Public Attitudes Toward Policy Instruments for Flood Risk Management.

Effective flood risk management (FRM) requires a mix of policy instruments that reduces, shares, and manages flood risk. The social acceptability of these policy instruments-the degree of public support or opposition to their use-is an important consideration when designing an optimal mix to achieve FRM objectives. This paper examines public attitudes toward FRM policy instruments based on a national survey of Canadians living in high-risk areas.

Evaluating the quality of municipal strategic plans.

Local governments increasingly use strategic planning as a tool to anticipate and address the complex challenges they face. Strategic planning is the process of setting long-term goals, prioritizing actions to achieve the goals, and mobilizing human and financial resources to execute the actions. Although there has been considerable debate about the appropriate scope, content, and procedures for strategic planning in local government, less attention has been paid to the quality of municipal strategic plans, meaning the presence or absence of key characteristics that analysts typically associate with good plans.

Assessing social vulnerability and identifying spatial hotspots of flood risk to inform socially just flood management policy.

This study presents the first nationwide spatial assessment of flood risk to identify social vulnerability and flood exposure hotspots that support policies aimed at protecting high-risk populations and geographical regions of Canada. The study used a national-scale flood hazard dataset (pluvial, fluvial, and coastal) to estimate a 1-in-100-year flood exposure of all residential properties across 5721 census tracts. Residential flood exposure data were spatially integrated with a census-based multidimensional social vulnerability index (SoVI) that included demographic, racial/ethnic, and socioeconomic indicators influencing vulnerability.

Exploring spatial heterogeneity and environmental injustices in exposure to flood hazards using geographically weighted regression.

This study explores flood-related environmental injustices by deconstructing racial, ethnic, and socio-demographic disparities and spatial heterogeneity in the areal extent of fluvial, pluvial, and coastal flooding across Canada. The study integrates JBA Risk Management's 100-year Canada Flood Map with the 2016 national census-based socioeconomic data to investigate whether traditionally recognized vulnerable groups and communities are exposed inequitably to inland (e.g.

How Flood Experience and Risk Perception Influences Protective Actions and Behaviours among Canadian Homeowners.

Canada is a country in the midst of a flood management policy transition that is shifting part of the flood damage burden from the state to homeowners. This transition-as well as the large financial losses resulting from flooding-have created a window of opportunity for Canada to implement strategies that increase property owners' capacity to avoid and absorb the financial and physical risks associated with flooding. This work presents foundational research into the extent to which Canadians' flood experience, perceptions of flood risks and socio-demographics shape their intentions and adoption of property level flood protection (PLFP).