Local-scale Planning for Climate Resilience

December

• Call for Abstracts for the Session "Sustainable Solid Waste Management in the Arctic: Governance, Innovation, and Local Solutions"

November

• October Highlights from UArctic Thematic Networks

October

• Publication: "Investigating the extent and quality of health-focused climate adaptation planning: Insights from Western Canadian communities"
• New Publication from the Thematic Network on Local-scale Planning: Adapting to Environmental Hazards in Norway

July

• Article: Why history matters to planning: Climate change, colonialism & maladaptation
• Article: Factors contributing to climate adaptation lag in practice: Insights from local and territorial government interactions

June

• Thematic Networks Success Story: "Supporting local resilience through education, collaboration and research dissemination"

March

• Seminar: "Exploring Climate Adaptation in Northern Communities"
• Seminar: "Visualizing the Landscape of Tribal Communities: A Context for Working in Rural Alaska"

February

• Seminar: "Global Challenges, Local Struggles: Dissecting Arctic climate change and Indigenous Peoples adaptation in Nunatsiavut"

January

• Local planning for climate induced relocation: A systematic review

• Landscape of Tribal communities: Context for working in rural Alaska
• Sustainable municipal solid waste management: A comparative analysis of enablers and barriers to advance governance in the Arctic
• Nicole Bonnett Awarded Scholarship for Arctic Research in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
• Bolstering community resilience through health-focused climate change adaptation: moving from talk to action in Western Canadian communities
• New Publication: Urban resilience through ecosystem services in Edmonton, Canada: An assessment of gaps and recommendations
• Workshop and Panel: "Circumpolar Education Program on Environmental Change and Resilience" at the Arctic Congress Bodø 2024, Norway
• Climate change adaptation planning: Breaking down barriers through comprehensive educational frameworks
• Online talk: "Captive in a prone area? Landowner responsibility for preventing disaster risk in the built environment in Norway"

• Speaker Series: "Arctic Community-driven Education Program: From Research to Impact"
• Publication: "Key elements of defensible space land use bylaw provisions in wildland-urban interface municipalities of Alberta, Canada"
• Online lecture: "Challenges and Solutions for Solid Waste Management in Urban Arctic"
• Publication: "Climate change adaptation: How short-term political priorities trample public well-being"
• Publication: Denial and discretion as a governance process: How actor perceptions of risk and responsibility hinder adaptation to climate change
• Graduate Seminar on Climate Change and Resilience in the North, April 19, 2023
• Not so Poles Apart: The Arctic and the Third Pole in Asia
• Graduate Seminar on Climate Change and Resilience in the North, February 27, 2023

• Graduate Seminar on Climate Change and Resilience in the North
• Fostering resilience and adapting to climate change in the Canadian North
• A community-driven education program on climate change in the Arctic
• Online session: "Implementing sustainability at the local level in Alaska"
• Arctic and northern community governance: The need for local planning and design as resilience strategy
• Engaging Northern Communities using Arts-based Methods: Talk and Screening

• Thematic Networks interviews series, part 6: Climate change
• UArctic welcomes seven new Thematic Networks
• Local-scale Climate Resilience seminar series focuses on the climate change impacts and responses in the Arctic

• Local-scale Climate Resilience Seminar on March 17, 2020, University of Alberta
• Three New Thematic Networks established in 2019

• UAlberta scientist to lead new Thematic Network on Local-Scale Planning, Climate Change, and Resilience