Natural hazards in British Columbia: an interdisciplinary and inter-institutional challenge

Slaymaker, Olav

doi:10.1007/s005310050267

Cited by 24 publications

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“…(2001), and Slaymaker (1999). One project description stated that reaching interdisciplinarity and improving the methods of interdisciplinarity as goals in their own right (see Table 5, statement 13).…”

Section: "No I Have Never Written Anything On What the Group Thinks mentioning

confidence: 98%

Integrative studies on rural landscapes: policy expectations and research practice

Tress¹,

Tress²,

Fry

2005

Landscape and Urban Planning

145

102

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Section: "No I Have Never Written Anything On What the Group Thinks mentioning

confidence: 98%

Integrative studies on rural landscapes: policy expectations and research practice

Tress¹,

Tress²,

Fry

2005

Landscape and Urban Planning

145

102

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“…However, hazard mitigation has not been a regional or provincial priority [34] and has seen a continuous reduction of federal and provincial responsibilities such as flood mapping programs, dike financing and provincial oversight of municipal land use and development.…”

Section: Triggers Of Action: the Role Of Senior Governmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate Change Adaptation and Flood Management in Metro Vancouver Regional Area: Can an Exercise in Herding Cats be Successful?

Yumagulova¹,

Vertinsky²

2017

J. sustain. dev. energy water environ. syst.

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Climate change poses novel challenges for cities, threatening long-term sustainability objectives and necessitating investments in resilience. Climate change exacerbates the challenge of identifying the range of impacts of natural hazards in terms of scale and frequency. This study focuses on climate change adaptation responses with regard to flood management in the Metro Vancouver regional area, which is the last large non-amalgamated region in Canada. It is comprised of 24 local authorities and a regional government with delegated and distributed authority for flood management and other responsibilities. The area is subject to river flooding, intense rain storms and an increasing rate of sea level rise. The study identifies mechanisms by which the municipalities make sense of the existing hazards as well as how they design and invest into responses for future risks under conditions of uncertainty. Given the geographic, demographic and socio-economic differences across municipalities in the region, the study found a diverse set of responses in planning regimes in regard to the long-term risks as well as the short-term political pressures that municipalities face. This resulted in a significant variability of planning policies and practices across the region, which could potentially reduce overall regional ability to adapt to change. The paper concludes with a discussion of measures that can be taken to strengthen the regional coordination process.

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“…The problem is not in the quantity and quality of geohazard assessments but the problem lies in the isolation of the work from broader risk perspectives and in the lack of clarity in division of responsibilities between various levels of government. Social and political priorities often trump geoscience priorities (Slaymaker 1999). The 1990s was the decade in which it was first documented that the fraction of land deliberately changed by humankind was approaching 50%…”

Section: Policy and Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…It seems clear that land use change on this scale requires an integration of the social, economic and cultural causes of land changes with evaluation of its biophysical nature and consequences (Hewitt 1989, 2006, Vitousek et al 1997. Geohazards are best considered within a broader context of management for sustainable development, which often leads to a focus on decision making under conditions of uncertainty (Slaymaker 1999).…”

Section: Policy and Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

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A Review of Three Significant Geohazards in the Canadian Cordillera: the Case of River Floods, Debris Flows/Floods, and Debris/Rock Avalanches

Slaymaker

2016

IJGE

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Abstract:Research into sudden-onset geohazards, such as river floods, debris flows/floods and debris/rock avalanches is prominent in literature on the Canadian Cordillera. The unresolved question is the relative importance of river floods, debris flows/floods and debris/rock avalanches over shorter and longer time scales and at smaller and larger spatial scales. River flooding is the costliest geohazard at regional scale and over century time scales but debris/rock avalanches are the deadliest at individual slope scale and over seasonal time scale. In terms of work done on the landscape, debris flows/floods are the most pervasive geohazard and have a huge influence on the long-term moulding of the landscape but figure less prominently in terms of fatalities and cost. Intensified land use, such as forestry, mining, agriculture and urbanization, is the primary reason for the increase in the cost of geohazards to society over the past three decades but climate change adds further uncertainties to the assessment of future geohazards.

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Natural hazards in British Columbia: an interdisciplinary and inter-institutional challenge

Cited by 24 publications

References 9 publications

Integrative studies on rural landscapes: policy expectations and research practice

Integrative studies on rural landscapes: policy expectations and research practice

Climate Change Adaptation and Flood Management in Metro Vancouver Regional Area: Can an Exercise in Herding Cats be Successful?

A Review of Three Significant Geohazards in the Canadian Cordillera: the Case of River Floods, Debris Flows/Floods, and Debris/Rock Avalanches

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