Climate Adaptation
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Panel Discussion
Briefing Note
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This event took place on Thursday March 4, 2021
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Presented by the MacEachen Institute and the .
With over 13,000 km of coastline and more than 70% of the population living within 20 km of the coast, Nova Scotia鈥檚 population, infrastructure, cultural heritage, and economy are highly vulnerable to sea-level rise, flooding, hurricanes, and storm surges. This extreme weather is becoming more frequent and intense due to climate change.
How should the province adapt to this new reality and how should communities increase their resiliency to withstand these disasters? What are some ecological, financial, governance, and disaster resilience perspectives?
About the Speakers
Robin Cox
Dr. Robin Cox advances leadership in climate and disaster resilience. Drawing on design thinking and open-learning approaches, Cox is cultivating climate action leadership through an innovative open-learning master program, the M.A. in Climate Action Leadership (RRU). As the Director of the ResilienceByDesign lab (RbD) at Royal Roads University, she designs and oversees a diverse applied research agenda focused on building leadership for climate action and disaster risk reduction.听
Cox is currently directing the $2M Adaptation Learning Network to increase leadership and capacity among professionals working on the front lines of climate change across British Columbia; and a Tri-Council grant funded project that will build design thinking skills and action projects with youth and their communities in British Columbia and Puerto Rico.听
As a globally recognized expert, Dr. Cox has authored dozens of peer-reviewed publications, including the forthcoming Climate Adaptation Competency Framework. She speaks frequently at conferences and in the press about the human dimensions of climate change and disasters, and the need to make both resilience and climate action mainstream for a secure future.
Patricia Manuel
Patricia Manuel is Professor of Planning at 国民彩票. She also teaches in the Coastal and Marine Management program, Akureyri University and the University Centre of the Westfjords, Iceland. As a geographer and environmental planner focusing on coastal regions, Patricia鈥檚 research integrates natural and social systems through policy and plan-making. She explores community-level capacity for climate change adaptation, and governance and planning systems linking land and sea.
Patricia serves on national committees seeking to build capacity in climate action, including the Climate Centre for Client Services听Advisory Panel (ECCC), the听National Adaptation Assessment Advisory Committee, and (formerly) the National Coastal Assessment Advisory Committee (NRCan).听
Patricia is a member of the Licensed Professional Planners Association of Nova Scotia, the Atlantic Planners Institute, and the Canadian Institute of Planners.听
Rodrigo Menafra (moderator)
Rodrigo Menafra is the Managing Director at the