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Adaptation solutions for BC and Metro Vancouver 1. What do adaptation measures look like? already happening future solutions 2. Resilience 3. Low-carbon attractive resilient communities Heat mapping data: Natural Resources Canada

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Adaptation solutions

for BC and Metro Vancouver

  • 1. What do adaptation

measures look like?

  • already happening
  • future solutions
  • 2. Resilience
  • 3. Low-carbon attractive

resilient communities

Heat mapping data: Natural Resources Canada Visualization, John Danahy, U of Toronto

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Adaptation to higher temperatures

  • Technological Solutions:

– Better insulated buildings – Reflective roads/walls – Built in cooling systems (not AC!)

  • Administrative Solutions

– Weather warning systems – Encourage tree planting – Heat-waves plan for vulnerable

  • Personal Behavioural

Solutions

– Maintain hydration – Wear less formal clothing – Change working hours – Enjoy it!

Courtesy of Chris West, UKCIP

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Risk of debris flooding Increase through MPB desease Climate Change: Increase of winter precipitation

Kimberley: Fire, flooding, and heat risks

Visualization: Olaf Schroth/Courtney Miller, CALP

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June 9, 2009 Community Open House

Kimberley Climate Adaptation Project Visualization Presentation

Adaptation and Mitigation: Resilient low-carbon

  • ptions

Image credit: Miller/Muir Owen/Pond/CALP

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Adapting to What? NORTHSHORE VULNERABILITY TO CLIMATE CHANGE

  • High elevations, steep slopes
  • Sensitive recreation and water

resources

  • High rainfall
  • Extensive forest areas
  • Fragile salmon habitat/riparian ecosystems
  • Critical stream flows and high run-off
  • Low-lying shoreline areas
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Recognizing Local Adaptation

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ADAPTATION SOLUTIONS Stormwater swale, 15th Street, West Vancouver

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West Vancouver’s climate change planning:

  • Beach adaptation

(& ocean heat exchange)

Photos: Stephen Jenkins, District of West Vancouver

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Current

Visualizations: David Flanders, CALP

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2050

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2100

2100

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2100

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How to Adapt? Assessing 3 scenarios:

Hold the Line Managed Retreat Build Up

Delta Regional Adaptation Collaborative (RAC) Policy Report (Barron et al., 2012)

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Hold the line – 1.2m

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Hold the line – 1.9m

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Build Up

Ladner Dike View

1.2 m Sea Level Rise, Year ~2100

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

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Build Up

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Resilience

– ability to absorb disturbances while retaining the same basic structure and ways of functioning; capacity to adapt.

Credit: Megan Voigt, UBC Landscape Architecture

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Adaptation to crop suitability

Source: Royal BC Museum/Richard Hebda

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Developed by Professor Nicholas Coops and Rory Tooke, UBC for District of North Vancouver

Online interactive maps of solar roof potential

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Northshore storyline: a high-carbon, high-risk aesthetic

Existing Housing Mosquito Creek Grouse Mountain

Mosquito Creek

High Risk of Blow Down Mod- High Forest Fuel Potential

Visualizations: David Flanders, CALP

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2050

Expansion of homes at higher elevations Burnt areas

Kelowna, 2004

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Renewable Energy Capacity Mapping Example: Northshore biomass and micro-hydro

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Low-carbon, Attractive, Resilient Communities High-carbon, nondescript, vulnerable communities

Visualizations: David Flanders, CALP

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Lo-CAR sustainability:

  • 1. Low-Carbon

– 80% reductions of GHG emissions by 2050 – Hard target

  • 2. Attractive/acceptable/‘awesome’

– Sense of identity, character/fit, and quality of life

  • 3. Resilient

– Adapt to climate disruption, high energy prices, etc., while maintaining core functions

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Visualization: Jon Laurenz, CALP

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Local food market Live / work development 60% reduction in home energy consumption Multifamily suites Community gardening Electric commuter vehicles Smaller, efficient cars Increased public transit Stormwater drainage swale Passive solar conservatory

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How much money do we want to spend to safeguard our community?

Photo: Mark van Manen, Vancouver Sun

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Resources:

Earthscan/Routledge book

www.routledge.com/books/details/97818440782 02/

Delta RAC website: http://www.delta-adaptation-bc.ca Visualization Training Modules: http://www.delta-adaptation-

bc.ca/category/training-modules/ www.calp.forestry.ubc.ca/publications

Visioning Guidance Manual (Pond et al, 2010)

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THINK BIG!

Daylighting the Cheong Gye Cheon in Seoul, South Korea. Courtesy of Dr. In-Keun Lee.