The Town of Yarmouth and the Municipality of the District of Yarmouth, located on the southwest coast of Nova Scotia, Canada (Figure 1) are two of 13 Nova Scotia municipalities that participated in...
This section presents 25 and 100 year sea level rise and extreme water level scenarios for the coastal areas of the Town of Yarmouth and the Municipality of the District of Yarmouth that have been...
Coastal communities need to be aware of the extent that areas might be at risk to flooding from storms and long-term sea-level rise. Unfortunately, the current detail of elevation information for...
The purpose of this project was to determine the extent of various coastal flood levels for the five ACAS case study communities around the province (Fig. 1). In addition to producing the flood...
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...
Researchers have observed that, throughout both the developing and developed world, the impacts of natural hazards are unequal: the most severe consequences are on underprivileged people and areas....
The purpose of this project was to identify capacity within the Town of Yarmouth to respond proactively to coastal impacts of climate change induced sea-level rise and more frequent extreme weather...
Social assets can be anything or anywhere in a community that residents value, that residents see as important, or that increase residents’ enjoyment of their community. Social value adds an...
The commercial fishery combined with the aquaculture industry is worth approximately a billion dollars to Nova Scotia’s economy. Perhaps the most obvious symbols of the importance of these...
Project Benefits
Improved knowledge and information on the potential impacts of climate change on infrastructure relevant to the fishery and aquaculture industries. Advances in methodology for assessing the...
This project identifies the types and amount of hard and soft infrastructure at risk in the Town of Yarmouth and the Municipality of the District of Yarmouth due to inundation and flooding from...
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...
The Town of Yarmouth is a small coastal municipality within which climate plays a major role in the day to day operations of most social and business activities.
