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Understanding risk BC 2020 online symposium (URBC2020)

Organizer(s) Natural Resources Canada
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Join hundreds of engaged planners, engineers, policy-makers researchers, students, and citizens for a fabulous online event series Understanding Risk BC (URBC) 2020! This summer and fall, URBC 2020 is offering an amazing mix of online events that foster place-based risk reduction strategies. Each session contributes to enhancing resilience and improving disaster recovery pathways in British Columbia (BC), Canada, but not only.

With over 20 interactive online workshops and insightful webinars, URBC 2020 will explore:

  • Risk reduction ‘big moves’ to support a resilient 2050 in the Lower Mainland;
  • Advances in hazard and risk assessments for our region;
  • Coordinated governance of disaster and climate risk management in BC;
  • Grounding our resilience through Indigenous approaches to wellness;
  • Seismic risk reduction tensions and incentives;
  • Strategies to reduce Fraser River and coastal flood risk in the Lower Mainland;
  • Financial incentives for investing in risk reduction and adaptation;
  • Development in hazardous areas: challenges and opportunities;
  • And others.
Source
https://www.urbc.ca/

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Themes Climate change Risk identification and assessment Disaster risk management
Country and region Canada Americas

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