Geography 2152F/G : Peterborough Floods Guest Lecture.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Geography
• Course: Geography 2152F/G
• Professor: Bharat Punjabi

Document Summary

Criteria for inclusion: meets at least one of the following: 100 or more people affected, injured, evacuated or homeless. Most expensive disaster for canadian insurance companies: 1998 ontario and quebec ice storm. billion: may 15, 2011 wildfire in slave lake, alberta. 400 homes destroyed and 7000 evacuated: august 19, 2005 heavy rainfall in the gta/ontario. Created in 1997 by canadian insurers to address rising natural disaster losses. Project-based funding by various levels of government. 30+ scientists associated with iclr: engineering, social sciences, atmospheric sciences and geophysics. Focus on disaster mitigation and prevention: climate change adaption. Initially supported by local governments to show commitment to the principles of democratic governance. These democratic principles include the rights of the citizen to be informed and have the opportunity to participate in decision making. Despite increasing costs associated with hazards, it has been difficult for governments to generate high levels of citizen participation in hazard mitigation efforts.