Risk man­age­ment and fire pre­ven­tion at munic­i­pal level

This action-research project involves devel­op­ing a roadmap to facil­i­tate adop­tion of a risk man­age­ment approach and imple­men­ta­tion of pre­ven­tive mea­sures at local and region­al lev­el. The three-year project (Jan­u­ary 2019 to March 2022) rests on a col­lab­o­ra­tive effort informed by avail­able evi­dence on fire risk. 

The first step is pro­duc­tion of a meta-syn­the­sis of sci­en­tif­ic writ­ings on local lev­el risk man­age­ment approach­es around the world in order to iden­ti­fy facil­i­tat­ing and imped­ing fac­tors. Cité-ID will then under­take an analy­sis of Québec’s civ­il secu­ri­ty sys­tem, gov­er­nance mech­a­nisms, super­vi­sion and avail­able evi­dence. The aim is to doc­u­ment suc­cess­es, obsta­cles and oppor­tu­ni­ties relat­ed to adopt­ing a risk man­age­ment approach and imple­ment­ing pre­ven­tive mea­sures. Based on knowl­edge gained through these two steps, the team will orga­nize work­ing groups with munic­i­pal actors to co-con­struct or improve their prac­tices, tools and gov­er­nance mech­a­nisms for risk man­age­ment and fire prevention.

At the end of the project, the prin­ci­pal actors will be able to bet­ter inte­grate risk man­age­ment and use evi­dence in their every­day prac­tice, based on analy­sis of the Québec mod­el and lessons from oth­er countries.