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1. Research Questions

- Effectiveness of visioning process on local decision-making, to accelerate climate change responses - What are the longer-term outcomes?

- Role of networking in the GEOIDE PIV-32 project

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2. Four Case Studies across Canada

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Hold the

Line

Reinforce and Reclaim

Managed Retreat

Build Up

2.1 Delta Sea Level Rise Adaptation Project

How to Adapt?

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Managed Retreat

Canete, Barron, Flanders 2012

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Managed Retreat

Canete, Barron, Flanders 2012

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Managed Retreat

Value of Land & Buildings Agricultural Land Area Road & Dike Length

Canete, Barron, Flanders 2012

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2.2 Elbow River Watershed / Calgary

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Topography Climate data River channel data Ground water table

Total water balance Total overland flow Evapotranspiration

2006

2031

Surface roughness Leaf area index Root depth

Modeling hydrology

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Toronto: implementation

Began by visualizing heat island effect – has moved to web-mapping for solar installation potential - Waterloo

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Toronto: implementation

Visualizing the heat island effect to make large and small-scale recommendations for mitigation

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2.4 Clyde River (Arctic): Housing adaptation

UBC CALP 2012

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3.1 Collaborative Processes and Geo-Spatial Tools

Regional scale (Calgary)

City scale (Clyde River, Delta)

Building to neighborhood (Toronto)

Planning processes

Model-driven participatory scenario process

Participatory scenario process

Anticipatory design process with local residents

Geospatial tools Combination of land-use, climate, and hydrological models

Spatial vulnerability analysis, GIS and 3D visualization

Heat mapping LiDAR analysis Online tool

3. Cross-case Comparison