adapting to climate change requires firm scenarios for future conditions and guidance on how to interpret and use this information. Climate scenario information is publicly available. However, the...
Project Benefits: Simplified and relevant climate change information will help local decision makers conduct adaptation planning in their communities. It will also be used to generate hazard mapping for sea level...
Type: project profile

Title: Development of Adaptation Capacity within Nova Scotia's Provincial Departments
Keywords: Community Assessment
Project Need: The ACAS project has aimed at building the capacity of regional decision-makers to address climate change issues in a selection of common (and priority) theme areas, including planning for coastal...
Project Benefits: The involvement of the targeted departments will lead to better understanding and awareness of climate change and its implications for resource management strategies, policies, and operational...
Type: project profile

Title: Development of Climate Change Adaptive Capacity in Municipalities of Nova Scotia ACAS Communities.
Keywords: Community Assessment
Project Need: Adaptation to climate change is an effort that requires action at multiple levels (international, national, regional, provincial and local). The Nova Scotia ACAS project recognized that stimulating...
Project Benefits: Each of the participating municipalities will benefit by being exposed to the information and knowledge generated by ACAS activities. In turn the experiences gained from the municipalities would be...
Type: project profile

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