Risk Gov­er­nance and Cli­mate Change

The costs and impacts of crises are sig­nif­i­cant and like­ly to increase in the com­ing years, par­tic­u­lar­ly as a result of cli­mate change. Cité-ID is inter­est­ed in improv­ing risk gov­er­nance relat­ed to cli­mate change and urban resilience to deter­mine how to both lim­it and adapt to the effects of disasters.

This research axis aims to iden­ti­fy the enabling and hin­der­ing fac­tors that influ­ence risk gov­er­nance in order to improve exist­ing ini­tia­tives. In addi­tion, it seeks to devel­op new knowl­edge about mech­a­nisms and approach­es for trans­form­ing gov­er­nance to bet­ter man­age risks in an inte­grat­ed man­ner between organizations.

Research top­ics include the gov­er­nance of dis­as­ter risks, such as floods or the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pro­jects

• Flood Risk Gov­er­nance in a Chang­ing Climate
• Gov­er­nance of flood risk in Lake Cham­plain and the Riche­lieu River
• Approach to Devel­op a Col­lab­o­ra­tive Gov­er­nance for Risk Assess­ment Gov­er­nance of Crit­i­cal Infrastructures
• Risk man­age­ment and fire pre­ven­tion at munic­i­pal level

Resources

• Fac­tors enabling or lim­it­ing adop­tion of a risk man­age­ment approach and imple­men­ta­tion of pre­ven­ta­tive mea­sures at the munic­i­pal lev­el (report)
• Report on a col­lab­o­ra­tive gov­er­nance approach to crit­i­cal sys­tems risk assessment
• Map­ping and weav­ing for urban resilience imple­men­ta­tion: A tale of two cities (arti­cle)
• Urban resilience imple­men­ta­tion: A Pol­i­cy chal­lenge and recher­ché agen­da for the 21^st cen­tu­ry (arti­cle)
• The Def­i­n­i­tion of Urban Resilience: A trans­for­ma­tion Path Towards Col­lab­o­ra­tive Urban Risk Gov­er­nance (chap­ter)
• A col­lab­o­ra­tive gov­er­nance frame­work for risk assess­ment of crit­i­cal sys­tems in a chang­ing cli­mate (arti­cle)