Author: Canadian Council of Professional Engineers
Year of publication: 2008
Available languages: English, Spanish, Portoguese, Vietnamese
Type of assessment: Vulnerability assessment
Format of assessment: Report
Estimated costs for conducting: No information
Estimated duration of assessment: 15 months
To be carried out by whom: Others
Details: Professional engineers, government decision-makers
Institutional scale of use: National
Assesment to be used by which target audience: State level decision makers
Details: National decision makers
Output: Report
Region of origin: North America
Developed by which sector: Private sector
Applied in practice: Yes
Geographic coverage in analysis: North America
Potential geographic coverage: Canada
Sectors covered: Infrastructure
Details: Public infrastructure
Method used: Mixed method approach
Description of methodology: Scoping study, pilot study, six case studies, national workshop
Risk framework used: No explicit use of risk framework
Risk components incorporated: Vulnerability
Details: Differentiation of high vulnerability and moderate vulnerability
Hazards and impacts considered in the assessment: Extreme rainfall, Sea level rise, Storm surge, Flood, Extreme temperatures, Drought, Storm, Cold spell, Changing precipitation patterns
Source of required data: Primary and secondary
Details: Infrastructure data, climate data and climate change projections
Temporal scale: Current, Forward looking
Participatory elements: Yes
Details: National workshop
Consideration of interconnectedness and -dependencies of risks: No
Adressing uncertainty: No
Scope of assessment: Identification of risks, assessment of impacts, identification of adaptation options
Economic/Non-Economic losses incorporated: No information
Applicability for entire risk spectrum (from extreme weather events to slow onset processes): No information
Recommendations for Adaptation measures included in Climate Risk Assessment: Yes
Details: Assess the need for changes to standard engineering practices to account for adaptation to climate change
Usefulness for political purposes: In the seven case studies and this report, a clear distinction is made between vulnerability and engineering vulnerability. In the broadest sense, vulnerability includes a wide range of factors that may affect the resiliency of a system, including engineering considerations; political decision-making; socio-economic factors; the risk tolerances of the affected populations and stakeholders and how this motivates political processes
Applied by whom: Canadian Council of Professional Engineers
Open access: Yes