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Home / 2020 / October / 26 / Documentary Debut: Building Okanagan Resiliency Utilizing Natural Assets

Documentary Debut: Building Okanagan Resiliency Utilizing Natural Assets

By Sarah Sutherland on October 26, 2020

 

On October 21, 2020, Entrepreneurship@UBCO premiered the first virtual Leadership Forum event of the year, “Building Okanagan Flood Resiliency”, in partnership with Lawson Lundell, the Okanagan Sustainability Leadership Council, City of Kelowna, Okanagan Nation Alliance, Peachland Watershed Protection Alliance, Okanagan Basin Water Board, City of Gibsons, Regional District Central Okanagan, and Municipal Natural Assets Initiative.

Could nature provide low-cost ‘infrastructure’ solutions to our flooding challenges?

For a growing number of forward-thinking governments across Canada, including Gibsons and Kelowna, British Columbia – the answer is yes. Flood prevention and quality drinking water depend, in large part, on aging and depreciating engineering infrastructure assets. Climate change and outdated industry practices are putting even further strain on these critical systems.

Hear from municipal leaders, environmental experts, and researchers on how natural assets projects have reduced aging infrastructure replacement costs, mitigated risks, and improved community liveability. Plus, learn about the vulnerability assessment tools, Indigenous studies, modelling techniques, and natural resiliency strategies in development to protect our region.

Posted in Feature Posts, Program News | Tagged clear cutting, climate change, climate resiliency, drought, First Nations, forest fires, forestry, indigenous, indigenous TEK, infrastructure, natural capital assets, TEK, traditional ecological knowledge, urban planning, water quality, watershed

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