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Storm surge event at North Rustico Harbour, Prince Edward Island.

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A continuum of green (“soft”) to gray (“hard”) shoreline stabilization techniques.

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Rock revetment, combined with beach openings, used to protect the highway embankment at the entrance to Fundy National Park in Alma, New Brunswick, at low tide.

Figure 1.5

Intertidal reefs at low tide in Souris, Prince Edward Island, July 2018.

Figure 1.6

Aerial views of early-stage tidal wetland habitat recovery (brown mudflat areas) at a) Belcher Street managed realignment site, near the Cornwallis River in NS, in September 2018 (four months post-breach); and b) Aerial view of developing intertidal habitat at the Converse managed realignment site in August 2019 (eight months post-breach). Arrows indicate location of realigned dyke.

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Three examples of vulnerable coastal roads in Newfoundland and Labrador. a) Dead-end road that extends west from the community of O’Donnells, Newfoundland and Labrador, which was eroded following several storm events between 2007 and 2011. The road is no longer being maintained. b) The road that formerly followed the crest of the barachois in Clements Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador, which has now been abandoned following several wash-over events that took place between 1990 and 2010. The displaced guardrails remain. c) The breakwater that protects the tombolo road in Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, was damaged frequently as a result of storm events between 1989 and 2010, and necessitated periodic reconstruction and maintenance.

Figure 1.8

The Acadian Peninsula, northeastern New Brunswick.

Figure 1.9

Damage caused by the 2017 ice storm in the Acadian Peninsula.

Figure 1.10

Map of attributes in natural and built environments within Middleton, Nova Scotia and their cooling or heating influence. Attributes considered include water regime, aspect, air circulation and surface materials.

Figure 1.11

Location of facilities relative to “hot” areas in Middleton, Nova Scotia. Some facilities support vulnerable populations, including the elderly or people with long-term care needs. Other areas are spaces for outdoor recreation, with exposure to sun and heat.

Figure 1.12

Map of Dissemination Areas in Nova Scotia showing levels of social vulnerability, based on a Social Vulnerability Index (SVI). The inset map from a coastal community illustrates the integration of the SVI mapping with a proxy representation (i.e., the dark blue overlay) of projected worst-case relative sea-level rise and storm-surge flooding to 2100. The inset map also shows a count of residential buildings and the distribution of roads within the proxy flood area.

Figure 1.13

Kouchibouguac Archaeological Sites Map.

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Managed Acadian forests in Nova Scotia.

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Network diagrams were used to display the relationships between qualities of collaboration in the process and achieved outcomes in the Tantramar/Chignecto Climate Change Adaptation Collaborative case study. The bold lines highlight linkages that were selected most often by participants, indicating the qualities (blue) that were considered to be the most influential for informing certain outcomes from the collaboration (red). The qualities and outcomes closer to the centre of the diagram are those that were deemed by participants as being most important.

Figure 4.1

Map of the Ecozones of the Prairie Provinces also showing the Aboriginal Lands of Canada Legislative Boundaries, and major cities, rivers, and lakes.

Figure 4.2

Economic impacts of the most damaging extreme weather events to date in the Prairie provinces. Costs represent insured losses in 2018 $. Total costs are generally much higher.

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Visual representation of key adaptation measures from Calgary’s Flood Resilience Plan. The plan uses a three-layered approach:

  1. Upstream flood protection on the Bow and Elbow Rivers to increase water storage and help slow larger flows from the mountains
  2. Community-level flood protection through the installation and upgrading of permanent infrastructure, and
  3. Property-level flood protection through changes to building regulations and bylaws, limiting types of development in flood-prone areas and public education.
Figure 4.7

The 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire.

Figure 4.8

Approaches considered by the Bow River Basin Working Group for reducing flood impacts.

Figure 4.9

The process used by the Athabasca River Basin Working Group to move from increasing understanding of the Athabasca River basin to developing a roadmap for sustainable water management (AIRM: Athabasca Integrated River Model; PM: Performance Measures).

Figure 4.10

Comparison between spring wheat yield anomalies (e.g., departures from the trend) and growing season Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) for the Swift Current Creek Watershed in Saskatchewan.

Figure 4.11

Considerations in building climate resilience in the City of Calgary. This figure has been used to build climate literacy with multiple stakeholders.