Supporting Residents During Floods
What Municipalities Need to KnowSupporting Residents During Floods: What municipalities need to know
Cities are often on the front lines when it comes to responding to residents’ concerns about flooding. As flood events increase with climate change, more cities are proactively helping residents understand flood risks and take action to protect themselves and their property.
Supporting Residents During Floods: What municipalities need to know is designed to help municipalities support residents in flood-resilient construction and retrofit projects. It provides a compilation of relevant information, highlights existing municipal flood prevention initiatives across Canada, and offers various starting points to take action. It also summarizes reflections that emerged while conducting the literature review and a series of 16 interviews with various Canadian municipalities while developing the guide to advance the ongoing national discussion on flood resilience.
This guide was produced as part of the Living With Water Project, which aims to promote the large-scale adoption of construction and retrofit practices adapted to all flooding types across Canada. The guide was specifically designed to help small and medium-sized municipalities in Canada better understand, analyze, prepare for and take action during floods. It is meant to be used by municipal staff and stakeholders involved in municipal flood planning and management. Since the guide does not follow a linear structure, we recommend skipping to the sections that are most valuable to you.
About the Living With Water Project
The Living With Water Project is led by Architecture Without Borders Quebec, in collaboration with the Cité-ID LivingLab of the École nationale d’administration publique, and ICLEI Canada, and is carried out with the contribution of Écohabitation, the Université de Sherbrooke, the National Research Council Canada, the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), and the cities of Longueuil, Montreal, Laval and Quebec.
This guide was developed through the Living With Water Project—a project funded as part of the Building for the Future cycle of the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) Housing Supply Challenge.
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