Providing municipalities with the tools they In 2020 project partners met with need to make better climate mitigation and transportation planners and experts to share adaptation choices is the focus of this PICS and gather data relevant to the project They research partnership involving the City of also met with land use planners to explore Victoria and UVic that started in April 2020 potential le. [...] performance and climate adaptation, while tools are now publicly available on the PICS stakeholders at BC Housing and the Ministry of minimizing those that create conflicts between website, and are being piloted on affordable Environment and Climate Change the two paradigms housing and other projects The tools were The long-term goal is that the IBAMA framework developed in recognition of the chal. [...] University of Waterloo, Wageningen University in the Netherlands and West Coast Environmental Nations, who face resourcing and legislative Law The “solution seeker” partners in the barriers to planning beyond their own boundaries project include the City of Surrey, City of Vancouver, District of Squamish, Squamish With the scale and frequency of coastal flooding Nation (Skwxwú7mesh), Tsleil-Wautut. [...] and transportation policies patterns and pressures, in both cases, deep retrofits including both the shell and building The PICS Energy Efficiency in the Built “The City of Victoria technology had by far the biggest impact Environment project has capped off its sixth and is committed to creating This means that simple measures such as final full year with the release of two studies in 2020 that sh. [...] as climate change? This question and others Strengthening workshops, an offering related to the interconnectedness of risk and CRISIS, UBC Here is a snapshot of the events under the PICS Research Engagement how the pandemic sheds light on the role of Combining insights from psychology, PICS led or co-hosted in 2020.
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